Lumière turned seventeen today, a magic number! ‘The Sound of Music’ had ‘you are 17 going on 18…older and wiser… and I’ll depend on you…’ Seventeen is about being responsible… continue »Lumiere turned 17 on September 15th 2013. Charted the strategic journey for the next 4 years.
Beena has gone back to work and she is lucky to have her mother and mother-in-law both help with baby-sitting her baby. Diya lives with her in laws and delivered… continue »Mommy Coach
A friend tells me, ‘where I live is just so much concrete, and our days so harried, we has time for birds and butterflies? We do! And we must! And… continue »Planning a butterfly-themed 16th birthday for Lumiere.
Yan Can Cook’ was one of the first cookery shows that the networks brought to India. Mothers and kids watched Sanjeev Kapur’s ‘Khana Khazana’. TV Cookery shows are the new… continue »Kids can cook
Cool Home: Paresh Rana of Chembur, Mumbai fit his one bedroom with a 1 ton split air conditioner on 5th April, his wife’s birthday, replacing their window air conditioner. Kinjal… continue »Thanda Matlab AC
Growing fridge: A word repeated makes a game, like ‘teacher teacher’, ‘doctor doctor’ and ‘ghar ghar’. A game of real make believe, or in the case of the fridge, the fridge… continue »A May 2010 trends piece inspired by a fridge audit of urban Indian working women in Mumbai.
Getting Started We conducted a research for a youth beverage brand in Bangladesh in late May this year. We had failed at trying to wriggle out of work with a… continue »Bangladesh Musings
In a fast-paced, ever-changing world, we are constantly on the move. Home, family, kids, work and social commitments dominate, as does the proverbial race from home to work and back… continue »Good Health Musings
A conversation between a Lumière fresher (Lumière Lite) and the Lumière HR Desk (HRD); Lumière Lite is wondering: why do I need to come to office (Nerul) every Monday? I… continue »A plausible conversation between the Lumiere HR Desk and a new joined (Lumiere Lite) on why its mandatory to be at office each Monday.
There is a special woman in each of our lives, some one we want to think of and celebrate. While the list of women celebrities grows by the day, there… continue »Women’s Day Musings – March ‘08