Monthly Archives: May 2025

Did you learn early on that love is synonymous with sacrifice, people pleasing and succumbing to authority, Capricorn? Well, this month highlights your deeper and grander understanding of how you love and how you wish to be loved. Yes, your inner child may surface with guilt around asserting healthy boundaries and keeping yourself in the picture when you extend compassion towards others, but your angels are here to show you that love for another may not necessarily come at the cost of loving yourself. It is time to fire up creative ways of building and maintaining relationships – based on balance and mutual care. Engaging in creative activities and hobbies could really help your inner child feel safe to come out and play.

Power Crystal: Rose quartz, to help you fall in love with your inner child.

When you dare to be yourself, you have less unnecessary burdens to carry. Now, Sag, we are not advocating toxic positivity or self love – but instead, a more subdued way of remembering that it can be your way without needing to be the highway. Find a middle ground, keep pouring your effort into what you are creating, and also keep pouting and posing along the way to add a dash of fun to your existing day. As you find inner peace anchoring your everyday life, you find miraculous solutions mending broken hearts and bridges.

Cosmic tip: A personal challenge reaches a resolution.

Yet, even with experience and motherhood, the question lingers: am I good enough? “I doubt myself every day,” she says.

The self-criticism, though, never reaches a crushing nadir, à la Elisabeth Sparkle in The Substance. She doesn’t feel compelled to rip off her eyelashes or long for a new body. “I’ve never gotten Botox,” she says. “When they say I wear this or that, it’s not just about the clothes. Why can’t I simply be comfortable in my skin?”

This is why she believes no child, especially star kids, should grow up in the spotlight. Her parents had kept her and her siblings away from its harsh glare. “It’s a fishbowl that sucks you in, becoming your world. If I hadn’t gone to Arya Vidya Mandir and made normal friends, I wouldn’t be who I am today—someone who loves books, dance, music and art.”

Perhaps it’s this constant negotiation between self and performance, between the safety of home and the gaze of the world, that makes her come alive in spaces like Amdavad ni Gufa—where art and nature, structure and spontaneity entwine. Kapoor is at ease here, slipping in and out of the cave in rubber flats so that she doesn’t skid on its undulating floor. She admires Husain’s murals and Doshi’s igloo-like pillars after every change, letting her gaze linger on a galloping horse here, a sun motif there.

In a 2018 interview with the Louisiana Channel, Doshi spoke of nature’s deep influence on his work, a philosophy shaped by his time at Le Corbusier’s Paris atelier. “He sketched snakes, cockroaches, plants, water and trees, all in pursuit of one idea: integration,” Doshi said. “If you can integrate all these elements… life will happen.”

Inside the Gufa, Husain’s beetles, dancing humans and painted windows echo this vision. Outside, Kapoor poses atop its domed mosaic roof, inspired by tortoise shells and soap bubbles. Dressed in a vintage Jean-Paul Gaultier bodysuit from her personal collection and jeans embroidered with an array of signature Anamika Khanna swatches, her waist is cinched with keys and locks in the manner in which her sister remembers their nani often carrying them. As her anklets chime and she reaches for a golden beam of light, a peacock perches on the boundary wall on her left. Behind her, a dog naps on a dome and langurs swing through the neem trees. By the time the shoot wraps, last night’s stars have returned.