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Ambika Singh,PhD

Hi, I am a writer and content strategist based in India. I write about popular culture, education, international societies, human dilemmas, health, and well-being. Familiarity bores me. So, I love speaking with people from countries, cultures, and trades I know nothing or little about. Write to me at ambika0587singh@gmail.com

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The Myth of the French Girl Aesthetic

The Truth About the French Girl Aesthetic (From Someone Who Fell for It)

A couple of years ago, sometime around 2015, I fell into a very specific corner of the internet. It was…

Celebrities…

Curious about Celebrity Net Worth? You Make Me Very Curious!

27 Aug 202228 Aug 2022
There is a problem with me. Something that makes me curious can get stuck in my head for days on end—until I have found the right answer (or the answer…
careers…

Malcolm Gladwell and I Have Something in Common

21 Aug 202227 Mar 2024
Thanks to the clickbait-y title, you are here. But wait, don’t leave yet because Malcolm Gladwell and I really have something in common. We are joined by our mutual love…
Elizabeth Gilbert…

From the Diary of an Elizabeth Gilbert Fangirl: Part 1

15 Aug 2022
Elizabeth Gilbert’s bestselling manual on creativity, Big Magic is a book I love but I am not talking about that here. And I am also not talking about her famous memoir, Eat Pray…
Health…

Schedule Downtime to Beat Revenge Bedtime Procrastination

5 Aug 202212 May 2026
The solution to procrastination seems to be pretty simple till the time the procrastinator is only avoiding a task with a deadline. For instance, for me, just starting work on…
autoimmune diseases…

Did Covid19 Trigger My Autoimmune Disease?

1 Aug 202214 May 2026
My Pandemic Woes . . . During the first wave of the Covid19 pandemic in India, my husband and I contracted the infection. While he recovered quickly, my body got…
careers…

What’s Job-Readiness? Is it Fair to View Education with such a Myopic Vision?

31 Jul 202231 Jul 2022
  I stand on the balcony of our first-floor flat every morning and stare at a humongous billboard: an advertisement for a large private university on the city’s outskirts that…
Literature, books, and films…

Why the Cockroach Janta Party Made Franz Kafka Trend Again — Even Though He Never Wrote About a Cockroach

22 May 202622 May 2026
The internet cannot tolerate ambiguity for longer than forty-eight hours. Franz Kafka left the creature in The Metamorphosis deliberately unnamed. Social media identified the species by lunchtime. Which is why…
Personal/ Autobiographical…

Why AI Cannot Replace the Human Need to Write: Writing as Consciousness in the Age of AI

11 May 202611 May 2026
Long before I understood writing as an art, or even as a skill, I treated it as a private necessity. At just seven or eight years old, after arguments with…
Personal/ Autobiographical…

Do You Know Your Mom’s Favorite Food?

9 May 20269 May 2026
What’s your mother’s favorite food? You should be able to answer that in under thirty seconds—without pausing, without second-guessing yourself, without mentally flipping through a list of dishes she’s made…
Health…

Mel Robbins Backlash: From the ‘Let Them Theory’ Controversy to Asking Women to Upload Financial Documents — What It Reveals About Modern Self-Help

7 May 20269 May 2026
So, all is not well in the universe of Mel Robbins, it seems. Self-help gurus have to walk an unusually fragile line. Their business is built on packaging wisdom that…
Global Jewelry Trends…

What Your Jewellery Says About You—And Why It Has Less to Do With You Than You Think

2 May 20263 May 2026
I thought jewellery was a matter of personal taste. Then I asked people around the world what they actually wear. It began with a question that felt almost trivial: what…
Celebrities…

Raghav Chadha, ‘Gaddar,’ and the Global Politics of Calling Someone a Traitor

27 Apr 202627 Apr 2026
In politics, some words invite debate; others shut it down. “Traitor” belongs to the second category. It does not merely accuse; it decides, at least rhetorically, who belongs and who…
Personal/ Autobiographical…

The Truth About the French Girl Aesthetic (From Someone Who Fell for It)

23 Apr 202627 Apr 2026
A couple of years ago, sometime around 2015, I fell into a very specific corner of the internet. It was filled with articles and videos about French girl aesthetic, French…
Literature, books, and films…

Netflix’s Unchosen: Unpacking the Cult Dynamics Behind the “Trad Wife” Trend

22 Apr 202624 Apr 2026
I chose to watch Unchosen on a whim—one of those quiet, instinctive decisions shaped by a few seconds of a Netflix preview and a gut feeling that this might be…
Personal/ Autobiographical…

Why Do I Write in English?My Relationship With My Second Language

1 Apr 20242 Apr 2024
I am a product of a Eurocentric education system. I am a citizen of a former British colony where "Angrez chaley gaye Angrezi chhod gaye" (the English left but left…
Celebrities…

I Am Not an Andrew Huberman Fan, But I Condemn Lazy Journalism Cancelling Him  

26 Mar 202427 Mar 2024
Opinion pieces that prompt me to reflect and write immediately are often hard to come by. In short, I would not be writing this article if I hadn’t read the painstakingly long…

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