Sohum Sutras

The style is about being comfortable in your own skin. It is about a woman who is 5'1" and wears flats comfortably to a party. The style has to be intrinsic. For example, when the world around seems to colour their hair blond and have highlights, I stuck to my black hair colour. Today, when the world is donning westerns, I am gravitating more towards sarees. In sarees, you feel more comfortable, elegant and graceful. Handwoven, traditional sarees are my weakness. They are an addiction. I have a good collection of sarees which is getting bigger day by day and am not able to stop myself from adding new. I have bought and chosen most of my sarees and am attached to them. There are preloved saree groups on social media. For once I was tempted to join them. But within a second I changed my mind. You know why? The reason is that I am super attached to my sarees. They are not for sale. I would also not be comfortable buying preloved sarees. Sarees have stories woven into them. I w...

As the winter sets in, it reminds us that Christmas is round the corner. An invite for a languid lunch with sparkling cocktails and promises of an afternoon filled with fun activities had us singing songs, entering a salad making competition, dancing and mixing bottles of Old Monk Rum and beer into the dry fruits and loads of butter. We donned our Chef hats and our blue gloves and had a time of our life. The charming Benita Sharma, the GM WelcomHotel Sheraton pointed that the most important ingredients of cake mixing are love, friendship and togetherness and we couldn’t agree more!! Keeping the tradition intact, I have been part of the annual cake mixing event held for selected few ladies in town since 2012. Check my previous posts about the event 2012  and here , 2014  and  2015 . Last year maybe I was travelling. The event is organised impeccably. There are games, live singing, grand buffet with most exotic dishes, cocktails, nail art, tarot card reader and so muc...