FOOD & NUTRITION, RELIGION

Anisa Karolia’s ‘The Ramadan Cookbook’

Food plays a huge role in Ramadan for Muslims around the world, abstaining from eating between sunrise and sunset with a pre-dawn meal of Suhoor and a family-cooked meal in the evening. It possibly bridges Anisa Karolia to her childhood memories of wandering into the kitchen to ask her mum what she was cooking. This […]

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CULTURE, FOOD & NUTRITION

Cooking up a storm in a Desi Kitchen

Sarah Woods, the author of Desi Kitchen, left her corporate role at a leading pharmaceutical company to pursue a career in food. She honed her cooking skills at Ashburton Chef’s Academy in Devon, prior to taking the leap and then debuted on BBC One’s ‘Britain’s Best Home Cook’. During the Covid lockdown, she established a […]

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EMPOWERMENT, WOMEN'S HEALTH

You’re Doing Brown Skin All Wrong

Featured Illustration: Dissirama Laba As brown girls, we have to come to the basic understanding (and agreement) that our skin care needs are on a completely different playing field than caucasian skin. Everything about it is different; skin conditions, issues, concerns, and even genetic makeup. Before this one beautiful invention called the smartphone, it was […]

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EMPOWERMENT, HEALTH & WELLNESS

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 massive library of around 4,500 […]

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HEALTH & WELLNESS

How Hair Veda Connects The Past With the Present

Before Aneeka Chauhan built Hair Veda, she studied Optometry at university and was practising as a qualified optometrist. As an optometrist she would constantly be working with patients, helping them with their sight and eye health. She decided to become a contractor in this field as it allowed her to have the flexibility to work […]

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EMPOWERMENT, HEALTH & WELLNESS

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 affinity for the water, and […]

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EMPOWERMENT, OPINION, WOMEN'S HEALTH

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 (as they do nowadays). This […]

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