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Continue reading →: Luxury Meter: Come Home to IndiaIt’s an encouraging sign for the Indian luxury industry that the country is burgeoning into a hub of not just eager buyers of established brands but also creators and manufacturers of the world’s finest luxury goods.
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Continue reading →: Sanya Dhir: The Sari’s New CrusaderSanya Dhir – a theatre aficionado with several acclaimed performances under her belt – gets all excited when she talks about the brand’s mid-level line, Elements by Sanya Dhir. Designed for working urban women, the line offers zip-on saris, pre-pleated and stitched saris, sari ensembles that can be worn with…
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Continue reading →: Yasho Saboo: Keeping a Close WatchChance plays a big role in Yashovardhan Saboo’s narrative. When the current CEO of Saboo Business Group was a year old learning to walk in his birthplace, Kolkata, his father decided to set up a manufacturing business and went to meet the then chief minister of Punjab for suitable land…
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Continue reading →: Diva Editorial, April 2013Last August in the football-crazed town of Steubenville in Ohio, US, a 16-year-old girl passed out drunk (and possibly drugged) at a high-school party. What followed was even more telling of regressive, violent mindsets that aren’t confined to developing countries.
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Continue reading →: Luxury Meter: India’s Italian ConnectionIndia and Italy – co-protagonists in Elizabeth Gilbert’s bestselling memoir Eat, Pray, Love – could learn a thing or two from each other at this passionate love-hate stage of their relationship.
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Continue reading →: Shreyas, Bangalore: A Journey into SilenceWith a task force of 65 persons, the resort offers just 14 rooms that can accommodate a maximum of 25 guests. A guest to staff ratio like that ensures quality service besides attention to detail that defies expectation.
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Continue reading →: Fine Wine, Broken BottleTo become a global powerhouse, while we work full-steam on showcasing our talents, we also need to urgently work on our flaws. It is not difficult – India, after all, has the raw materials required for truly splendorous work.
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Continue reading →: Diva Editorial, March 2013Sure, it is possible to pursue a career you are passionate about while also being there for your kids. Possible, yes, but also fantastically difficult.
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Continue reading →: Lori Deschene: Doing the Buddha’s WorkThe woman behind Tiny Buddha is Lori Deschene, part Italian, part French and all American. “I find a lot of peace and strength in Buddhist teachings, but I take pieces from many religions and spiritual traditions.”
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Continue reading →: There’s a Mother-in-Law in My BedIt’s your everyday middle-class Indian home. A young couple, married for a couple of years, are waking up to a rainy morning. The wife cuddles up to the husband for a quick peck before pushing him out of bed first – she takes longer in the bathroom and prefers going…
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Continue reading →: Monali Saraiya: All Sexed UpAfter 15 years in the apparel industry, Monali Shah Saraiya took a detour for sex. Not just the kind you have with your partner in your bedroom (though she’ll admit there was a bonus there too), but the kind that can spice up the lives of thousands of other couples…
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Continue reading →: Luxury Meter: Treading a Fine LineIt’s nice to have foreign luxury brands available at our doorstep, sweet that they create collections especially for us, flattering that they woo us with limited editions, even turning a blind eye to our lack of good taste at times. But there’s a fine line between customization and conversion.
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Continue reading →: Diva editorial, February 2013If we want to be safe ourselves, we cannot ignore gender violence anywhere, on any woman, in any part of the city, village, country, world. Every time we close our eyes to news stories on sexual violence, which sit on our breakfast table with depressing regularity, we bring the demon…
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Continue reading →: The Aborted Truth: How India Deals with MTPHow well have we used our ‘progressive’ abortion laws, really? How far have they helped women and our cause? How effective are we in disseminating information about safe abortion and in empowering women about their maternal health rights? When it comes to the wall between pro-choice and pro-life, where do…
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Continue reading →: Lina Ashar: iPad Kids and Facebook ParentsBrought up in Africa and England, and trained to be an educationist in Australia, Lina Ashar was appalled by the state of education in even the most advanced Indian schools when she returned to her motherland to ‘settle down’ and raise a family. Her intense desire to bring about change…
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