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Continue reading →: Book Review: The Weight Loss Club (fiction) by Devapriya RoyWritten with insight, compassion and wit, the interwoven stories in the book grow on you, tugging both your funny bone and your heartstrings, until you find yourself hooked to the end. For those who cannot resist 21st-century urban fairy tales, this one is a clincher.
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Continue reading →: Why Some Lifestyle Mags Die, and Some Don’tAs part of the launch team of Marie Claire in India, I was full of google-eyed dreams of responsible journalism, saving Indian women from their sad plights, and heart-wrenching writing that would drive my readers to goose-bumps. Soon, however, tubes of expensive lip gloss and designer sunglasses found their way…
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Continue reading →: A Parody of FeminismThe recent FICCI YFLO conference was less Great Expectations and more Bleak House.
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Continue reading →: Sanjana Chauhan: Million Dollar AdviceWhen Sanjana Chauhan, former head of marketing for DLF Emporio, left her job to move with her husband to New York, some of the brands she’d worked with suggested she continue working with them as a consultant for their India operations. And that’s how LuxuryNext, a consultancy service for international…
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Continue reading →: Hästens Beds: The Art of SleepFive generations on, the Jansen family in Sweden have continued to master their craft, added decades of research, bettered their production methods to such an extent that they can now claim to be the world’s most superior beds. Ever.
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Continue reading →: Muzaffar Ali: Fashioning His Own FaithThe award-winning maker of the 1981 classic Umrao Jaan, Muzaffar Ali admits feeling nervous every time he has to attend a big launch, whether a book release or a fashion show. But a film premiere is the most difficult of them all.
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Continue reading →: All in Support Say AyeSupporting the working woman is of pressing importance today, when it is increasingly clear that women’s health and wealth is linked with the health and wealth of a nation.
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Continue reading →: Scotch Single Malts in India: Living the Distiller’s DreamWhilst the single-malt community in India is still a relatively niche segment, there has no doubt been significant growth in certain categories. The consumer has, in fact, changed so much that Scottish single-malt distillery Glenmorangie, owned by world luxury giant LVMH, recently set up the India chapter of their elite…
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Continue reading →: Kota Neelima: An Unequal Democracy“I study protests, anger,” says Kota Neelima, her eyes smiling with a brightness that only comes after much self-study. A senior journalist and a research fellow at John Hopkins University, Washington DC, Neelima admits that she specialises in “anti-politics”.
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Continue reading →: Diva Editorial, June 2013This is going to sound outrageously implausible but I can’t believe how much I have in common with Angelina Jolie and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan.
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Continue reading →: Luxury Meter: When Money is TimeWhen you’ve got it all, it is time that becomes a luxury. And in a delightful contrast to the stereotype of cigar-toting businessmen in old Hollywood movies dismissing wannabes with, “Time is money, honey”, the scenario today is brilliantly ironic: Those with money spending barrels to buy someone else’s time.
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Continue reading →: Luxury Gifting Alternative: The Experience of a LifetimeLuxury retailers have long known that an experience scores higher in EQ and recall value than just a product, and so they’ve created entire universes around their offerings.
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Continue reading →: Nicolas de Barry: Of Scent and TasteWhile Nicolas de Barry may have been born in the French capital, he believes he was reborn into perfumery in Brazil. The former diplomat – he served as cultural attaché in Africa and South America – put down the envoy’s hat at the age of 40 and took a year…
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Continue reading →: When Sakshi-Shubam Became Jodhaa-AkbarThe wedding film has become the ultimate eraser of the divide between the familiar real life and the large-screen fantasy.
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Continue reading →: Diva Editorial May 2013While I respect and enjoy beauty as much as the next person, I do believe that we need to evolve out of outdated terminology. Whatever the old, patriarchal reasons for restricting a woman’s qualities to her physical attributes, it’s time now for a new vocabulary on feminine beauty.
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