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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 rest of the world seems to have a favourite new world to describe their post-pandemic ennui: Languishing, as coined by psychologist Adam Grant. A word that essays a sense of stagnation and emptiness. A feeling of muddling through your days,...
The Delights of Distraction
By Viv & Ami
8th
May
2021
“My friends and I have agreed to call each other every day just to mark ourselves present, like roll call in our school classrooms. We speak to those we love in tears, and with trepidation, not knowing if we will...
The Delights of Distraction
By Viv & Ami
1st
May
2021
How are you doing? Does your solar plexus feel like it’s being gripped by large cold hands, in a chronic state of dread? Though we’re living a dystopian nightmare, we’re still braced for when the ground will fall from beneath...
The Delights of Distraction
By Viv & Ami
24th
April
2021
“There’s a doomsday like feeling in the air.” That’s what a friend of ours said yesterday, on the eve of her birthday - spent alone at home ; with 3 delivered cakes serving as proxy guests. Indeed, that can’t-quite-explain-knot of...
The Delights of Distraction
By Viv & Ami
16th
April
2021
We started this letter a little less than a year ago, in hope to easy the tedium, the loneliness and the unpredictable stretch of time and despair that lockdown imposed. We hoped the Delights of Distraction would only be required for a...
The Delights of Distraction
By Viv & Ami
9th
April
2021
On our travels through inter-space we came across this poem, written by Kashmiri poet Sanna Wani for her friend Maya, that pretty much captures the mood for this week: Tomorrow is a Place We meet at a coffee shop. So...
The Delights of Distraction
By Viv & Ami
2nd
April
2021
The weather over the past week in Delhi has been spectacular. The sun was dazzling, there was a hint of drizzling and then an intermittent cool breeze in the air. We spent time on terraces and balconies trying to freeze-frame...
The Delights of Distraction
By Viv & Ami
26th
March
2021
For this week’s newsletter we thought we’d just jump into the juicy bits that you’re here for: our favourite links to interestingness from across the internet. Let us know if you like this format better, or would like to read...
The Delights of Distraction
By Viv & Ami
19th
March
2021
