Our Newsletter
A Weekly Newsletter by Viv & Ami
We began this labour of love, as a way to share with our friends all the ways in which we revel in life’s little pleasures - cooking, art, music, design - away from the doom-scrolling of gloomy headlines.Alongside our curated list from the internet of our favourite things, we also share our experience of being female entrepreneurs in India; the highs and pitfalls, challenges and wins and perhaps some nuggets of wisdom we’ve learned as we’ve fumbled through this journey.In business, as in life, there are very few sure things. Plans can go poof, sales projections can be wrong, circumstances can change and that rainy day fund you collected at the back of your safe can evaporate. However, according...
The Delights of Distraction
By Viv & Ami
26th
July
2022
They say when it rains, it pours. Though it literally may not be true for Delhi this week (we could use more rain), it felt that way figuratively as far as The Wishing Chair was concerned. June was a month...
The Delights of Distraction
By Viv & Ami
3rd
July
2022
It’s Father’s day today. So we thought we would kick off the newsletter with this poem: Those Winter Sundays Sundays too my father got up earlyand put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,then with cracked hands that achedfrom labor...
The Delights of Distraction
By Viv & Ami
19th
June
2022
Hello from a mist-laden, lake-front coffee-shop in Chiang Mai where we are perched on cushioned day beds shaded by willow trees sipping on Iced Caramel Macchiatos and feeling guiltily smug about escaping to this paradise while a dusty heat wave...
The Delights of Distraction
By Viv & Ami
12th
June
2022
This week’s newsletter ended up being quite wordy, so we’ll keep the introduction short other than to tell you that we have FINALLY booked our tickets for Thailand this week. We were supposed to leave for Thailand to meet our...
The Delights of Distraction
By Viv & Ami
12th
June
2022
Three days ago, a dear, dear uncle of ours passed away suddenly. He and Ami’s father were pilots in the Indian Air Force, and shared the kind of maverick misadventures and camaraderie that only comes from extreme conditions in close...
The Delights of Distraction
By Avneet Mann
29th
May
2022
It took us years to get comfortable with sharing who we are online. To show up as our personal selves and co-founders of the brand. Viv & Ami only appeared on your radar eight years after we launched The Wishing...
The Delights of Distraction
By Avneet Mann
29th
May
2022
It’s Mother’s day today. It’s the only time of the year in which we, at The Wishing Chair, hold a sale. We rarely ever go on sale otherwise; as we believe in offering the best prices we can throughout the...
The Delights of Distraction
By Viv & Ami
8th
May
2022