ON MOST mornings, Shyamla Kashyap sits by her bedroom window in Surat, a protein shake in one hand, a phone in the other. The ritual is small but precise: she scrolls through Reddit ,where strangers trade stories about transformation.

For the past four months, Kashyap — 38, once an IT professional, then a banker, now the co-founder of a modest laundry delivery start-up — has been part of a growing congregation: Indians bound by a shared fascination with a new class of weight-loss drugs. Three subreddits, 2 lakh members, and a common vocabulary of milligrams, side effects, and hope.

Two weeks ago, she shared a side-by-side photo of herself in a pink gym T-shirt, one month apart — the same pose, the same mirror, the same woman, only lighter. The caption read: “One month on 7.5 mg of Mounja

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