Happy Children’s Day from Souffle and us 🙏🏼❤️
@lovetheworldtoday.in
Best part of my day 🥰
#theheartknowswhoitbelongsto
One of my dearest @thepostcarder wrote this meditation on loss and pain after our talk for @tatalitlive and as always I bow to his appetite for knowing and sharing, sometimes through open hearted presence, sometimes through words. Stay reckless in love and art my friend 🙏🏼 As we know humans have always been seeking darkness as a way of crafting meaning. Darkness wherever we find it is a medium of vision, says author Robert MacFarlane.
‘…A day later, I meet Lisa Ray, for our talk at Tata Lit Live in Mumbai, where we recalled a story she’d told me in Goa. During her treatment for multiple myeloma, stem cell therapy dove into all her cells, canceling all until she had, in a sense, ‘died’ so she might be reborn. But in that shunya moment, on her hospital bed, a nurse chanted Buddhist mantras, filling the deep bowl of her suffering with primal sound. In Mrs. Dalloway one of the principal themes is suffering, physical as well as psychological, and Virginia Woolf was adequately in thrall of pain to write an essay ‘On Being Ill’. According to Joanna Bourke, Woolf considered it astonishing that pain did not rank up there with ‘love, battle and jealousy’ as among key themes of literature. Maybe it was awkward to talk about pain, or one was considered awkward for having talked about it; language could not serve this subject. Luckily, in Lisa’s book, Close to The Bone, she sees pain with the clear-eyed surgical detachment of a Buddhist who imagines and reimagines her death until it is no longer a thing of terror but a cause of liberation. Thank you for showing me how impulse is great than design, humor is an arc of tenderness, and beauty is a place where energy excites in its own awareness.’
#ClosetotheBone #closetotheheart @harpercollinsin
Image @thepostcarder
@latasita @nikharproartist
Happy Children’s Day from #Soleil wearing @lovetheworldtoday.in courtesy our friends @saffronstays
Too early to feel nostalgic for #Souffle’s babydom? Nah. Loving this toddler phase as I watch my girls explore their environment fearlessly on adorably sturdy legs, but every now and then I sigh remembering the first year of keeping them close to my chest while shepherding them out into the world.
Happy Children’s Day y’all
Thank you @tatalitlive and @thepostcarder for a fun and slightly ferocious session @prithvitheatre for #ClosetotheBone
Wearing @latasita upcycled sari-slacks
MUH @nikharproartist
#zerowastefashion
One of my dearest @thepostcarder wrote this meditation on loss and pain after our talk for @tatalitlive and as always I bow to his appetite for knowing and sharing, sometimes through open hearted presence, sometimes through words. Stay reckless in love and art my friend 🙏🏼 As we know humans have always been seeking darkness as a way of crafting meaning. Darkness wherever we find it is a medium of vision says author Robert MacFarlane.
‘…A day later, I meet Lisa Ray, for our talk at Tata Lit Live in Mumbai, where we recalled a story she’d told me in Goa. During her treatment for multiple myeloma, stem cell therapy dove into all her cells, canceling all until she had, in a sense, ‘died’ so she might be reborn. But in that shunya moment, on her hospital bed, a nurse chanted Buddhist mantras, filling the deep bowl of her suffering with primal sound. In Mrs. Dalloway one of the principal themes is suffering, physical as well as psychological, and Virginia Woolf was adequately in thrall of pain to write an essay ‘On Being Ill’. According to Joanna Bourke, Woolf considered it astonishing that pain did not rank up there with ‘love, battle and jealousy’ as among key themes of literature. Maybe it was awkward to talk about pain, or one was considered awkward for having talked about it; language could not serve this subject. Luckily, in Lisa’s book, Close to The Bone, she sees pain with the clear-eyed surgical detachment of a Buddhist who imagines and reimagines her death until it is no longer a thing of terror but a cause of liberation. Thank you for showing me how impulse is great than design, humor is an arc of tenderness, and beauty is a place where energy excites in its own awareness.’
#ClosetotheBone #closetotheheart @harpercollinsin
Happy Children’s Day from Sufi Rani wearing @lovetheworldtoday.in courtesy our friends @saffronstays
Thank you @pausefashion.in @dipikablacklist @coleen_khan_affonso for getting me ready for my talk @sohohousemumbai
Sufi and Soleil make their professional debut for mausi @preetasukhtankar
Repost from @thelabellife using @RepostRegramApp – We know how much you adored our past Mini Me edits and so, when our friends at @kidsstoppress introduced us to the good folk at Oui Oui (@stylemylo_official) we knew the sweetest little GIRLS collection was on the cards.
COMING SOON, in-store in Mumbai and Kolkata only.
#TheLabelLife #OuiOuiXTheLabelLife #KidsClothing #Kids #Dresses #ComingSoon #Sufi
L I N É A G E. An image of the matriarch – ‘Queen Victoria’ from my book #ClosetotheBone – of the paternal side of my bloodline. Released from the confines of an old steel trunk, it recently floated to the surface of our familial consciousness. My beloved baba is seated at the left hand corner; we conjecture he is pictured at same age as my babies, Sufi and Soleil, his grandchildren.
#CircleGame
Great to meet you @milanvohra @blrlitfest
Styled by @dipikablacklist
Wearing @raw_mango
Personally love an evening of truth talking, reading and connecting. Mix in a few cocktails and an old school library- bam.
Thanks @_sidharth_jain_ and @sohohousemumbai for hosting and all the good vibrations from members in the room 🙏🏼
#ClosetotheBone @harpercollinsin
And we’re live. New website: Lisaraywrites.com
Take a look and let me know. Link in bio.
@hellospade
Now reading this beauteous fable. So relevant.
@amruta_gauri
Repost from @poonam_stecher using @RepostRegramApp – 📖 @lisaraniray thank you for writing this book @gestures.in thank you for gifting me a signed copy. This book is so important for all of, this is reminder not to forget the person on the screen is a real person with real heart & soul. I only looked at @lisaraniray as that Beauty or that actress who was amazing in Water & that was it… now I am discovering a real person & a wonderful writer ( becoming one of favorites writer & with each page I love her more) . I love your writing, you write like a yogi being the main character of the book yet writing from an observer s point of view. The way you tell the story makes your reader to follow you on your the journey . I feel like now I have to the streets of Calcutta & Warsaw & much more. My best wishes to you & many thanks for sharing this with all of us… 🙏#lisaray #closetothebone #india #writer #story #model #book #lovelisaray #thankful
Today @prithvitheatre in conversation with @thepostcarder for @tatalitlive
Repost from @_sidharth_jain_ using @RepostRegramApp – Excited to have actor, speaker & author @lisaraniray at #SohoHouseMumbai this Tuesday for an insightful talk on her life journey. Her memoir #CloseToTheBone was recently published. @the_story_ink #TheStoryInk #BookToScreenWithTheStoryInk
Congratulations @avnidoshi on the launch of your sharply gorgeous debut novel #GirlinWhiteCotton. Wish I was there.
Book enthusiasts: don’t delay. Add this to your library velocemente.
Come on out to #MehboobStudio on December 1st for what promises to be a stimulating event conceptualizer by my friend @barkha.dutt
@wethewomenasia #wethewomen #openingdoors
Thank you my friends @saffronstays for unearthing ethical properties immersed in nature across India where one can disconnect and reconnect with ourselves and the people we love. I’ve already experienced two nourishing stays and can’t recommend the experience highly enough.
#SaffronStays #ComeBacktoYourself
Honoured to write this piece on my inspirational friend @priyankaraja co-founder of @experimenterkol for @elleindia
