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Dresses are women’s best friends. But Raksha had never been obsessive about them. Only until last month, when she went hanging out with her cousin Ananya, wife of a London-based investment banker. , who picked up a dress Raksha just can’t forget.  The 23-year-old Raksha watched as her cousin tried more than a dozen dresses in a high-profile boutique in Mumbai. And the dress Ananya picked unexpectedly turned Raksha green with envy. She decided to return soon and pick a similar stuff for herself. Raksha has been working with a buying house for the past 6 months earning Rs 20,000 per month. The dress cost her cousin Rs 10,000, almost half of Raksha’s salary. NUMBERS THAT MATTER Raksha pays Rs 8,000 as rent for her sharing accommo...

Divorce, or the end of an emotional and legally recognised relationship between a man and a woman is perhaps one of the most painful events in a person’s adult life. We can prevent it from happening by handling sticky situations with some calm and wit. But as we all know there are times when things become unavoidable. Then the intelligent move will be to prepare yourself for the unpleasant situation rather brood over it. STOP LIVING IN DENIAL Once you finally recognise the marriage is not working out after you have genuinely tried to save it, start preparing for its demise, before your partner and the situation overwhelm you. And quicker you are in preparing yourself for the agony ahead, better you can handle yourself mentally, psycho...

Got a date? Is it making you sweat? Well, a bit of sweat is just fine. It indicates you are taking it seriously. But you need to wipe it off. Calm down. It’s not so difficult after all. Well ofcourse there are a lot of things you are worried about ranging from what to wear, how to behave etc. But now that you are a MoneyQuin follower, we’ll sort everything. Let’s begin with dressing up: What to Wear: Be simple. Don’t deck up. Don’t wear too much jewellery. Let it be earrings, a light necklace and few bangles if you can’t do without jewellery at all. Otherwise gorgeous and some lipstick with rags will still grab his attention. Smell: Put mild perfume in moderate dose. Don’t smell too strong. Don’t wear clothes that make you look o...

Parenting or should we say mothering teenagers has been a challenge through ages. We prefer to use mothering, as generally dads are busy with making moolah while the moms, even though working, deal directly with their teenage children. Now talking about challenges, it’s a bigger challenge in a country like India with its ever evolving culture and society. As we open to global (read western) ways of life, our teenagers are becoming more independent and liberal. Though there’s also a culture of more teenagers picking up vocational jobs, but that’s just vocational, limited to a couple of months. For the rest of the year, they depend on pocket money to take care of their ever increasing needs. In such a scenario, it’s not wise to deny th...

Though the pat on my shoulder was not a particularly heavy one, it startled me. I guess the delicious tuna tetrazzini was to blame for this. It involved me quite a bit. However, before I could get into the blame-game, I found Rakshanda beside me. That afternoon I had unexpectedly landed up in this restaurant and as I ate, I had secretly wished for company. So I was absolutely delighted to see Rakshanda. But she was not so happy, it seemed. I asked her the reason. Hesitant in the beginning, she opened up gradually. Last evening she had bought an evening gown. Her husband, without even taking a good look at the dress, said, “It’s the tenth and the house rent is not yet paid. The landlord has called me thrice today. It’s so embarrassing...

It’s eight o’clock in the night. Pie is packing her school bag. She is about to switch off the lights of her room when the door bell rings. Her mama opens the door. It’s Jia. She is crying!“O! Why are you crying? What happened?” Pie’s mama asks. Pie hears this and comes running out of her room. Jia says, “I have lost my money.” She had 200 rupees which she had kept in her little wooden box. She had got this money from her Papa for getting good marks in class test.Pie’s mama asks, “Did you look for it on your table and in other rooms?” Jia said yes. Then Pie asks if she asked her mama and papa about the money. Jia says they have gone for a party. Pie tells her not to cry. They will search for the money. Then she says that Jia should...