Moving house is supposed to be one big event: pack everything, load the truck, hand over the keys, drive to the new city and start again. Except real life rarely works that neatly. Maybe you’ve moved from Mumbai to Bengaluru, but your new apartment isn’t fully ready yet. Maybe you’re relocating to Pune for work for six months, but you…
Every year, just before Diwali, the same scene plays out. Cupboards are thrown open, beds get moved, old boxes suddenly become interesting, curtains come down, furniture gets shifted, and suitcases appear from nowhere. Someone finds three sets of Diwali lights they’d forgotten they owned, and someone else insists, “Let’s keep this, it might be useful.” Then comes the question nobody…
Your Diwali sales forecast looks fantastic. Orders are climbing, customers are buying, and your team is busy — everything sounds like good news, until the first truck arrives. Then another. Then another. Suddenly, your office has more cartons than chairs. The storeroom is full, the meeting room has been sacrificed to boxes, and packaging material is stacked wherever someone could…
There is a strange moment after a big Indian wedding. The music has stopped. The guests have gone home. The flowers are beginning to disappear. The outfits are back in suitcases. And then you open the door to the spare bedroom. There are boxes. So many boxes. A stack of wedding décor. A bag full of artificial flowers. Two enormous…
Every year, Ganesh Chaturthi brings colour, music and a completely different energy into our homes. The decorations come out. The lights go up. The mandap is prepared. Flowers are arranged. And somewhere in all of this, a beautiful Ganpati painting or piece of Ganesh artwork may become part of the celebration. For some families, it’s a decorative piece bought specially…
There is something special about the days leading up to Ganesh Chaturthi. Homes start looking different. The usual furniture gets rearranged, boxes come down from lofts, lights are tested, decorations are cleaned, and mandap materials are brought out. Artificial flowers, torans, backdrops and other festive items suddenly become part of everyday life. For a few days, everything has a purpose.…
There’s a point when you stop noticing how much stuff is around you. Not because it has disappeared — quite the opposite. You’ve simply become used to it. The suitcase that has been sitting under the bed for eight months? Normal. The cartons stacked in the spare room? You hardly notice them anymore. The wardrobe that needs to be opened…
The lights are switched off. The last guest has left. The sweets are almost finished. The house finally becomes quiet again. And then you look around: there are boxes of decorations in one corner, fairy lights tangled together, a Ganpati backdrop waiting to be packed away, Diwali diyas sitting on the dining table, decorative fabrics folded on a chair, and…
It started innocently. Maybe it was a PlayStation, an Xbox, or a gaming PC you spent months saving for. You bought a controller, connected it to the television, and thought, that’s it — I’m sorted. Then came the better monitor. Then the headset. Then the mechanical keyboard. Then another controller, a gaming chair, a second monitor, and a microphone, because…
There’s a quiet assumption most of us make about our important papers: if they’re sitting inside a cupboard, they’re safe. The property documents are filed away. The certificates are tucked inside a folder. The business records sit stacked neatly in a cabinet, and the passport waits in a drawer. Everything is indoors, out of the rain, so there’s nothing to…
