Creativity Equals Downtime

S DLife

Creativity = Downtime I’ve had a terribly busy year so far (the kind where I can’t even remember if I brushed my teeth or not so I brush again just in case) and have felt the need to recharge my depleted creative batteries as I’ve just started work on a new series of paintings along […]

13 Ways To Keep The Child Inside You Alive

S DList

You and I both know what it is like to be a child. After all, we’ve been there once! But do you ever wish you could go back to being a child? I do. Who wouldn’t want to be carefree and optimistic right? As grown ups, we burden ourselves with jobs, EMIs, paying bills, worrying […]

How To Truly Declutter This Diwali

S DLife

Every Diwali is welcomed with diyas, rangolis, flowers and fireworks. Diwali at our home also comes with a frenzy of activities, especially cleaning and decluttering. We buy new things for the house and create piles of accumulated junk, redundant things to throw away and donate. It is a belief that Goddess Lakshmi, the goddess of […]

Channeling My Inner Frida

S DLife

Frida Kahlo took selfies (self-portraits) way before the word ‘selfie’ was named by Oxford Dictionaries as word of the year in 2013. Her unmistakable look is recreated almost every year by artists and on runways by one fashion designer or the other. So, this year’s Halloween has been quite a chic affair as I decided […]

Happy Karva Chauth

S DLove

It’s Karva Chauth today and I’ve got Mehndi on my palms this year and have been on an all-day fast. No water even! And going to break the fast at moonrise which is expected at 8:17 pm in Bangalore today. Phew! That’s a good 24-hour fast. The things people do for love! Apart from hugely […]