Dear Reader,

This Diwali give the ol’ mithai boxes and family sized juice packs a miss and offer friends and family organic and eco friendly gifts. Believe you me, they will not miss the preservatives and diabetes. Read our feature ‘5 AMAZING GIFTING OPTIONS FOR DIWALI’ to get a sense of the direction you could go in with regards to gift shopping for loved ones.

Doing the right thing doesn’t need to be boring nor buying the right stuff. We’ve introduced a new pictorial segment called ‘THE ORGANIC LIFE’ in which we curate organic, green and eco products across categories to save you the agony of mundane research.

Those of you that are sick of going to supermarkets and seeing scattered ranges of organic products every time and never quite finding everything you wanted, we bring to you our feature ‘PIMP YOUR KITCHEN SHELF’. Read this article to learn which online organic stores are stocking what products and which brands. Use it as your retail compass the next time you need to stock up.

Furthermore, we are very excited to bring to you our new exciting section called CONSUMERS SPEAK, wherein fellow consumers of organic and natural products will discuss a given topic in every issue. Learn what others opine, buy and want. If you’re a consumer, do write in to participate in this section. We so need to represent your voice!

And lastly, those of you that are keen to see India progress in its organic trajectory to the top, do read our story ‘Task Force Recommendations on Organic Farming in India’ , which lists the recommendations of the task force constituted by India’s Agriculture Ministry to render recommendations on expansion of organic farming.

But that’s not all—Food Review, Organic Recipes, Features, Interviews—there’s plenty more inside. Have a blast this Diwali, and hopefully not with crackers.

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