…me in the red crepe. Picture carefully cropped, if you notice to exclude burgeoning corpus.
Aunty No 1.
I need to do the multiple bindis and the eye rolling as well now.
About Kiran Manral
Kiran Manral is a writer and major social media influencer. After quitting her full-time journalist’s job when her son was born, Kiran became a mommy blogger on the internet, with a remarkably original voice. She was a journalist at The Asian Age, The Times of India, features editor Cosmopolitan, India Cultural Lead and Trend spotter at Gartner Iconoculture US, Senior Consultant at Vector Insights, Ideas Editor, SheThePeople.TV. Kiran is currently a celebrated author and an independent research and media consultant.
She was shortlisted for the Femina Women Awards for Literary Contribution in 2017. The Indian Council of UN Relations (ICUNR) supported by the Ministry of Women and Children, Govt of India, awarded her the International Women’s Day Award 2018 for excellence in the field of writing. In 2021 she was awarded the Womennovator 1000 Women of Asia award. In 2022, she was named amongst the 75 Iconic Indian women in STEAM by Red Dot Foundation and Beyond Black, in collaboration with the Office of the Principal Scientific Advisor, Government of India, and British High Commission, New Delhi.
Her novella, Saving Maya, was long-listed for the 2018 Saboteur Award, supported by the Arts Council of England in the UK. Her novels 'The Face At the Window’ and ‘Missing, Presumed Dead were both long-listed for Jio MAMI Word to Screen, and ‘The Face at the Window’ was showcased at the South Asian Film Festival 2019. The Kitty Party Murder was shortlisted for the Popular Choice award at the 2021 JK Papers TOI AutHER awards.
Her other books include The Reluctant Detective, Once Upon A Crush, All Aboard, Karmic Kids-The Story of Parenting Nobody Told You, A Boy’s Guide to Growing Up, True Love Stories, 13 Steps to Bloody Good Parenting, Raising Kids with Hope and Wonder in Times of a Pandemic and Climate Change, More Things in Heaven and Earth and Rising: 30 Women Who Changed India. She also has published short stories in various magazines, in acclaimed anthologies like Have A Safe Journey, Boo, The Best Asian Speculative Fiction 2018, Grandpa’s Tales, Magical Women and City of Screams. Kiran lives in Mumbai with her family.
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Fortytwoandcounting 
Kiran, you look straight out of a Raja Ravi Varma painting!
Hope you had a good time and ate lots of modaks. I sure did! 🙂
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Kiran, you look straight out of a Raja Ravi Varma painting!
Hope you had fun and ate lots of modaks. I sure did! 🙂
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Kiran, you look straight out of a Raja Ravi Varma painting!
naturemagics.com/kerala-oil-paintings/hamsa-damayanthi.jpg
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/Lady-with-fruits_by_RRV.jpg
Hope you had fun and ate lots of modaks. I sure did! 🙂
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Kiran, you look straight out of a Raja Ravi Varma painting!
naturemagics DOT com/kerala-oil-paintings/hamsa-damayanthi.jpg
upload DOT wikimedia DOT org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/Lady-with-fruits_by_RRV.jpg
Hope you had fun and ate lots of modaks. I sure did! 🙂
Btw, I am not able to post links inside comments. Please replace the DOT by . to see the pictures
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Kiran – you’re looking good lady 🙂 And I’m sure as hell that’s not your MILs blouse !!! Is it ? 😉
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liar, liar pants on fire – from which angle are you supposed to look fat? and old? you are looking gorgeous, and loving and vibrant.
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Did you hear me whistle just now 😉
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Hey!! That’s such a nice pic. So you’ve been lying to us all this while? 😉
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you look gorgeous!
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wow….you look so regal. Madhuri D et Tisca Chopra have SERIOUS competition.
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Nice! The Tisca Chopra resemblance is rather pronounced!
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You look lovely!
May I implore you to spill the beans about your lovely skin?I would die to have such a shiny smooth complexion 😦
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I’m going to take all your self criticism and whining with a pinch, nay a tbsp of salt henceforth! 😀
Liar! Love the color on you, your blouse is impeccable.
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Hawt Aunty 😀
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Next time you call yourself fat, we all are going to stomp on you!!
Liar, you look really good.
And and your hair…not grey not thinning not anything
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nice. we like it 🙂
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Lady K , you look gorgeous and so out of a Ravi Varma painting like someone earlier commented .what’s with the Aunty bit ?
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Wow, Kiran! As gorgeous as ever:)
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😀 you love to lie about yourself haan? gorgeous is the word K!
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agga baaiii – kitti chaan diste 🙂
Sorry…Ganpati Bappa Morya time brings out the ghaati in me (I’m 100% Sindhi though…)
Good choice on the crepe…way more comfy than tissue 😉
Pretty colour too…
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k, you look regal!
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So Kiran, all the time when you say you are fat, you are comparing yourself to…………??????
You look gorgeous. MIL’s blouse notwithstanding 😉
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