...Look Back To Look Ahead
VOGUE India|October 2017

“What possible evolutionary purpose could nostalgia serve?” asked Julian Barnes in Sense Of An Ending. But what if it did? What if you could pluck out some wisdom from your present and offer it to your past? MIRA KULKARNI, founder of Forest Essentials, pens a letter to her 13-year-old self

Nidhi Sharma
...Look Back To Look Ahead
I want to tell you that every experience you will go through now will impact your life later in some way. Some good, some not so much.

At thirteen, we cut to boarding school.

It was so not fashionable to use the hand-ground ubtan biji used to send with instructions not to use anything else to wash your face. You could hear the whispers... eeks, what’s that! But you had promised her and you used it.

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