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Wednesday, July 23, 2025
TopicFat shaming

Topic: fat shaming

A message for Zerodha founder Nithin Kamath: your ‘health programme’ is fatphobic

Ensuring the fitness of your employees is great, but there are better ways to do it. Zerodha founder Nitin Kamath's 'initiative' is beyond unscientific.

Fat tax — What you didn’t know clothing brands are charging you for

After being called out by fashion watchdog Diet Sabya, brands like Gauri and Nainika and Fuel are now owning up to the practice of discriminatory pricing.

Nancy Pelosi’s fat-shaming of Donald Trump shows bigotry exists in liberal camp too

It is often hard to defend Donald Trump, even when he has been wronged. But here's why Nancy Pelosi calling him 'morbidly obese' is also a major issue.

Adele to Katrina Kaif — Stop obsessing about ‘revenge bodies’, it just shows fatphobia

When singer Adele posted a picture of herself on Instagram on her birthday, little would she have known that her fans would only praise her weight-loss.

Why the Indian middle class thinks fat shaming is cool

Fat shaming often rests on rotten ground and unfounded beliefs that lead to unwarranted biases and trauma.

On Camera

Air India crash report shows an institutional reform of AAIB and aviation ministry is in order

The civil aviation ministry could have recognised the enormity of the Air India crash and prepared the AAIB and its investigating team for its sensitivities.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.