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The Genteel Art of Letter Writing

The Genteel Art of Letter Writing

 Wrap your fingers around a pen, it’s time to put words to paper   The last letter I wrote, on a translucent sheet of onion paper, as misty as its vegetable brethren, was probably two decades ago. My letters, usually a verbatim regurgitation of my …

An Authentic Ayurveda

An Authentic Ayurveda

From Design to Decoctions: Vivek Sahni, CEO and Co-Founder, Kama Ayurveda articulates its journey Perfume. India is a land of a 1,000 scents, maybe more. Wet rain on parched soil. Mogra wafting through on a sticky summer day. Camphor swallowed by a golden flickering flame. …

10 Slow Fashion Labels We Loved at LFW S/R 2018

10 Slow Fashion Labels We Loved at LFW S/R 2018

Highlighting innovative fabric blends, intricate weaves, flattering silhouettes, and a wider colour pallete, all with an ethos rooted in the heartland, we present our favourite slow fashion labels at Lakmé Fashion Week Summer/Resort 2018 Till recently, sustainable, India modern ready-to-wear was more floppy than fashionable. …

12 Ways to Embrace Slow Living in 2018

12 Ways to Embrace Slow Living in 2018

BeejLiving presents the ultimate month-by-month guide to live meaningfully in 2018 This year, BeejLiving presents a simple, month-wise guide to embrace slow living. We encourage you to spend one month mulling over each month’s suggestion, before you move on to the next. You can mix …

The Sustainable Imperative 2018

The Sustainable Imperative 2018

BeejLiving speaks to four businesses to see what they predict for 2018 We’re people who ask questions. About consumption. About resources. About how we source, what we eat, what we wear and what we consume. Four brands speak to us about how consumption patterns are …

The woman who paints trees

The woman who paints trees

In a digital world, botanical illustrator Nirupa Rao brings her brush to paper to humanise plants. Working on a book with the Nature Conservation Foundation and a children’s tome on a grant by National Geographic, she speaks about the art and science of illustration When …