Creative Desk

  A Room of Your Own Looking for a corner in your home to call it your own? A mudroom and a powder room could be the fitting answer to find your personal space away from the urban chaos to spend some 'me time' at peace. In both cases, you may find a cosy niche of privacy for yourself unlike the rest of your nest. Both men and women enter a mud room to slip into their publicly-hidden souls behind the drawn curtains and be easily comfortable in their skin. They shed their formal attire and accessories to put on some clean household clothes and be the real fresh self. Contrarily, in a powder room, a lady could go for a face-lift and indulge in her image-building exercise to be that sought-after social butterfly with a puff of powder, a blush of rouge, a hint of lip colour, a mark of an eyeliner or a beauty spot to boot. The two rooms are extremely functional and add a modern vibe with 21st-century innovation. BY PRAMITA BOSE There is no place like home.... neither on earth nor i...

Opt for a Wellness Reset With Forest Bathing Take a break from the rush hours of daily commute and your routine life for a delightful vacay in the verdant lungs of this blue planet — the forests. Inhale a fresh breath of air to feel cleaner and better. Run away from the urban cacophony for some relief. Lull your tired eyes with the lavish greenery around. Give the soles of your feet a warm touch of the mossy soil beneath and douse them in the cool waters of olive green ponds for fishing. Last but not the least, smell the breeze of petrichor — the pleasant loamy essence preceding the first burst of monsoon showers. BY PRAMITA BOSE The bright orange sunshine spraying its light rays at the crack of dawn, the tall gigantic trees standing in sober silence with expansive diameters of their trunks, the lofty mountain massifs carpeted in thick green vegetation, the heavy bowers of bushes and patches of velvety grassy meadows woven to the ground below, the gurgling of silken streams along the r...