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Business News > Mint Authors > Manju Sara Rajan

Manju Sara Rajan

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ARTICLES BY MANJU SARA RAJAN

Spaces use sound and scent as a way of asserting themselves, particularly on new inhabitants. Photo: Pixabay

How sound and smell define the spaces we inhabit

4 min read . 16 Mar 2025

Design ought to consider the practice of living a little bit more than just the aesthetics of it. Photo: iSTOCKPHOTO

Designing a home that makes space for the humanity of the residents

4 min read . 26 Feb 2025

Designer Pavitra Rajaram's home is a perfectly balanced combination of objects and colours. (Photographs by Shamanth Patil)

Create spaces that reflect your personality

5 min read . 19 Jan 2025

In India we are also undisputably lucky to be able to have things made to measure. Photo: iSTOCKPHOTO

Everything that can go wrong in your dream space

1 min read . 17 Nov 2024

From the Ravi Vazirani Studio booth at India Design, Mumbai

Why handmade is the new luxury

5 min read . 13 Nov 2024

For a home to feel like a shelter, it must incite an emotional response, Last thing you want is to have a space that looks as picture perfect as a Pinterest board. (iStockphoto)

Homes should reflect character and intimacy

5 min read . 16 Sep 2024

Read up on the architect or designer, and if possible, visit older sites and search out real-experience reviews from people who have been clients. (iStock)

Choose the right partner to build your home

5 min read . 11 Aug 2024

Before covid, the office felt like an essential part of the work life of a professional (iStock)

Turn your office into a homely one

5 min read . 13 Jul 2024

There’s more to creating a nurturing space than the sum of its practicalities. (iStockphoto)

Understanding the emotional quotient of a home

6 min read . 08 Jun 2024

The Americano restaurant in Mumbai with dark blue colours offset by gentle light.

Create space for the warmth of shadows

6 min read . 11 May 2024

A space should speak of the culture and place it is born in. (Courtesy Asian Paints)

Over-styled interiors can be boring, try goblin mode

4 min read . 10 Mar 2024

The Serenity Art booth at the India Art Fair. (Courtesy India Art Fair)

Your art collection can tell the story of your life

6 min read . 10 Feb 2024

A painting by Pavan Kavitkar.

Be curious, ask questions, buy art you love

5 min read . 21 Jan 2024

There is an element of performance in most interior design projects in India now (iStockphoto)

Interior design should bring character into homes to represent its people

5 min read . 09 Dec 2023

I can see how my homes and my inclination towards certain types of furniture have been greatly influenced by two childhood Kerala homes. (iStockphoto.)

Children's Special 2023: Nature and nurture hone our taste

6 min read . 13 Nov 2023

The kitchen shelves are filled with different sets of glasses for friends (Manju Sara Rajan)

Designing for friends in the single life

6 min read . 14 Oct 2023

Kindred House, designed by Anagram Architects. (Anagram Architects)

Creating intimacy in a home takes some planning

6 min read . 15 Sep 2023

Art on the walls of the writer's living room. Apply large swathes of different shades of the base colour you want on your walls and see it in both natural and artificial light before you finalise a shade. (Courtesy Manju Sara Rajan)

Designing a home? Figure out how you want to L.I.V.E

5 min read . 24 Aug 2023

Small talk: Upadhyay says his babies are not sweet.

The baby machine

2 min read . 09 Feb 2008

Red brigade: Kapoor’s Red Homeland is estimated at above $80,000.

Straight from the heart

2 min read . 07 Feb 2008