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OUR SWEETEST LITTLE GIRL YARA HAS BEEN ADOPTED 🏠🩷
Honestly, we’ve been absolutely speechless for the last 2 days and no one’s been able to comprehend what’s happened

Yara was found lying listless, with her anus swollen, disfigured and bleeding on 21 January 2024.
Vets had confirmed that a blunt object had definitely penetrated her anus, probably an organ and vets lead us to believe that she is a victim of sexual assault.

@nihudives and @varshannaik reached out to me 6 months ago while I was fostering Yara and told me that they’d love to foster her and could commit for 6 months.
This was great because
1. It gave us more time to look for a home for Yara
2. I could foster more dogs
3. Yara could get used to a home setting which would help her adjust to her forever home

A week ago, their 6 month time commitment ended and 2 days ago, they sent us a message saying Yara wasn’t going anywhere and she was now a permanent part of their family.

@nihudives and @varshannaik you two are the best. I don’t know how to describe these two women except that they’re the loveliest , sweetest people ever. Yara has the best family.

To everyone involved in Yara’s rescue and rehabilitation, I’m so proud of us!

@taniee_d , @zanes.coffee @zanes.petspa , the racecourse group, @lokashi_pawfect , @pawdopt.in @rheachhabria , @zyng2.0 , @zeshah_d @dhrumiijain @plateandpintmumbai thank you so much for all your help sharing Yaru’s story!

And lastly, I want to thank little Yaru, for going through so much and still keeping her heart open to everyone. Yara has showed us that she’s not a sexual assault victim, she’s a sexual assault survivor and she’s the bravest little puppy I’ve ever met.

📸 by Vahram Adajania @va_creativespace taken in Mumbai, Maharashtra by @varshannaik

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2 years ago

Happy 2(6)th birthday to the light of my life, to my best friend, to someone who has become my person ♥️ I can’t even begin to think about the fact that I didn’t know you just a mere year ago. Ever since we met, you’ve filled my life with spontaneous dances, tabla tunes, warm cuddles, Sherlock marathons, quarantine video calls, old hindi song singing + wine drinking nights, hill station road trips, Box 8 meal choices, and endless love 🕺🏽🎶🤗📺📱🍷🥘❤️
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There are a multitude of things I adore about you - your kindness when we talk about my mental health, your patience when I’m trying to figure out some stupid tech problem with my computer, your heartwarming laugh when I crack the lewdest jokes, your smile when I give you a mushy compliment, and your confidence when you talk about our future together.
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It’s been a long time since I’ve felt this way about someone, and I’m so glad to have found you. I always thought that a relationship with someone very similar to you never works out, but I think we’re similar on the most important things in life and I love being on that same wavelength as you.
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So to my hilarious, goofy, kind, silly, magnetic, minimal, handsome, intelligent, compassionate, empathetic, hardworking, romantic, passionate, driven, accommodating, sexy, beautiful, talented, and loving boyfriend - enjoy the rest of your day, and please know how badly I wish I could be there to celebrate with you! 🥳🍾🎉💐🎁🎂🍫 taken in Laxmi Vilas Palace by @varshannaik

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6 years ago

Missing my best buddy in the whole world 🌏 My sister is killing it in Delhi, India and we now haven’t lived in the same place for 7 years. I was just thinking about how weird that’s been, considering we’re only a year and a half apart in age and have done basically EVERYTHING together since day 1. I love you @niharikanathanscott, and I miss you ❤️ Do you have siblings? And what’s your favourite thing about them? Share with me in the comments below, if you feel safe doing so ⬇️✨ taken in Wildflower Hall by @varshannaik

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#InstagramVsReality 💁🏾‍♀️ Who else has a ton of pictures saved up that they don’t want to post because the lighting is too harsh, or the crop messes up the framing, or the preset just doesn’t look right? 🙋🏾‍♀️ Well, I fiddled around with the harsh shadows on my face in the first picture for so long, but finally decided to just post it the way it originally looked 🙃 Some days my creative vision just works without a second thought and other days like today I choose to point out and accept the struggle 🤷🏾‍♀️ Both days are a win-win in my book! 📖 // 📸: @niharikanathanscott taken in Kochi, India by @varshannaik

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6 years ago

Let’s talk quarantine stress busters! 👊🏾💥 As a child, I used to always wait for the local newspaper and sit down with the ‘chai-break’ sections solving sudokus. A Sudoku is a Japanese 9x9 grid puzzle that is further divided into 3x3 sub grids. ‘Sudoku’ also translates to mean ‘single number’ 1️⃣2️⃣3️⃣4️⃣5️⃣6️⃣7️⃣8️⃣9️⃣
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Three places I’ve been constantly reaching to solve sudokus during this quarantine:
1. New York Times - type in “NYT Sudoku” in the google search bar and the first link that comes up should direct you to their daily free sudoku page where you can do 3 free ones organized by their difficulty ratings - easy, medium, hard.
2. www.sudoku.com has unlimited free sudokus that you can solve. The interface is super comprehensive, allowing you to make notes, as well as click and see all appearances of a specific number on the grid, making it faster to solve!
3. The Times Sudoku books that you can purchase, if you’re someone who prefers to write things out by hand. These books are available in a series. I have book 1 and 2 which are divided into 4 difficulty levels - easy, mild, difficult, fiendish. This option definitely has the most challenging puzzles of the lot! 🤓
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✏️ Quarantine Date Night Tip: Get on a zoom screen share and use the annotate function to solve some tough sudokus with your partner ❤️ @_parampurohit @mysmiley360 taken in Mumbai, Maharashtra by @varshannaik

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6 years ago

Who needs Sorrento when you have Shimla? Who needs Malta when you have Mashobra? My biggest travel regret is not getting to see more of my own beautiful country, growing up. I no longer need to see cute, colourful houses lining the shores of the Mediterranean Sea. I’m more than happy looking at them stacked one on top of the other disappearing into the peaks of expansive mountains 🏔 What are some of your favourite travel destinations that are closer to home? 🏡 // 📸: @niharikanathanscott taken in Shimla - The Queen Of Hills by @varshannaik

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6 years ago

#PurposeCosmeticsgiftedme their Sweet Strawberry Lip Scrub ($5.99), and it has GOT to be the most gentle lip scrub I've ever tried! They're also available in two other flavors - brown sugar and peppermint, and pair really well with the @purposecosmeticsco lip glosses 👄 The scrubs are formulated with mango seed, coconut and sunflower seed oils that help in exfoliating your lips, while retaining their natural hydration and moisture 💧
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✨ Fun Fact: Their founder is a black woman named Nia Grant who holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry. They also very sweetly sent me a personalized message once our collaboration was finalized and a personal discount code to share with you all! #supportblackbusinesses
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👄 COUPON CODE: Use VARSHA20 for 20% off your entire order.
Link to product: ‪https://www.octoly.com/c/hf8g3/r/hb897‬
#purposecosmeticsco #octolyfamily @octoly by @varshannaik

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Traveling, for me, instantaneously becomes 10x more fun if I have a rare experience. In the end of Feb this year, I went on a family vacation to Chandigarh, Amritsar, Shimla and to its surrounding hill stations 🏔 I was hoping we’d see snow in Shimla, since winter is my favourite season, but we were told by locals that the snow for the winter season was over and snowfall was highly unlikely. On the day that we were at an amusement park in Kufri, eating some delicious lunch inside a small cabin-like restaurant, was when I first spotted the flurries! ❄️ I was so excited and kept hoping that the snow would come down harder 🌨 It felt like nature had heard my pleas - there was so much snowfall in the next hour or so that we couldn’t even leave the restaurant to get to our car.
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Have you experienced a travel miracle like this before? Share your experiences with me in the comments below, if you feel safe doing so! ✨⬇️ // 📸: @niharikanathanscott taken in Wildflower Hall by @varshannaik

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#Clarinsgiftedme their RE-FRESH hydrating beauty mist ($20) that is suitable to revive and hydrate all skin types. I love products that have multiple uses and this one works great as a toner, as a makeup refreshing spray or just to spritz onto your skin for a pick me up all summer long ☀️
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Hero ingredients:
✨ Robinia - softens skin
✨ Coconut - nourishes skin with nutrients
✨ Alpenrose - flushes out toxins + pollutants from skin
✨ Fig - hydrates skin
✨ Acerola - boosts skin's radiance
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🌸 Pro-tip: This alcohol-free formula is super gentle, so you can also use it over your eyes when they're fatigued from all this screen time. It’s also phthalate, paraben, sulphate and cruelty free + vegan 🌱
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Link to product: ‪https://www.octoly.com/c/hf8g3/r/hb56p‬
@ClarinsUSA #MyClarins #octolyfamily by @varshannaik

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Starting off the new month being appreciative of and grateful for some of the creators on here that I’ve found recently. There’s always SO much to learn from them and they really are all about providing value through their content. I’ve been feeling so lucky for finding them and my inspiration to create better content 🥰
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@iiroshnii - follow them for their beautiful pink aesthetic and super detailed beauty/skincare reviews. They always add value to my skincare purchases by telling it like it is, without shying away from an honest, negative review, if a product just didn’t work for them.
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@shweguru - follow them for their great IG story editing tips full of tips from how to use the story interface to create unique stories + what to search if you want to find super cute gifs! They also share app recommendations to bump up your overall IG game and have a stunning brown aesthetic 🤎
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@ishanimitraa - I don’t know how this creator isn’t verified yet! They’re a genius when it comes to creative/bold makeup and posing ideas! They’re also ALWAYS willing to share their knowledge on video editing - something I’m really trying to learn over this quarantine. Go follow them! // 📸: @niharikanathanscott taken in Pristine Peaks Naldehra by @varshannaik

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A productivity tip I’ve learned in quarantine ✏️: I’ve barely been feeling super productive during the lockdown and the chores just seem to build up. But I’ve found doing tasks that take anywhere between 2-5 minutes RIGHT AWAY, has actually cleared a lot of items off of my to-do list.
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It also gives me enough time to do the tasks that are REALLY important during the sudden bursts of productivity that I do feel, leaving me with a number of things ticked off at the end of the day.
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What are some new productivity tips you have found yourself using during this time? Please comment below if you feel safe sharing! ⬇️ taken in Champaner-Pavagadh Archaeological Park by @varshannaik

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