A curated guide to slow, sustainable living in India
Gathering & Feasting | Slow Journeys
The world’s best-kept places aren’t in guidebooks. They’re shared from traveller to traveller, chef to chef, grower to gourmand. Here, we uncover the places where time slows and flavours linger.
Set across 2,500 acres in the Western Ghats, Dharana at Shillim integrates Ayurveda and yoga with clinical insight to make wellbeing measurable, science-led, and genuinely transformative. There is a soft rustling in the distance. Stepping into the private garden of my pool villa, I catch …
What does it mean to nurture the future of luxury? Carrying legacy into a data-heavy world? We’re not talking about chatbots in couture or NFTs posing as provenance. Rather, nurturing something slower, more deliberate, a pursuit with purpose. Three minds. Three maps into the future. …
Surrounded by the Thar Desert is Bikaner, the desert city of Rajasthan. From here comes Ashok Bishnoi, who in 2004 founded the NGO Hastshilp. Working with folk crafts, he founded The Charkha (formerly knowns as Lokashram) representing the crafts of the region and khadi products. …
Wild yeast has become wildly popular during the pandemic. For years I’ve been following Anita Tikoo’s Instagram account a_madteaparty chronicling her sourdough journey using lively wild yeast starter and local flours and other culinary experiments. A practicing landscape architect, she grows seasonal produce on her …
Lagom, or the Swedish lifestyle of balance and joy is all the rage. Sweden brings a slice of it to India. Earlier this year, before the Royal Swedish couple King Carl Gustaf Folke Hubertus and Queen Silvia Renate Sommerlath visited the country, the Consulate General of Sweden hosted Swedish Style Mumbai, a lifestyle event throwing a spotlight on Sweden’s creative industries from fashion, design, architecture, photography, fine arts, film, technology, gastronomy and music.
Since the 80s, design duo comprising Frenchman Didier Lecoanet and Indo-German Hemant Sagar have been enthralling the world with their couture and ready-to-wear fashion. What inspired them to launch Ayurganic, a conscious line of premium leisure wear, rooted in the principles of Ayurveda? BeejLiving travels to Kerala to understand the vision and journey of Ayurganic, from pale cotton bales to breathable garments that restore balance and heal the body