5 Essentials For Indian Female Students Going To Study In The UK
Studying abroad is both an exciting and an expensive affair. A large percentage of Indian students are opting to continue their education in the UK; be it graduation or post-graduation. The UK is known to be the world leader in many areas of education, such as Business and Management, Science,... Read More
Top five healthy cooking choices you should make now | Rakshita Dwivedi
Mom called, “Did you have your dinner?” I answered casually, “Not yet, I will fix something” She said, “Don’t fix, please cook”. Does this conversation ring a bell? Well this was my story some ten years back when food was the least of my priorities and as a newly married, working couple... Read More
Culturama: July 2016
The latest edition of Culturama is finally here! This months issue includes: Neuroanatomist Dr Jill Bolte Taylor on dealing with negative emotions, raising emotionally intelligent children and Buddhist thought. The other Brihadeeshwara Temple in Gangaikonda Cholapuram in Tamil Nadu. Mallakhamb, an ancient Indian art, can make your body supple and... Read More
Culturama: May 2016
This months issue of Culturama covers a wide variety of enticing topics. Why is khadi so important to Indians? What makes Indian cotton so special? Are you looking to travel? How about a trip to the end of the land in South India – Rameswaram? Or a dip in the... Read More
Inspirational Woman: Tanya Munshi | Lifestyle Writer & Founder of The Lifestyle Portal, The Lifestyle Portal
Tell us about yourself, your background and what you do currently When we were kids, we used to subscribe to a few magazines at home – Target, Tinkle, Amar Chitra Katha, Readers’ Digest and WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature). My elder brother and I would eagerly look forward to... Read More
Culturama – November 2015
Culturama – November 2015 November’s Culturama is a smorgasbord of delights. The cover features a painting by renowned artist Gautam Patole to celebrate the pan-Indian celebration of Diwali of ‘festival of lights’. As we count down to the day, we tell you about the ways in which it is celebrated... Read More
Enjoy a Silver Lining!
This festive season, Silver Linings offers you an opportunity to gift ‘Empowerment’ and ‘Dignity’ to blind girls and women! We invite you to volunteer, provide infrastructure or donate cash and partner with Silver Linings to continue to help us run our ‘Project Dignity’ Project Dignity is currently providing visually impaired girls... Read More
Inspirational Woman: Oorvazi Irani | Director SBI Impresario Pvt. Ltd.
Tell us about yourself I would like to describe my core self as that of an artist – as self discovery through the medium of art stimulates me. Professionally I am a filmmaker, film educationalist, acting coach, and also write on cinema. I am the Director of my company, SBI Impresario, which was incorporated by my dad, Sorab Irani in 1975. My... Read More
Are you in love? | Monisha Doley
Well, this blog is not only for those of you who have lately been thinking that you might have been bitten by the love bug. It is not only for those of you who have met someone special. But love here refers to love on a broader perspective; irrespective of... Read More
What options do you have, really? | Dinakshi Arora
They tell you that your whole life flashes before your eyes. It kind of does, when you are hanging on a steep cliff by a single tiny rock that threatens to give in at any moment and all you can see below is seemingly infinite distance to the ground. Don’t... Read More
A life full of mindfulness – aware, present, real | Veechi Shahi
I often find myself warming up to an inspiring one-liner by Eric Butterworth: “Don’t go through life, grow through life”. It brings me back to the centre of everyday human existence – mindfulness of everything that is happening around us. Simply put, mindfulness is a state of active, open attention... Read More
Culturama – April 2015
Holy cow! Did you just spot the unique cover of the April issue of Culturama? Yes! That is a cow peeping out from a house! This special issue is centered on the animal that India reveres as a divine being – the cow. From a look at how and why... Read More
Makeup Tips for Teens | By Neha Suradkar
Five make up tips for teens Teenagers often face a lot of insecurities with respect to their body, looks, hair, skin tone, clothes and almost everything else. To cover up a lot of presumed flaws, the easiest thing that they tend to do is to apply makeup. Sometimes the makeup... Read More
Culturama – March 2015
It’s celebration time at Global Adjustments as we turn 20 on March 4! To mark this event, Culturama looks at the journey of the two women – Ranjini Manian and Joanne Grady Huskey – who started the company at a time when the mobility industry was at a nascent stage. Today, the... Read More
Don’t Touch The Pickle! | By Pooja Jalan
Recently, women employees under the age of 50 at Asma Rubber Private Limited, a firm in Kochi Kerala, were strip searched after two supervisors found a used sanitary napkin in the toilet. It started off as an interrogation on who had left the used napkin in the toilet but when... Read More
‘MARSALA’ your ‘go to’ colour for 2015 | Vibhuti Bhandarkar
That intoxicating red of wine, the earthy shade with a seductive personality of its own has a name and is now recognised as ‘Marsala’. To me, Marsala sounds like a sultry yet sophisticated lady with a beautiful story to tell. Is that you? Marsala – declared the Pantone Colour of... Read More
Sustainability – From the 25 design tips series from M for homes, Third issue
It’s always a dream come true having a designer space. The dream comes at a cost and can be a nightmare if the materials used are nor sustainable. In this issue we talk of sustainability as a key element in design correlated to the budget you have to spend today... Read More
Who I really am | The rise of connected and conscious men | Veechi Shahi
Up at 6am, rushes out, drives an hour in traffic and works for 10 hours a day. Drives for two hours to get home, slops on the couch and watches TV until he falls asleep, every day of his life. Perhaps the most predictable picture of a common man. The... Read More
My Tryst with Writing | Payal Gandhi Hoon Blog
Now as I tap my fingers, it fetches me some interesting thoughts about the power of writing. I can imagine the act of making impressions on cave walls to tree breaches, to those regal looking feather tipped pen dunked in ink to mark the sheet of paper. i think about... Read More
Dreaming Your Living Spaces – Part of the 25 secret tips on home design by M
We have to write a destiny we dream and live It knowing it’s a dream. As you rise in the morning and see the sky as yourself, “Have I denied myself my dream or is it the skies?” We have to write the dream, visualise it, dream it all the... Read More