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How to Travel Like an IB Mum (Condé Nast Traveller)

April 11, 2022
How to travel like IB Mum
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Or, shall we say, how to arrive like one? Shunali Khullar Shroff writes……

You might have spotted her on a flight, clad in Chanel and carrying a Birkin made of some exotic animal skin, taking her children in First-Class comfort to Denmark for football camp, to Seychelles for a scuba-diving trip or for an art workshop in a small town outside Paris. This formidably fashionable woman I speak of is the IB mum, a highly evolved species that is now emerging in India.

Ever since International Baccalaureate schools dropped anchor in our country, most big cities began to have two summers. One belonged to parents of children in the time-tested ICSE/CBSE schools, and the other, to IB parents

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Shunali is the author of the bestselling books Love in the Time of Affluenza and Battle Hymn of a Bewildered Mother. She writes regularly for a host of publications including the Conde Nast Traveller, HT Brunch, Elle, Vogue, Mint Lounge and The Quint on travel, culture, modern Indian life and feminism. Shunali lives in Mumbai with her somewhat itinerant family and needy dogs.

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