The great Indian festival
I was once asked to describe a festival. I thought for a while, and then replied, ‘Shopping!’ ‘What? Shopping?’ said this friend and raised a questioning brow. ‘Festivals are all about joy,’ I said, ‘they are as much about sharing as they are about buying. There is a lot of happiness being given and accepted....
Bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style
Just take a short walk in and around psyches and you’ll discover that even simplicity gets a better acceptance if it adopts a unique style. However, there is always a certain price to be paid when people want to be perceived as ‘bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style’. This is one tag that cannot...
Being Trendy
‘You’re out to create waves of a new trend today,’ said Paromita to Prem when she saw him wearing his favourite head buff. Prem is a mountaineer barely out of his teens, who is forever rushing to every climbable peak in the world to give his giggling adrenalin a reason to remain calm. Paromita is...
The smiling side of life
Life smiles when we get more than we expect out of it. There is a twinkle in the eyes, the eyebrows arch like a ballerina does, the nostrils quiver with excitement and the lips seem to forget every other emotion than what we call a smile. When this happens, all the hormones in the body...
There’s quite a bit of magic in shopping
Ah, shopping! A magic far beyond all we do here! Most of my past moments that keeping popping up as memories have a lot to do with walks down any of the markets, looking wistfully at the windows full of dreams. From Jhansi to Dehradun, from Delhi to London, from Seoul to Sydney… shops and...
