1. You no longer feel like you’re just out of college

2. You are 20 kgs heavier than when you were 20 but you feel very slim

3. You will never have time to do all that you have to or want to

4. You are wise and you have given up trying – there’s a long long ‘To-do’ list which will never go away

5. The Loreal representative at the local mall tries to get you to buy more natural looking hair dye – even though you don’t dye your hair

6. Even the Bhaji-walla who used to call you Baby, then Didi, then Bhabhi, now calls you Auntie

For the non-Indian:

The Bhaji-walla is the vegetable vendor

They call all children Baba(boys) or Baby(girls), all young women Didi (elder sister), the not so young women Bhabhi(sister-in-law) and Auntie is just one step away from Nani – which means grandmother – a title you get when you look like, or are a senior citizen.