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House and Home

Affordable Home Styling Tips For A New Home

Buying a house is expensive and if you don’t keep a budget, doing up the interiors can get way out of hand. The sheer variety of shelves, sofas, dining tables, wall hangings, and gewgaws can make you go a little nutty and you will need to rein yourself in. The best way to fill up your newly bought nest AND plan affordable home styling is …

House and Home

Best Indian brands for recycled products

Sustainability has to be a way of life to be a way of business – Anand Mahindra. Fast fashion is doing a number on the environment and while the business sector is a behemoth that cannot be stopped without the conscious effort of every single person that consumes it. Fast everything, in fact, is making our world that much more unsustainable and polluted to boot. …

Food

6 Home-grown Healthy Cereal Brands

Conscious eating has caught on in India, with people ditching packaged junk food. The rise of fit-fluencers and nutritionists on social media has also contributed to mindful eating with an emphasis on nutritional value. In this climate, quality and nutritious options to the sugar-loaded energy bars and crispy snacks have soared with a few making their name and earning their audience in the country. Home-grown healthy …

Food

Simple Foods for Oral Health

Gut health begins with oral health because 45% of oral bacteria is found in the gut. DIgestion starts in the mouth and if gut health is a cause for concern, dealing with oral health first is a good place to begin. Now oral health doesn’t only mean regular trips to the dentist or expensive treatments to maintain your pearly whites. You can eat right and …

Culture Entertainment

6 Books That Were Way Better Than The Movie

The adaptation of a book to film is one that is very tricky. The Lord of the Rings is one of the few that has managed to succeed and how. The spectacle that was the three movies has gone down in cinematic history. (If only they’d managed to squeeze in Tom Bombadil that would’ve been absolutely sublime). Here’re a few movies that really really didn’t …

Entertainment

‘The Office’ Continuity Gems You Never Noticed!

There are ‘The Office’ fans and there are ‘Friends’ fans and then there are ‘Seinfeld’ fans. It’s nigh impossible for a ‘Seinfeld’ fan to be a ‘Friends’ fan or vice versa. It’s also almost impossible for an ‘Office’ fan to be a ‘Friends’ fan and again… vice versa. Image courtesy: NBC.com Having said that and having binge watched all three series multiple times, I do …

Food

Go Desi and take a trip down memory lane

Do you remember walking out of school with your friends and walking straight to the “uncle” standing a few feet away with a cartful of ber, fresh green sprigs of plump saunf sticking up from a tall aluminum container, glistening starfruit, lovely dull brown tubes of imli, green guavas and large raw mangoes all waiting to be scooped up? The end of the school day …

House and Home

8 Made-in-India Toy Brands to Support

After Chandrayaan 3, “Make in India” should hold a really high place in our hearts and what better way to instill this pride in our children than buying them toys that are made here! Some brands make quality toys and to add to the appeal the toys are made of wood and by indie artisans. If you’re taking steps to eliminate plastic from your home …