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Ahmedabad-based Mira Malhotra is an artist cum graphic designer. Young, and studying at NID, her designs are already quite sharp, with the promise of a great deal of interesting work coming out of her studio in the future. Watch out for this spunky gal, she is surely going to go […]
Meenakshi’s mother-in-law made the beautiful Ganesha painting, the colorful pier1 bottles are garage sale find. The Buddha statue was picked up at Walmart I know I have been MIA for quite sometime. I am back now and time to concentrate on the blog seriously. I was supposed to feature Meenakshi […]
Love India, and fascinated by Indian interiors? Want to take a tour of beautiful Indian homes at your own sweet pace, through villages and towns, stopping to smell the grass, wandering through palaces and mahals? This Taschen book is just what you need. Whether you are in the middle of […]
I spent a lovely Easter weekend at Ahmedabad with close family, and it was a delightful trip. Old Ahmedabad with its gorgeous architecture is a photographer’s delight. In 1947, Mahmud Begada, the grandson of Ahmed Shah (the Sultan who founded the city) fortified the city with an outer wall with […]
Toronto-based Meera Sethi is a popular artist, designer and photographer still rues the fact that she had to leave her beautiful 750-sq foot open plan home-studio loft. She had to leave because the 100-year old building it was housed in was a piece of Toronto history. Meera had decorated it […]
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 […]
Another year is here. May Twenty Ten bring you all that you wish for, all that is good for you, and the best of the best, each day! In keeping with our fascination with wall art, benches, rustic interiors et al, here are some lovely inspirational images. Nothing like some […]
Too much has been written about Bollywood and Indian décor…and too many people (living overseas) have tried it, often with disastrous results. Carrying off a desi interior look is not easy. Because you are working with so many colors, you have to balance them out, or you are bound to […]
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 […]
