ARE you planning to be a Secret Santa for colleagues or family? Or confused about what Christmas present to get for who? As merry as the season can be, the thought of buying appropriate gifts for everyone can be stressful. Here are five eco-friendly gift ideas that are not only easy on your pocket but…
By SARA ADHIKARI —- STRUNG together, these three words seem like an odd combination or, at best, click bait. But in my experience, all of them are linked by the squirm factor that private conversations on the subjects inevitably evoke. Take my dearly departed dad, for instance, or Baba as I called him. As a…
By MICAH BRANAMAN SHARMA —- THE festive season is here once again! As families come together to celebrate a variety of festivals from Navaratri, and Durga Puja to Dussehra and Diwali, consumer spending traditionally skyrockets. To harness the excesses of consumerism for good, #DaanUtsav, literally the donation festival, kicks off in tandem with this celebratory…
By KARUNA EZARA PARIKH —- THE first images of the Kerala floods I saw were not on the evening news or in the papers the next morning, no. They were on social media. There were awful images of damage done alongside pleas to donate, pleas to reach out, pleas to help. At first, I watched…
INDIA has the largest diaspora population in the world with 17million Indians living abroad as expats in 2017 – but most maintain a deep connection to their home country. Non-resident Indians (NRIs) take pride in India’s extraordinary economic growth since 1990. However, they can’t ignore the fact that in the United Nations’ most recent Human Development Index, India ranked 131 out…
By MICAH BRANAMAN SHARMA —- GROWING up in the US, the day after Thanksgiving is commonly known as Black Friday, the kick off of Christmas shopping as part of the extended Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Over the years, however, Black Friday has become more and more insane with reports of deaths as people stampede stores or intimidate…