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Hand painted Bollywood posters once dotted the rural and cityscapes all over the country. With digital media taking over, the art seems to have disappeared into the oblivion. Well, not quite. Thanks to people like Hinesh Jethwani, the brainchild behind Indian Hippy, handpainted posters and the artists behind them are […]
Don’t overlook the potential of the cutlery! Image What is the first thing that comes to your mind when I mention the word ‘cutlery’? Menu tonight, a delicious spread laid out on the dining table, or a pile of used cutlery waiting in the sink to be washed? Hmm, most […]
Image I am obsessed with anything that spells peacock these days. This obsession stems from my childhood memories where we used to keep a peacock feather in between our note books so that it would double up after a couple of day (no clue who started this rumor). So each […]
Image credit We often get mails from readers to do posts on inexpensive décor ideas. You don’t have to dig deep into your pockets to change your décor. Give your old cushion covers a makeover by painting or embellishing them with beads or buttons. Stick handmade flowers on plain photo-frames […]
I always wanted to do a post on griha pravesham for quite some time and happened to get hold of the pictures of grihapravesham of my sister-in-law. Come; join me on a photo-tour of the South Indian grihapravesham. Griha Pravesham is a ceremony that is performed to mark the first […]
Green thumbs don’t need really conventional pots to grow plants; they always find ways to source containers in and around them. My father is like that, he grows plants in cut shampoo bottles, old tins, buckets, tires and what not. I did not appreciate them when I was young as […]
Happy Onam to all our readers! Come August, and it is the beginning of back-to-back festivities in India. I had promised to post about Pookalams or flower rangolis in my last rangoli post. There can’t be a better occasion than Onam to post them; Pookalams are designs or rangolis created […]
Come festive season and I am flooded with memories of my childhood where the entire street would get decked up with festive decorations and each house had a rangoli in front of its gate competing with its neighbors. Parallel lines are used in this rangoli Here, in South India, […]
I just fell in love with these cartoons on pebbles that I stumbled upon at purplehomes, another interior related blog. I knew I had to feature this artist and his work on The Key Bunch. Sushil Bhasin is a multimedia cartoonist whose work has been published in various publications and […]
The lobby at the dining Somehow, I have not been able to update my travel pictures so far and Sharon keeps chiding me for this. One obvious reason is my poor photographic skills and the other of course is sheer laziness. This time, however I promised Sharon that I am […]
