A curated guide to slow, sustainable living in India
Architecture Learns to Breathe Again with Lyth Design’s Hungry Caterpillar, a Food Street made of Bamboo. BeejLiving explores. It’s a warm September afternoon. I make my way to the outskirts of Delhi, to Ashoka University, one of India’s leading liberal arts universities that has been …
BeejLiving discovers multi-hyphenate Indian pop and playback singer and actor turned entrepreneur, Smita Vallurupalli’s journey towards creating an inclusive skincare brand Old School Rituals on a whirlwind trip to Hyderabad “Slow living to me is not being part of a rat race. It is doing …
Jo Moody, Design Head, La Fleur, takes us through the nuances of creating rustic bouquets, including an arrangement in a fish bowl, a wedding bouquet and rustic chic arrangement that seemed plucked straight from the woodlands. With over 15 years of experience in the horticultural industry — including teaching floristry at Hadlow College in Kent — she has helped develop bouquets for major high street retailers in the UK and brings her love for flowers to La Fleur too using only locally-grown Indian flowers of the highest quality.
From Design to Decoctions: Vivek Sahni, CEO and Co-Founder, Kama Ayurveda articulates its journey Perfume. India is a land of a 1,000 scents, maybe more. Wet rain on parched soil. Mogra wafting through on a sticky summer day. Camphor swallowed by a golden flickering flame. …
BeejLiving speaks to four businesses to see what they predict for 2018 We’re people who ask questions. About consumption. About resources. About how we source, what we eat, what we wear and what we consume. Four brands speak to us about how consumption patterns are …
For many years, my family’s sil batta (stone grinder) and khalbatta okli (mortar and pestle) lay under the hot case in our kitchen. Solid, hand-hewed primitive scullery tools, come spring and they would be pulled out to crush spices to smithereens by the kitchen help. …