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Before, During & After Adobe Max : Adobe’s Creativity Conference & My Personal Learnings

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BEFORE MAX At first, when the Adobe blog post about the invited “Adobe Insiders” was published, I was excited to check out everyone’s profiles and look at their Instagram pages.…

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“Those Days In Delhi” by Yashodhara Lal #AboutABook

“Those Days In Delhi” by @yashodharalal When @harpercollinsin sent this book to me, I wasn’t sure I’d like it. I had no context about the book whatsoever. Of course, I’m…

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Took A Chance & Quickly Launched My Art on Social Media ( Part Three )

In Part Two last week, I shared how my mini-painting brooches were born and how I re-focused on my art after spending nearly two months figuring out the brooches supply…

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Took A Chance & Quickly Launched My Art on Social Media ( Part Two )

In Part One last week, I gave you the context around which I’m writing this series of blog posts. What my original plan was, how the journey began and progressed…

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Took A Chance & Quickly Launched My Art on Social Media ( Part One )

SETTING THE CONTEXT “Once I’ve announced the exact date and location for my first-ever solo show of my art, that is when I will open the floodgates of photographs on…

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How to Boost & Focus Your Social Media Marketing & Scheduling with CoSchedule

This is not the first time I’m advocating for CoSchedule as my marketing solution mainstay. My earlier piece introducing CoSchedule was published last year. CoSchedule has made some interesting changes…

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Not Your Typical Travelers, Gangtok, May 2019 #EyesForDestinations

Lost count of the number of times our hosts asked us where we wanted to go “tomorrow”. And then when we said that we would probably end up going to…

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Entrepreneur or Female Entrepreneur : Why Does It Matter? #NAINAxDotCo #IWD2019

Having been interviewed for various articles more than a few time throughout my 15 year career, there have been a couple of times when the article was titled “Women Entrepreneurs”…

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The Gift & Curse of Creating In The Age of Instagram

When you are online, you can see more of what you’ll never be able to do or have. What started out as “I want to share my world with the…

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Professional Etiquette : A Primer on How to Make Phone Calls

At first, I was going to write about my discomfort with phone calls. How I don’t want to take calls at all and prefer texting. In the last couple of…

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How Often Should I Post On Instagram

The short answer : doesn’t matter, as long as you are consistent. Which means that if you post once a week, you should always post once a week. If you…

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Ugly Teeth and Other Flaws in My Appearance

Just yesterday, someone who follows me on Instagram, mentioned that they missed my “text” updates on my Instagram stories. Where I “talk” with my “followers”. Both talk and followers are…

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The Great Smog of India by Siddharth Singh #BookReview

Considering I live in Gurgaon, not far from the worst of it in India, this was a book I had been looking forward to since I read the author’s tweets…

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All My Clients are The Best Clients

A Head of Digital Marketing recently asked me to share some examples of good pitch emails others brands had sent to me ( influencer marketing ). I was unable to…

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Are You An Artist? 16/09/2018 Sibang

Sniffing gluten but not tasting. Painting with oils. Yellow. Green. Sienna. Words for colors. Words from a bygone romance-infused era. Spending time with Dad. Not exactly providing care to him…

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Case Study : Pitch for Lifestyle Architecture / Interiors Photography Assignment

Brief Background A client of mine that has previously purchased / licensed images from my portfolio to use in their publication, got in touch with me recently for another assignment.…

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Selecting Images & The Limitations of Seeing

For the longest time, i.e. till today, I have selected images from whatever I’ve photographed, based on the following criteria : 01. The image must be “nice” It should look…

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How I Use CoSchedule #EditorialCalendar #SocialMediaScheduling

The nightmare of sharing your work on social media! As a creator, I find it tedious to have to post updates on so many social networks. And as a prolific…

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Gratitude

Been thinking about how to deal with my existential crisis. Career-wise and personal-life-wise, I’m doing ok. There’s a never-ending search for meaning and the feeling of fulfillment and I lead…

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My Top Five #EyesForDestinations Experiences #EyesForLuxury in DNA After Hours

In today’s print and online edition of DNA After Hours. Article is titled, “Epically Epicurean“. So far, what I consider to be my top five luxury experiences. What I wrote…

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Pursuing an Anti-Acne Skincare Routine #EyesForBeauty

I went from n00b to “I’ll try everything”, within 60 days and now, here I am. Read on. It’s going to be a long one. I made a list first,…

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“Career in Blogging” article on TimesJobs #InTheNews #Press

The article is called, “Career in tech and fashion blogging can pay up to Rs 1 lakh monthly” and I was interviewed for inputs by the author / writer…

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Smartphone Photography and How I Shoot, Edit and Share

One simple and basic rule to follow, if you want to make nice photographs : pretend it is a client assignment. If you’ve never photographed for a client, I understand…

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Gratitude 2017 : The Year in Retrospect

1,040 blog posts by the end of 2017. Across various categories, primarily focused on : EyesForLuxury, EyesForDestinations, EyesForTechnology, EyesForLifestyle, 12 personal style features, etc. 40 episodes of my podcast :…

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Before, During & After Adobe Max : Adobe’s Creativity Conference & My Personal Learnings

“Those Days In Delhi” by Yashodhara Lal #AboutABook

Took A Chance & Quickly Launched My Art on Social Media ( Part Three )

Took A Chance & Quickly Launched My Art on Social Media ( Part Two )

Took A Chance & Quickly Launched My Art on Social Media ( Part One )

Not Your Typical Travelers, Gangtok, May 2019 #EyesForDestinations

Entrepreneur or Female Entrepreneur : Why Does It Matter? #NAINAxDotCo #IWD2019

Professional Etiquette : A Primer on How to Make Phone Calls

Ugly Teeth and Other Flaws in My Appearance

The Great Smog of India by Siddharth Singh #BookReview

All My Clients are The Best Clients

Are You An Artist? 16/09/2018 Sibang

Case Study : Pitch for Lifestyle Architecture / Interiors Photography Assignment

Selecting Images & The Limitations of Seeing

Gratitude

My Top Five #EyesForDestinations Experiences #EyesForLuxury in DNA After Hours

Pursuing an Anti-Acne Skincare Routine #EyesForBeauty

Gratitude 2017 : The Year in Retrospect

Talisman by Janavi India #LMIFWSS21 : Evil Eye Luxury Cashmere Collection

Midsummer Jardin : More About My First Hand-Painted Jacket #KhaosPhilos

BMW at the India Art Fair 2020 #EyesForLuxury #BMWAtIAF

The New Balcony

Label KhaosPhilos One-Of-A-Kind Exclusive Art T-Shirts (Unisex)

Why I Prefer The Circluar Shape For All My Canvases

Spiti with Tethys Himalayan Den HomeStay, June 2021

A Rajasthan Holi, 2021

The Nine Stages of Experiencing Narendra Bhawan Bikaner