This Substack is a journal and letterdesk, and here you will find reflections from a slow, artful life cultivated in the busiest of cities, alchemized into writing. This is a women's space. Uncool, sexy, and tending the gardens of the feminine psyche. I share experiences, stories, love letters, diary entries and gentle nudges for slow living, romancing yourself, feminine healing, art, cooking, pleasure, sensuality and more… And sometimes, my life’s work in fashion and textiles comes crawling in.
I am a Plutonian Venusian aesthete, sensualist, artist, designer and writer from Bombay, India. I engage with the world through art, fashion, textiles and design in my creative pursuits, and out in real life, I’m actively involved in working with the artisanal, handcrafted luxury heritage of my motherland - India.
As a triple water sign Pisces Sun, Cancer Moon & Scorpio Rising, I love to live a slow, delicious life of almost always daydreaming and romanticizing everything. I practice slow living that is aligned to revering and healing my feminine energy, in most spheres of my life.
My art, my work and my dreams are built upon a foundation of empowering artisanal Indian design heritage - beautiful things made by hand, in traditional systems of craft that have been nurtured in my culture for generations.
I am an Emotional Manifesting Generator, as per my human design, and of course I’d be really bored if I talked about - or defined myself - with just one thing ever. I’ve been learning how to release myself from this compulsion to be contained within one niche, and taking up more space for all that I am. My Co-Star app, god bless it’s cute silly ways, says on my birth chart that I ‘exist on a chaotic plane of the divine that is not at all material’. I quite like that ;)
I love to cook, tend to my plants, read about astrology, practicing witchcraft, living in tune with the moon cycles, and letting myself - little by little - be magically yin in a world that’s far too yang for our own good.
The north star of my life these days is cultivating beauty, at all levels, and falling in love with being a woman.
You’re also invited to explore my shop for my creations and curations of handcrafted Indian sarees, slow textiles and my handmade ceramics.
Currently, paid subscriptions are in beta for those of us in India - which means that I have trouble receiving paid subscriptions from readers and most attempts lead to payment failures. I have long oscillated in the infernal loop of switching off payments altogether, losing my mind censoring myself, and then feeling far too vulnerable because my real, natural style of writing is simply too juicy to exist without the protection of paywalls.
I now have a payment page to work around this, so you can treat yourself to a paid subscription, unlock access to all of my writings, and continue to receive more of my personal, intimate and longform essays meant only for the eyes of premium subscribers — while allowing myself to be nourished and supported by your patronage. Making this energy exchange of INR 999/$11 gives you three months of access to the depths of this space, and you will receive letters from me thrice a month, on Moon days and Venus days. <3
