Fashion and more this Festive season

September 25th has a magical quality to it in Mumbai. The rains have petered off,the Ganesh festival has ended,Durga Puja has begun and as if on cue the festive season goes full throttle and continues until February of the next year encompassing everything including our biggest festival- the wedding season. From haute watches to haute…

The Business of Beauty, the Business of Fashion

It used to be a fact universally acknowledged that when a fashion house wanted to beef up its bottom line it launched a fragrance or two or three.  Now it launches a make- up line or two or two hundred. At Milan Fashion Week, Gucci debuted its 200-piece beauty collection- a launch said to be…

The meditative moment

We sit together The mountain and I Until Only The mountain remains –Japanese haiku I may have missed the exact words but this was the gist of a haiku shared by one of my meditation teachers many years ago in Bodhgaya. There are many ways to interpret this but one way is to see it…

cellulite busters & tummy tuckers

L’Occitane has just launched Almond Beautiful Shape , for tackling cellulite. With caffeine, quinoa,carrot oil.pepermint oil and immortelle extracts this gel has all the right ingredients to break down fatty deposits or at least the appearance of fatty deposits on hips, buttocks and thighs. (Rs 3590 approx). While we should all be comfortable in our…

7 days in Ayurveda

I recently spent seven days at Somatheeram in Kerala and went through the works- virechana, abhyanga, ksheerdhara, mukhalepam, hot poultices, dosha calibrated food and the stuff I hated the most-medicated ghee drinks and medicated nasal drops or nasyam. Fortunately I was spared therapeutic vomiting. Somatheeram, based outside Trivandrum is a quick a direct flight from…