If you are a makeup junkie, then a lipstick certainly makes a big portion of your makeup collection. But tell me, how many of you have bought a lipstick at a store inclining to its colour and never used it with the reason being, it did not suit your face or made it look dull. […]
Falling and Feeling, with or without a Sibling
Remember the very famous TV Soap, Hum Panch?sibling I grew up watching it and always thought having a sister would be a cool thing! Those sisters were so different from one another yet so united against the world. They always had each other’s back and were together in all the mischief. It all looked so […]
Carol Hanlon – a FashionPreneur
With more than 45 years in the fashion industry, Carol Hanlon is something of design and small-business Guru. Carol’s extensive entrepreneurial life began in the late 1960s in the famousFlinders Lane, Melbourne and later in Geelong, Victoria. From 1973 to 1993,she ran her own fashion design business, managing design, manufacturing,wholesale, retail and export components by […]
The Power Struggle
We sometimes hear parents say that “They are unable to control their child” and that they are frustrated with their child’s behavior and that their child doesn’t listen to their orders and commands.power But tell me what we are and who are our children? Are kids meant to be imposed upon? Are they to be […]
Motherhood
It’s nothing like a filtered capture on social media – well-behaved babies or an organized home stocked with educational toys.motherhood The naive pre-baby me never knew that motherhood is raw. Being a mother is the most exhausting, emotional, rewarding and life-enhancing journey with its own set of challenges. The little creature does not come with […]
Food or No Food
What’s the new diet in the market?food I am bewildered with the presence of fad diets our economy is dumped with. Every meal, every item in the refrigerator demands a huge amount of explanation from my husband and brother. What happened to my mom’s way of cooking and serving up a delicious scrumptious meal? Are […]
Thriving Relationships
It was 2016. We were returning home after attending a birthday party. While entering the building, I met my husband’s distant relative. She was surprised to see me and asked what was I doing there. “We shifted here last month, aunty,” I said. She replied, “Oh, I will come to meet your mother-in-law. I met […]
Fashion for Thought
My love for fashion and brands, unfortunately, does not take away the impact that fast fashion has on the ecology. Fast fashion uses large scale production and uses synthetic fibres that are responsible for the release of untreated effluents. The current pandemic has made me more socially aware of the environmental cost of our love […]
Unmasked
Unmasked Unlock 1 it’s being called, Unlock 1!!It’s becoming the norm to haveNumericals with name, fashionable perhaps!I ventured out after eighty odd days,The sight bewildered, hit me hard.Made me want to run home and hide.Chaotic traffic was back, people wereFreely gossiping at road ends, latest Covid figures, not cricket scores, mind you! Every day TV […]
Chocolate Cake using curd
Ingredients : Maida-140 gm or 1/2 cupOR(Whole wheat flour-90gm + Maida-40 gm orWhole wheat flour- 1 cup+ Maida-1/2 cup Thick Curd-150 gm or 1 cup Sugar- 100 gm or 3/4 cup Refined Oil- 65gm or 1/2 cup Cocoa Powder-2 tbsp Cornflour- 2 tsp Baking Powder- 1tsp Baking Soda-1/2 tsp Vanilla Essence- 1tsp Method : Sift […]