# Growing Up With An Eye Condition & Can Vegans Do This?

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Podcast: [The Romesh Ranganathan Show](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-romesh-ranganathan-show-7480336)
Published: 2026-07-01T23:01:00+00:00
Episode link: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/GLT4205480546.mp3
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Duration seconds: 2018

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Can Shanthi solve your life problems... and give you the perfect masala dosa recipe? Shanthi's back answering your questions, but not before revealing the mantras she lives by, how she rebuilt her happiness and why staying busy is the secret to a good life. Elsewhere, Romesh shares the advice he'd give his younger self, Shanthi teaches us how to make her famous masala dosa, and the listener dilemmas spiral from awkward parenting moments to one of the strangest vegan questions we've ever received. A Ranga Bee Production in partnership with Platform. Chapters 00:00 Intro 00:39 Mantras and happiness 03:16 Romesh explains Alice And Steve 05:26 Answering your questions 10:41 Shanthi’s Masala Dosa recipe 12:27 Romesh’s advice to his younger self 16:09 Awkward parent questions 23:44 A sausage sucking question 29:12 Outro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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