I recently shifted to Muscat, disillusioned with my life in India and my profession as an Anaesthesiologist. That is what I am. I know it’s a big fancy name. Sadly what I do isn’t too fancy. But coming back to the fact, I shifted all alone to a new country in the Middle East called Oman. For the uninitiated, Muscat is the capital of Oman. Initially, when I started telling people that, they were less than thrilled, discouraging me with lines like,
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“Ecstatic trips around the sun, as well as deep dives into the rabbit hole.” that is how this wonder woman describes the last eight years. Meet Devika Tamia Arora, who started her entrepreneurial journey in 2011 and now heads up three unique ventures. Devika, after winning a reality TV hunt by MTV, started Char So Bees / 420 Rooftop, Kolkata’s one and only roof top venue that focuses on local retail and the performing arts. She also created Magic Mind a thought-provoking
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Jingle bells jingle bells, jingle all the way, Santa Claus is coming along, riding on a sleigh!! It is that time of the year when everything seems to be magical… our hearts fill with joy and cheer. Love engulfs the air and the season brings hope into our lives for a shinier future. Christmas is a time of celebrating our love, joy, peace and faith. From decorating the Christmas tree to buying gifts for our loved ones, we feel happiness
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Are you tempted to switch careers and are worried whether it will work out? Is the career you want very different from what you are currently pursuing? Are you looking to hear from someone who has changed course without any regrets? Then let me introduce you to Anurita Chandrappa who took, what people would call, an extreme step and went from being a PR consultant to Makeup artist. Now mind you, the decision may have been extreme but definitely not
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Alfred Mercier rightly said, “What we learn with pleasure, we will never forget” and Anumeha Fatehpuria, Founder of The Arts in Education (TAiE), believes in enabling just that. She reaches out to children, parents and teachers, showing them exciting ways of addressing anything from academics, to life skills using the arts. Anumeha was always a good student, but she found herself wanting to learn in ways that encouraged a deeper understanding of things and most importantly in a joyous and
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The Wonder Women World would like to draw your attention to the world of sexual exploitation. Statistics reveal, that a child has to be rescued from the clutches of some form of sexual exploitation every two days in India. Exploitation makes no exceptions. It does not spare little boys or girls, women or men. However, I would like to focus this feature on those who form the majority of its victims – women. Starting today, I will share CurleyStreet Media’s
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Play each point like your life depends on it! – by Amrutha Raman “Kiddo, you’ve got a gift”, said Baskar Ethiraj, Co-founder, Indianstage.com (a ticketing and performing arts production company). This was 7 years ago, in 2010, when I cracked my first pitch for a feature in Deccan Chronicle. Back then it wasn’t passion but just a drive to communicate about a theatre group convincingly to a reporter. While I was hired to manage Indianstage’s social media accounts, Baskar and
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Hubert de Givenchy, the famous French fashion designer said “The dress must follow the body of a woman, not the body following the shape of the dress”. A big thanks to Nidhi Agarwal, Founder and CEO of KAARYAH (western wear for women), for making this the core philosophy of her company. It all started when Nidhi (like millions of other women) was unable to find a well-fitting shirt for herself. It bothered her that “something so basic and simple” was so hard to
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