Bibekananda Patra

Do you know the most stressful part of organising a fashion show, asked a designer at the recently concluded Wills Lifestyle India Fashion week. Before I could say it must be designing the clothes or finishing them in time for the show, he revealed, "It's the stress of whom to seat in the front row!".

So great is our passion for doing things for ourselves, that we are becoming increasingly less dependent on specialised labour. No one can plead ignorance of a subject any longer, for there are countless do-it your-self publications. Armed with the right tools and materials, newly weds gaily embarks on the task of decorating their own homes.