MATRIMONIALS

Seeking Grooms

Seeking suitable professional boy born and brought up in Australia for young attractive girl, never married, 31, 5'2". Looks much younger, born and brought up in Sydney. Professional educator, Hindu Indian well settled family. Please email to rtmkh8064@gmail.com or call 0426 180 427.

Dubai based 40-year-old single, never married girl seeks suitable match. Born and educated in Mumbai, Gujarati, 5'4" and working for MNC seeks Hindu grooms. Please contact brother on 0412346590 or email directly on komaldxb@gmail.com

Wanted a suitable match for 39 year old Brahmin girl 5'4" fair complexion, well settled in Australia, having government job and has own residential property. Contact kumar.sham@bigpond.com

Seeking suitable match for Brahmin girl, 33, 5'4", Australian citizen, divorced, short marriage. Pursuing Australian Dental Registration exam and working as casual dental teacher in Sydney. Well qualified, issueless, professionally settled match may contact rajk.nsw@gmail.com or call +61 468342814.

Beautiful, highly educated with very good family background, soft spoken, career oriented 33-year-old vegetarian Brahmin girl working, well settled in Sydney seeking an educated, teetotaller with good family background boy. Prefer Australian Citizen or PR. Please contact rajsyd83@gmail.com

Seeking professionally qualified match for attractive girl. Legally separated, no kids. 35-years, 5'3", working as Lead Legal Counsel in reputed investment firm at Gurgaon. Hindu family settled in Gurgaon. Email: satinder.neelam@gmail.com; Phone: +919818885477

Seeking Brides

Wanted suitable match for 35-year-old Brahmin boy 5'8" fair complexion, well settled in Australia, having his own successful business. Contact kumar.sham@bigpond.com

BY KALYANI WAKHARE

Shopping! Just the word gives me an instant shot of pleasure, albeit short lived pleasure. Why short lived, you ask? Well, picture this – you are having a crappy day at work and you just decide to indulge in a brand-new pair of shoes. They give you an instant high. You feel splendid in your new shoes for a few days and then the excitement dies down. How many times have you looked at your brimming wardrobe and decided you have nothing to wear. Then, you shopped a bit more but ended up on a guilt trip because your bank statement revealed how much you spent! This was me. I had myriad reasons for shopping- a sale, therapy, birthday, anniversary, Mother’s Day and so on. But I was fooling myself. I was not happy, no matter how much I shopped.

Fashion waste, Marie Kondo and energy

Recently my daughter had to watch ABC’s War on Waste ‘series as part of her school assessment. We got interested, fascinated and then shocked at the stats on fast fashion - 85% textiles purchased by Aussies are sent to landfill every year. Fast fashion utilises fibres like nylon, acrylic and polyester that are petroleum derived and will take up to 1000 years to biodegrade. Fast fashion’s social impact is negative too. 80% of these clothes are made in Asia by exploited young women living in poverty. But I realised