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A Weekly Newsletter by Viv & Ami
We began this labour of love, as a way to share with our friends all the ways in which we revel in life’s little pleasures - cooking, art, music, design - away from the doom-scrolling of gloomy headlines.Alongside our curated list from the internet of our favourite things, we also share our experience of being female entrepreneurs in India; the highs and pitfalls, challenges and wins and perhaps some nuggets of wisdom we’ve learned as we’ve fumbled through this journey.The past couple of years seems to have been a blur of friend’s celebrating their big 4-0 and our respective parents celebrating their milestone 7-0. And as our younger friends, grudgingly - or kicking and screamingly, enter their 4th decade,...
The Delights of Distraction
By Viv & Ami
31st
August
2022
There are only 50 unique words in the children’s book Green Eggs and Ham. Dr. Seuss wrote the book after his publisher bet him $50 in 1960 that he couldn’t write an entire book with less than 50 unique words...
The Delights of Distraction
By Viv & Ami
31st
August
2022
Why do we know so many people who spend their lives doing things they don't like to do, buying things that bring them no lasting joy, and working hard at goals that offer no real fulfillment? We have all experienced...
The Delights of Distraction
By Viv & Ami
1st
August
2022
About five years after launching, The Wishing Chair was in expansion mode. In addition to our three outlets, we wanted to open brick-and-mortar stores in Mumbai, Hyderabad and Chandigarh. But most of our earnings were being plowed back into developing...
The Delights of Distraction
By Avneet Mann
26th
July
2022