12 Ways to Embrace Slow Living in 2018

12 Ways to Embrace Slow Living in 2018

BeejLiving presents the ultimate month-by-month guide to live meaningfully in 2018 This year, BeejLiving presents a simple, month-wise guide to embrace slow living. We encourage you to spend one month mulling over each month’s suggestion, before you move on to the next. You can mix …

The Kolkata Dossier

The Kolkata Dossier

“So in the streets of Calcutta I sometimes imagine myself a foreigner, and only then do I discover how much is to be seen, which is lost so long as its full value in attention is not paid. It is the hunger to really see …

Five homegrown natural cookware brands your kitchen needs

Five homegrown natural cookware brands your kitchen needs

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. …

Roshan di Kulfi

Roshan di Kulfi

An organic part of the 1950s Karol Bagh mohalla it set roots in, Delhi’s Roshan di Kulfi continues to pack in the crowds for its hearty fare of channa bhaturas, aloo tikkis and creamy kulfi Having grown up in Delhi, before the malls sprouted up, …

Pahadi Local

Pahadi Local

Sourcing locally, distributing widely My first brush with Pahadi Local was not among scented pine trees in the Himalayas. Rather, it was last year, in Jaipur, during the literature festival. At The Bees Knees, a sprightly pop-up held in the lawns of the charming Hotel Narain …

A Spoonful of Slow Food

A Spoonful of Slow Food

I’d visited Italy a few years ago, where the slow food movement took shape. This is an abridged version of a piece I had done for Elle, which appeared in the magazine in 2011. The Slow Food Movement has billowed into our sculleries from Italy, giving …