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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.It’s Viv and Ami, co-founders of The Wishing Chair and your weekly curators of stuff we found around the web that we thought you might like to read, watch, listen to or just enjoy. Thanks for being here :) Sometimes...
The Delights of Distraction
By Viv & Ami
5th
March
2022
On the global front the world feels like a mess, with the invasion of Ukraine; in a situation hard to fathom, changing so quickly with social, financial and political repercussions; and our own helpless situations in all this. Could this...
The Delights of Distraction
By Viv & Ami
26th
February
2022
It’s Viv and Ami, your weekly curators of stuff we found around the web that we thought you might like to read, watch, listen to or just enjoy. It’s great having you here. Unless you’ve been extra-cocooned in your omicron...
The Delights of Distraction
By Viv & Ami
14th
February
2022
Old friends are the best, aren’t they? Like an oft-worn pair of shoes, they fit comfortably around your knobbly bits. There’s a familiar groove. You don’t have to explain yourself, your moods and undulations.They know the what, how, and wherefore. ...
The Delights of Distraction
By Viv & Ami
8th
February
2022
Last week we celebrated Viv’s mother’s 70th spin around the sun. It was a milestone birthday, and in the midst of COVID, a large celebration slid to the back-burner for a future time when family could be in town. Instead,...
The Delights of Distraction
By Viv & Ami
30th
January
2022
Like everyone else in Delhi in intermittent phases of lockdown, and personal mind-sucking bandwidth, our brains haven’t had much exposure to sunlight and good ol’ Vitamin D, so they feel like they’re made of mush right now. Therefore this issue...
The Delights of Distraction
By Viv & Ami
28th
January
2022
Hey there! And here we are, we suppose you’re reading this cloistered in your hovels. "Third year of the pandemic" used to be a phrase reserved for science fiction novels. Who knew 2020 would turn into a trilogy, as COVID is...
The Delights of Distraction
By Viv & Ami
16th
January
2022
This is the last edition of the newsletter for 2021, a year which, much to your relief, we will not summarize. Suffice to say, it’s been an emotional clusterf*$% for some, a trial by dumpster fire for others with some...
The Delights of Distraction
By Viv & Ami
29th
December
2021