Before anything else: if you are walking through a divorce or separation, we hope you have people around you — friends, family, and, if the weight is heavy, a counselor or therapist. What follows is… Read more

A note before we begin, and please read it: this article is about how our homes can support everyday mental wellbeing. It is not medical or psychological advice, and no arrangement of any room is a… Read more

There are two homes in every migration story.The one you're leaving — where your height was marked on a doorframe, where your mother's kitchen faces the direction it always has, where the pooja shelf… Read more

It's 11 PM in Dubai, or 9 AM in New Jersey, or 7 PM in London. You're on a video call with a property agent in Pune or Hyderabad or Kochi, watching a phone camera sweep across an empty flat, while… Read more

Walk through your home right now and count the mirrors.The dressing mirror in the bedroom. The one on the wardrobe door. The decorative mirror in the living room the interior designer insisted on.… Read more

Every festival on this blog asks a home to be ready for one day, or at most nine nights. Shravan asks something different: for thirty days, an entire home quietly, gently, belongs to Shiva.

A month ago, we wrote about a home that quietly belongs to Shiva for thirty days — every Monday sacred, a small flame kept, a Shivling honored morning after monsoon morning.

"The flat is perfect. Great light, good society, within budget. But... the main door faces South."

Every year, in the weeks before Diwali, something remarkable happens in crores of Indian homes simultaneously.

Nine nights. One flame that must not go out. And a home that, for those nine nights, holds the presence of the Goddess herself.