Why TikTok’s ‘becoming Chinese’ trend has everyone boiling apples, drinking hot water, and romanticising winter wellness

If your For You Page has suddenly swapped dance challenges for steaming mugs, simmering apples, and people whispering about “warm energy”, do not panic. You have not broken the algorithm. You have simply entered your “becoming Chinese” era. TikTok has entered its cosy era This viral TikTok trend is less about identity and more about…

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‘My brother’s death changed everything’: The story of 30-year old Pooja Sharma who has cremated 4000 unclaimed dead bodies |

At an age when most women are getting married, building careers, or planning families, Pooja Sharma spends her days cremating unclaimed dead bodies. Born into a middle-class family in Shahdara, Delhi, Pooja completed a master’s degree in social work and was working as an HIV counsellor at a government hospital. At the time, Pooja was…

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