The year that was...

Two weeks ago I was in Chennai and had the pleasure of meeting Visalakshi Ramaswamy. She is the founder of the M.Rm.Rm foundation that makes these wonderful baskets that are sold at The Secret Garden. She has always been an inspiration for me...someone who took a traditional craft and gave it the necessary design and color intervention to create products that are truly unique. It always makes me happy when I travel around and I see a product from the foundation. I am grateful that being a part of The Secret Garden allows me to meet these wonderful people who are doing so much for Indian craft.


     2012 will always be a very important year for me...my life took a lot of changes, there were good things, bad things, lots of mundane things...one of the best things that happened to me this year was The Secret Garden. The idea was in my head for so long, but its time came only this year...and it has been such a great source of joy for me...looking for products, meeting craftsmen, traveling to various exhibitions...all the good parts, then there have been the boring accounts, administrative tasks, and little things I cant even remember...there haven't been too many but there have definitely been the hard parts of making wrong decisions, taking on products I couldn't sell, relationships which just did not work...through all of this there has been so many memories made, so many things learnt and so much more to look forward to...