Your mind is where you spend most of your time, so make sure it is a nice place to live in. Meditate, engage in new hobbies as often as you can, feed the mind with new information by educating yourself on a topic, or even learn a new skill in your free time
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Do vision boards really work?
Your dreams are as real as you can imagine them. And creating a vision board of how you’d like something to turn out ensures that the ‘vision’ always remains in your mind subconsciously. The brain fosters this process by directing you to information, which your goals prioritise
NRI Watch: Land value surge drives housing inflation; construction costs up 34%, housing prices up 59%
The Middle East tensions have caused steel, fuel-linked logistics, and imported finishing material costs to rise sharply. This staggering 25% divergence signals an urgent affordability crisis for homebuyers, and a severe margin threat for real estate developers
How anticipatory nostalgia impacts your life
The human mind is a marvel, where anticipatory nostalgia acts as a defence mechanism, enabling you to consciously acknowledge - when the inevitable happens - that the moment is about to end, thus reducing the intensity of grief or sadness once it becomes a memory
Sabyasachi, the Nizam from Kolkata
The self-taught designer collects Chinese pottery, big and imposing, as you walk in the narrow lanes of tunnels he has named 'Chowringhee', inspired by where his office is, and the famous street in Kolkata - 'Hogg'
Can dreams be controlled?
Lucid dreaming enables you to ‘write your own story’ in your dream by directing the plot to what you’d want it to be. This takes place while the body is completely rested and asleep, but the mind is consciously awake. The science and understanding of such dreams is still being studied through extensive dream analyses
Rs. 45,000 for extra kali, Rs. 50,000 for alterations, and 20% fat tax for large brides
Under a sea of solitaires, miniature bags, pointy-toe princess ballerina kitten heels with diamante bows, I decided to start my story by posing as a customer of designer lehengas. Here's how the day unfolded...
Avoiding tasks and why we do it
Perfectionism may be a stumbling block especially when dealing with a procrastinated task. So don’t be hard on yourself. Exercise patience and self compassion so that you are kind to yourself when trying to accomplish something you wouldn’t usually want to
Fashion in India lacks depth: Tarun Tahiliani
Structural draping, Kashida, marori, Chikankari, eight levels of shading, his ICW 2026 line can be summed up as “innovation is evolution”. On political climate, CJP protests Tarun Tahiliani feels fashion has blinkers on, no moral compass
The brain and the AI spiral
The high prevalence of Artificial Intelligence taking over jobs and workload can never truly match the brilliance of human brain functions. With the use of AI in accomplishing crucial brain-developing tasks, the actual thinking processes take a backseat, thus sending it to a state of lethargy
Small connections count
The impact of small interactions is not only subjective, but also neurobiological. Such interactions aren’t just polite, they’re protective. They signal to your body to not always remain in a state of hyper vigilance, but to learn to let loose in a safe and secure manner. It reminds the heart and mind of the prevalence of basic human kindness
When clothes speak a language of their own
Are garments second skin - the reason why we love that ikkat kurta our mom wore, and that flaming red Banarasi brocade our grandma left for us? Discarded textile scraps tell painful stories of the Partition, as three textile artists embroider, dye, paint on waste, and crochet, to say that fabrics have emotion