SPIRIT OF MUMBAI

  HGH India 2018, India`s largest trade-show for home textiles, home décor, house ware and gifts – designed exclusively for the professional and trade visitors – presented the latest trends forecast by it in home fashion and lifestyle at a press conference in Mumbai. Conceptualized and implemented by the internationally renowned design office Sahm + Permantier, the trend, under the title ‘Transition’,reflect the influence of social, lifestyle and technological changes in the Indian home products market in 2018 – 19. The predicted trends are derived from intense research on colours, materials and patterns as well as on changing consumer values, lifestyle, evolving technology and attitudes. The trend book  helps manufacturers, brands, retailers and professionals in home business to connect their products and innovations to the aspirational Indian consumers who see their home as an expression of their lifestyle and evolving culture. The Four Trends for 2018-19...

                                                                                    " Let's go shopping for the mid-season sale! " I exclaimed excitedly on land line to my sister  expecting a cheerful ' Yay '. Instead her tearful ' Nay ' dampened my mighty Mumbai-spirit and concerned sibling-love. " Are you all right ? What's wrong with your voice ?".  She sobbed some more and then what followed was Love-Hate relationship story of  99.99% Mumbaikars.  BAE  = Before Anyone Else = Maid in Mumbai = Unpredictable domestic help whom you pay for holidays rather than for actual work. Bae demands leaves for anyone under the Sun and even for the neighbors who are no more on the Earth. I am sure you got the gist. We need the maids / domestic helps for dail...

                                              Home is just not the roof above head with walls to support but it is the most affectionate bond shared by family members, relatives, friends and neighbors. The  warmth, the coziness, the charm of Home can never be matched by any star- studded posh hotel. So let's  #CelebrateOurNewHome  which is full of timeless  memories, pampering, sharing and caring by family members. Home is the kind of  nest, from where the little birds gain strength to fly high. Westside ' s Exclusive  collection of Home & Lifestyle solutions is that treasure trove we wish for our Home. Naturally, Home decor is very interesting, important, close to our heart yet a matter  of universal debate . The needs, choices, tastes, whims & fancies of each family  member must be given equal respect and f...

"Oops, I have forgotten the keys , we have to return Home and collect it" - Sandhya, my cousin-friend declared with alarming hurry. We were already late due to the office-rush hour and to top that lateness, we had to return home. Our mobiles were constantly buzzing with friends, threatening to call 100 , 101 , 102 ,... if we didn't reach the venue within a second. As if we possessed couple of time-machines. Now that's typical of school-friends. They take you for granted. They think of you as Omnipotent and Useless in the same instance.  We pacified them with the coolest promise of Magnum Chocolate Infinity Ice-candies, if they didn't kill us on arrival. They bargained for 2 candies each, we cursed Foreign Direct Investment in retail but our taste-buds were already in raptures.  At last, we reached the venue for the get-#together / reunion of school-friends, exactly an hour after the scheduled time. We were fashionably late but still received the warmes...