Category: EMPOWERMENT
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What is it like to stay clear with Clearica?
Archana and Anuj Rathi come from a family that supplies colours, such as paints and inks, to businesses in India, but they wanted to try something different, something like skincare. A biotech company in the USA named PhytoPharmacon (PPI) which carried out pathbreaking research into botanicals and had created a…
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Michelle Tea On Knocking Herself Up And The Fertility Industrial Complex
Initiating with the radical transparency that she will thus continue, it is 2011 when Tea’s reproductive odyssey commences. A former sex worker, recovered addict, and recipient of the Lambda Literary Award For Lesbian Fiction, Tea writes candidly about her struggles with mental health, her many heartbreaks, and her joyful promiscuity.…
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“A Poem to Latin America…”: An Interview with Fashion Designer Hyla Golden Del Castillo
Featured Image: Justynn Roque and Alec Boyle Five years ago, a determined young woman from Colombia moved to Canada with large aspirations and a drive to make a difference in our world. She thought the very idea of becoming the next Vivenne Westwood was such an out-out-pocket and unrealistic career…
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Enter a Spa Experience with Lacuna Light
Megha Mehta has always loved the open seas! Swimming in the ocean, travelling across islands and exploring different cultures had always been an integral part of her growing up. She found that anything close to the sea seemed to call her name. She realized early on that she had an…
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Creating Our Own Subculture Through Storytelling: In Conversation with Writer Nadya Agrawal
Featured Image: Kajal Magazine From traditional folktales to iconic fables, storytelling has been a powerful tool that has played a fundamental role in shaping human civilization into what it is today. For the founder of Kajal Magazine, Nadya Agrawal, writing and sharing her stories has been her preferred form of…
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Nike Basketball | The Window
How do you pick yourself back up after what feels like a devastating loss, miss-step, or mistake made due to a lack of knowledge or experience? For many poor, underprivileged people of color who are trying to make it out, the weight of a mistake feels crushing because it can…
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The Transcendence of Indo-Western Fashion: In Conversation with Designer Payal Singhal
Featured Image: Fashion Network Besides being the final year before the new millennium, 1999 was filled with some of the most anticipated and revolutionary moments in human history. From the international Melissa computer virus to the release of Eminem’s The Slim Shady LP, this year was nothing short of exciting.…
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Embracing Ageing
I spent the morning at a chair yoga workshop recently, talking about the effects of ageing on the body. While I’m not quite ready to get off the mat, there were definitely pointers to share with my mum and adaptations to consider when aches and pains give me a nudge…
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Keerat Kaur – a Polymath Leaning Into Herself
Keerat Kaur – a Polymath Leaning Into Herself by Ushbah Al-Ain Keerat Kaur’s work is rooted in her practice of contemplation. Kaur excels in bringing into form archetypal imagery from the formless. The depth reflected throughout her work speaks of her dedication to expansion as an artist. I first came across…