Urvashi-Singh

TEA IN THE TIMES OF DALGONA

February 12, 2021

Living in a post-pandemic world has come with its own set of realisations, not the least being a fairer acknowledgement of our country’s tourist destinations. Locations that are easily accessible by road lend travel bugs a no brainer solution to satiate their growing wanderlust, to which I am no exception....

A HOTELIER IN THE TIMES OF REVENGE TRAVEL

February 5, 2021

Just when the world couldn’t seem stranger in the wake of a global pandemic, the eerily dormant hospitality sector awoke to a new catchphrase called ‘revenge travel’. An unlikely euphemism, it sure provided immense relief to ailing hoteliers worldwide, whose livelihoods had started to gasp amidst the depths of financial...

HALT FOR COBALT WITH TARINI SINGH AND HER UNIQUE ENDEAVOUR

January 29, 2021

Amidst the creative cityscape of Jodhpur that has long since bustled with design hallmarks, former NIFT graduate and 36-year-old Tarini Singh’s design label, The Cobalt Company, stands out as its latest retail affair. Unlike the majoritarian success stories of rebranding and repackaging some long-existing market potentials, Tarini’s initiative takes the...

Srinagar’s Karan Mahal: History reinvented

January 22, 2021

The charming European-style villa that is perched upon Srinagar’s Shankaracharya Hill overlooking the Dal Lake is no ordinary mansion. Constructed in the 1920s as Karan Mahal, it served as the residence of Dr Karan Singh, the then crown prince of Jammu & Kashmir. A charismatic leader of legendary stature, Dr...

MUSHROOMING OF A CAUSE: PREETI RATHORE & MAANVEER SHEKHAWAT

January 15, 2021

Ex-engineer Preeti Rathore and marketing professional Maanveer Shekhawat are making headlines as Pink City’s most power-packed couple, and for good reason. The two resigned from their conventional jobs in order to invest themselves fully in their joint passion for sustainable farming. Both Rathore and Shekhawat have found their calling in...

As New Year begins, it’s time to look at a lesser-known pandemic

January 8, 2021

It’s holiday season here in Manali and like all other parts of the world, families are celebrating and getting merry around the ageless component of festivity: Desserts. At my boutique resort, we have yielded to popular demand and increased our dessert spread by multifolds. I have personally taken up the...

DHARAI: SLOW AND SUSTAINABLE FASHION

December 18, 2020

In The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, celebrity influencer Marie Kondo propagates the Japanese art of decluttering and organising through a purging process of one’s immediate living spaces. The exponential growth of rapid consumerism has met with several countercurrents of ethical questioning, with minimalism leading this fray. Popular streaming channels...

HOW NITIKA KUMARI JADEJA IS REWRITING THE GOLF HISTORY

December 11, 2020

The Jamsaheb of Nawanagar (present-day Jamnagar) went down in history as India’s all-time great cricketer, and is remembered today through the domestic first-class cricket championship named after him, the Ranji Trophy. His numerous offshoots, such as Duleep Sinhji and Ranvir Jadeja, have carried Indian cricketing to newer heights, to the...

Rachna Rathore and the Rajput Mothers Foundation

December 4, 2020

A professional educator, philanthropist and mother, Hong Kong-based Rachna Rathore welcomed the year of 2015 with an epiphany that would forever alter the destinies of thousands of Rajput women. For all the years that she had glimpsed into the lives of professional, working Rajput women, Rathore very correctly inferred the...

Jawai: The leopard country

November 27, 2020

Bordering Gujarat, Rajasthan’s south-western region is popularly referred to as Godwar, meaning the water (god) territory (war). The Sukri river and its tributaries gush through its otherwise arid and rocky terrain before joining the westward Luni river. Back in 1946, Jodhpur’s Maharaja Umaid Singhji had commissioned a dam project in...

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