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Everything you need to know about monsoon skincare and haircare

We, a symphony of water, flowing through veins and spirit. Water nourishes us. Monsoons, sensuous and tempestuous, bring in their wake a duet of dampness and humidity. BeejLiving share the voices of beauty founders, editors and dermatologists who reveal their monsoon skincare and haircare secrets. …

Bottling the aroma of clouds and damp earth

Rain’s delicate touch and the fragrance of geeli mitti or petrichor are an elixir for our hearts and souls. Beejliving presents the most delightful geel mitti ittars that capture the essence of the first rains, bottling the aroma of billowing clouds and damp, glistening earth. …

Holistic Hair Care: The Ultimate Guide to Healthy, Beautiful Hair

Nourish Your Hair from the Inside Out with These Holistic Hair Care Tips Dr Sharad Kulkarni, Ayurveda Consultant, Author and Chanakya Awardee (PRCI), and Medical Director – Jeevottama Health shares with BeejLiving a holistic approach to healthy scalp and hair When you look into the …

Democratisation of art: By the people and for the people

Abhishek Poddar, Founder, Museum of Art & Photography ( MAP) writes for BeejLiving on making a museum an inclusive and welcoming space Ever since I became interested in art, I wondered why we would line up for museums on trips abroad, but shy away from …

Rolling out smokeless chulhas for Himalayan kitchens

Girish Chanyal is Smokeless Cookstove Foundation’s Uttarakhand-based trainer who is a relentless community enabler who constructs smokeless chulhas. Nitisha Agrawal, the Founder & Director of the NGO SCF, traces Chanyal’s journey from gardener to trainer for BeejLiving My eternal love affair with the Himalayas led …

On the Oudh Trail in Assam

Beejliving travelled to Hojai in Assam to discover one of the most precious perfumery ingredients in the world, oudh, with Ajmal Perfumes We’re making our way to the outskirts of Hojai, a small town in Assam, to a plantation of agarwood trees in pursuit of …

Neeti Mehra is an award-winning, multidimensional communications professional and brand consultant with 20+ years of experience in bringing stories to life. She works as an independent storyteller at the intersection of sustainability, ecology and people, shaping the voice of homegrown and international brands. In 2007, she founded Beejliving, a multi-disciplinary platform that records our living traditions, making them accessible and relevant to a young, curious audience. Through the lens of modernity, she interprets ancient practices, showing there is an alternate, viable path to living a fast-paced, burnt-out life. In 2024, she was featured on the cover of The Week magazine's health supplement for being the leading voice in advocating slow living in India. In February, she launched the #BeejLivingPowerCircle a B2B platform targeted to help conscious businesses in India scale.

Neeti has partnered on projects with leading global brands such as Marriott International, Jaipur Rugs, AB InBev, South African Tourism and the India Wine Awards. She is a former editor with FICCI’s India Travel, LuxeBook, and Indian Express Newspapers.
She has been published in over 60 global publications such as Lonely Planet, Vogue, Condé Nast Traveller, GQ, The Hindu, Business Traveller UK, The Spruce, Treehugger and The Times of India, writing about responsible luxury and sustainable living.
A Technical Accountant, Neeti has a Post Graduate Certificate in Yoga & Tantra and Indian Aesthetics from Jnanapravaha. She has completed a CSR workshop with the Tata Institute of Social Sciences. A student of Vedic studies since the past six years, she has also been studying Sanskrit. She has studied traditional knowledge of Ayurveda, Jyotish and Tantra with world-renowned Ayurvedic practitioner, Dr Robert Svoboda. A wine lover, she finished her WSET Level 1 award in wine with a perfect score.