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< p style="text-align: center;"> Sustainable Scents: Are Perfumes Eliminating Chemicals and Embracing Nature? BY PRAMITA BOSE She walks in beauty in a floor-kissing black satin gown accentuated with a dazzling diamond neckpiece. No doubt, she looks wonderful tonight. But before she steps out of her abode for the star-studded event, she makes sure to cloak herself in an enchanting drapery of mysticism, temptation, sensuality and self-indulgence. Thanks to the fragrance she wears, leaving behind a trail of her enigmatic appeal and a hint of grace. Call her an irresistible seductress or a goddess on a high pedestal, her perfumed persona creates a waft of natural freshness and enticing lavishness. But all this is just for nothing. For going green is not only trendy but imperative keeping the call of the hour — environmental impact — in mind. So from green crusaders to conglomerates, everybody is doing his bit to embrace sustainability with all guns blazing! Green Needs

< p> Can Alternative Food Crops Satiate Hunger and Nurture Health? In the wake of the food crisis and supply-chain disruptions affecting different parts of the world, it becomes highly imperative to investigate if vital food replacements can be the perfect answer to narrow the gap between the well-fed and the empty stomachs? Environmental activists, climate-change crusaders, food techies and nutritionists look for ways to find alternative food agents for a concrete solution. Aniish Shah at an agricultural farm. He advocates sustainable and regenerative farming techniques. By PRAMITA BOSE Highlighting the essential quality of ruminant animals, functional nutritionist Mugdha Pradhan reports that “these creatures can help grow back green pastures from barren lands and aid in the proper functioning of the grassland ecosystems to boost the cycling of nutrients well. Regenerative agriculture engages in sustainable rearing of ruminant animals and is a proven route to restore badlands to

< p style="text-align: center;"> Lay Hands on Sustainable Toys for a Healthy Play By PRAMITA BOSE More often than not you yearn for a time machine to revisit your childhood as it is said to be the most carefree and exceedingly beautiful stage of human life. Rewinding your memory, you flip back the pages from your diary into a cheery past, recalling those playful innocent days of happy ignorance and diving deep into the ocean of nostalgia. Toys would be a prized possession in infancy and every kid’s cupboard has a unique toy story to tell. Remember those days of clay modelling when you wetted and stained your hands with water and soft mud to shape up anything and everything that caught your fancy? Or fondly counted stones or built blocks to learn basic mathematics and improve your cognitive skills? Or else cooked under a tree in your garden with miniature kitchenware along with your friends over a picnic; drew on the spotless painted walls with crayons or doodled with ch

< p style="text-align: justify;">   Sustainability in Fashion By PRAMITA BOSE Sustainability is the current buzzword in the textile and fashion industries, flagging off the movement around slow and eternal fashion. An all-out effort is being noticeably made to underline vegan fashion and value local and artisanal skills more to create sartorial stories. Here comes the role of e thical fashion that takes an important stand to tailor an eco-intelligent wardrobe and curtail the urge of surplus shopping. Safety of human beings and the conservation of nature are integral to sustainable manufacturing methods. That’s why it’s so extremely important for fashion houses and brands to desist greenwashing and making false claims about their product line, misconstruing it as eco-friendly without actually conforming to sustainable practices. No More Urge to Splurge From the pandemic era itself, people have been taught to abstain from hoarding excessive goods at home and resort