#WTFNaina : Brand Ego
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#WTFNaina : Crickets
Them *via FB private message * : “Hi Naina!” Me *on FB private message* : “I don’t chat here, please email me. Thanks.” Them *on email* : “Hello, can you…
#WhatsUpNaina July 7th 2016
Juggling the Paschimanchal Vidyut Vitaran Nigam Limited ( PVVNL in short ) or one of the many Uttar Pradesh State Electricity Board Divisions ( I’m exhausted just naming the first…
Bombay, from May #EyesForBombay
In April and May 2016, I visited Bombay twice. Once for #GetPepped and once for a story with St. Regis Bombay and the launch of Go Pro in India. Obviously,…
Werner Herzog Teaches Film Making
“I am Werner Herzog and this is my Masterclass.” First of all, how cool is the domain Masterclass.com?! Solid gold right there, cornered the market. I first heard about this…
Adobe Capture CC 2016 : Patterns
Adobe Creative Cloud recently launched a new 2016 edition and the first thing that caught my eye was Adobe Capture ( which is available for Android! PHEW! ). And the…
Bill Cunningham : Fashion Icons with Fern Mallis
UPDATE : The full talk is no longer available. Access had been made available only for a couple of weeks. I have linked the video to a partial talk. Bill…
#StarwoodProud
Never having been a direct employee of the Starwood brand, it might seem odd that I am blogging about their #StarwoodProud initiative as the brand bids goodbye after having been bought…
What to blog about when there is nothing to blog about?
Because I have nothing to blog about right now. Literally. I’ve been asked this too many times and I’ve given advice verbally a ton of times. Since I’m in this…
The Lalit, Chandigarh #REDHUxTheLalit
It’s lovely how the universe works. Just weeks ago, I was the keynote speaker at the SoDelhi Confluence at The Lalit, New Delhi and soon after, The Lalit, Chandigarh wrote…
#CoverUp 84 #REDHUxTheLalit
Chandigarh was as hot ans sweaty and humid as Delhi was when Akanksha and I visited for the #REDHUxLTheLalit gig. The Lalit, Chandigarh has enough nooks and corners and locations…
Mr. Burberry, #FragranceOfTheMonth #FathersDay
June’s Fragrance Of The Month is a little late publishing because I’ve just not been at my desk this whole last month! From the Wedding Photography Masterclass to the feature…
SoDelhi Keynote on Blogging #ConfluenceAtTheLalit 2016
(UPDATED on 29th September 2017. With links to high resolution video and audio provided by the SoDelhi team.) Let me get it out of the way first : the audio…
Portraits #NAINAxRanikhet
Some “slow photos” from the #NAINAxRanikhet trip. “Slow” basically means I stopped driving and took out the D800 and made a photo. And hence some decent portraits of my parents.…
#CoverUp 83 #NAINAxRanikhet
CREDITS Orange top by Kallol Dutta ( via the Travelling Trunk by Chikky Goenka ) Wraparound skirt is a traditional Arunachal Pradesh women’s wear lower called Gaaley, purchased from…
#NAINAxRanikhet Day 07, Bye Ranikhet!
That’s not a helicopter, although I wish it was – the trips with my parents would be so much more comfortable for them. Sitting on your ass for 12 hours…
#NAINAxRanikhet Day 06
All three of us were very conscious of this being the last day of our 2016 trip to Ranikhet. So we tried to do everything right, starting with an early…
#NAINAxRanikhet Day 05
Our fifth day at Ranikhet involved a much-anticipated visit to the Kumaon Regimental Center’s Community Center where various locally-made products are sold. Shawls, edibles, crcokery, jackets. etc. The original idea…
#NAINAxRanikhet Day 04
The fourth day in Ranikhet was marred by car trouble. We ended up at the golf course again. After breakfast and a round of golf, we ended up at a…
#CoverUp 82 #NAINAxRanikhet
CREDITS Jacket + Shirt from Kapda by Urvashi Kaur ( The jacket especially I LOVE! The shirt, which is a jersey back and cotton front can be worn over jeans…
#NAINAxRanikhet Day 03
Dad’s a golfer, so a visit to the Ranikhet golf course is a given. On our third day at Ranikhet, we headed to the golf course at about 0730 hours,…
#NAINAxRanikhet Day 02
Our goal, when we visit Ranikhet, usually, is to just do nothing. Mostly we visit when there’s a Kumaon Regiment re-union or some other official event related to the Kumaon…
#GoProIndia Launch #NAINAxGoPRo
Go Pro has finally launched in India officially. Fans of the brand have existed since the brand launched internationally. I’ve seen them – they are easy to spot – one…
#NAINAxRanikhet Day 01
One fallen tree due to the storm around Ram Nagar, one new wide road we tried KalaDhungi – Nainital – was double-carriage and fabulous but 30-40 kilometers longer than our…