A curated guide to slow, sustainable living in India
In a digital world, botanical illustrator Nirupa Rao brings her brush to paper to humanise plants. Working on a book with the Nature Conservation Foundation and a children’s tome on a grant by National Geographic, she speaks about the art and science of illustration When …
“The bridge between the place you are and the place you want to reach is unlit. Remember, there are those who saw the stars, then there were those who saw the constellations bit by little bit.” ~ Karuna Ezara Parikh~ I (that is Beej) am …
“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 …
When Chilean artist and visual storyteller, Alejandra Domínguez, reached out to BeejLiving, we realised that we shared the same aesthetic and wonder for the world we lived in. One of her personal projects is couture, and her whimsical clothing is born from the exploration of …
Chef Manjit Singh Gill speaks about food as a visible manifestation of the almighty and the necessity to follow Ayurvedic traditions Yellow. A secondary colour. A shade between orange and green. A splash which stirs up feelings of amusement, envy and even sickness. It’s the …
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 …