The Art of Expression at the Serendipity Arts Festival 2019
A festival round-up of what pleased my eyes and mind.
The Telegraph / January 2020
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A festival round-up of what pleased my eyes and mind.
The Telegraph / January 2020
Plus Noel Gallagher made a guest appearance, though just for one song
The Telegraph / December 2019 / [Jpeg , 241 KB]
On the heels of Experimenter Curator Hub, Natasha Ginwala, Zoe Butt and Paz Guevera on their curatorial practices and experiences
The Telegraph / November 2019 / [Jpeg , 383 KB]
Smriti Rajgarhia, director, Serendipity Arts Festival, on the ‘what’ and ‘how’ of the festival
The Telegraph / November 2019
The couturier-duo on making pret
The Telegraph / November 2019 / [Jpeg , 292 KB]
Good Earth celebrates 10 years of Sustain with their stunning Sindhu showcase
The Telegraph / November 2019 / [Jpeg , 252 KB]
The singer on 'with you/for you', his new tour and making new music
The Telegraph / October 2019 / [Jpeg , 370 KB]
From the buzzing F&B scene of Melbourne to a wine-rich Yarra Valley, Victoria is a treasure trove for foodies
The Telegraph / September 2019
Four-time Nat'l Award-winning designer Neeta Lulla on juggling Bollywood and mainstream fashion
The Telegraph / September 2019 / [Jpeg , 390 KB]
From sports essential to fashion must, what's the secret and the business behind the rise of sneakers?
The Telegraph / August 2019
Three menswear designers or making men dapper
The Telegraph / August 2019 / [Jpeg , 435 KB]
Home to AC/DC, the Australian Open and the majestic Melbourne Cricket Ground, there's nothing not to love about Melbourne.
The Telegraph / August 2019
One is a stalwart of the corporate world while the other gave up a career there to start penning his books
The Telegraph / August 2019
Adman Prahlad Kakkar talks about his love for ads and the ocean
The Telegraph / August 2019
Acid-attack victim Laxmi Agarwal on loving her face and trying to get the judiciary make laws in favour of burn victims.
The Telegraph / August 2019 / [Jpeg , 345 KB]
San Francisco's Taj Campton Place, helmed by Gopinathan, just won their second Michelin star
The Telegraph / July 2019 / [Jpeg , 263 KB]
He has made mythology attractive to GenY and believes that there are more stories in his head than he can tell in his lifetime
The Telegraph / August 2019
Accompanied by Shantanu Pandit and Dhruv Bhola, Ditty was in Calcutta to perform a playlist from her album, Poetry Ceylon
The Telegraph / July 2019 / [Jpeg , 313 KB]
A peek at the woman behind the scenes
The Telegraph / July 2019 / [Jpeg , 303 KB]
Fresh from the Venice Biennale, photographer Soham Gupta talks about his artistic expression
The Telegraph / July 2019 / [Jpeg , 261 KB]
Designer Ujjawal Dubey of Antar-Agni in a tete-a-tete
The Telegraph / June 2019 / [Jpeg , 368 KB]
Artist Shilo Shiv Suleman is on a quest
The Telegraph / June 2019
The leading couturier talks fashion, royalty and legacy
The Telegraph / May 2019
Belvedere’s Studio B is buzzing with this creative quartet
The Telegraph / April 2019
Modern interpretations of a 17th Century art form that originated in Udaipur’s Nathdwara where the artists would painstakingly depict stories of Krishna traditionally on cloth and hang it behind the idol of Srinathji
The Telegraph / May 2019
Why do Hollywood A-listers, supermodels and pop stars love London based haute couture label Aadnevik? t2oS finds out
The Telegraph / March 2019
A chat with the man behind the album that's fast becoming the anthem of the underdog
The Telegraph / March 2019
Inside the world of Guerrilla Girls — an anonymous feminist artist ensemble that has been shaking up the art-world for over three decades
The Telegraph / March 2019
Snapshots from the opening ceremony and the musts on your art list
The Telegraph / February 2019 / [Jpg , 655 KB]
She also happens to be Kochi-Muziris Biennale's first female curator, a role that she takes "seriously".
The Telegraph / November 2018 / [Jpeg , 198 KB]
For scenographer Swarup Dutta, questions on identity were a natural reaction to his socio-political being, with about 20 years in the arts, be it fashion, design, scenography or teaching. We delve deeper.
The Telegraph / November 2018 / [Jpeg , 202 KB]
Behind what has perhaps become the biggest rage of the discernible music scene of the country since December 2018 is a 28-year-old bloke looking to write from his heart and make the world listen, the Bollywood shebang included.
The Telegraph / January 2019 / [Jpg , 365 KB]
Shashi Tharoor on his book, 'The Paradoxical Prime Minister: Narendra Modi and his India'
The Telegraph / December 2018
Excerpts from a chat with Aatish Taseer as his latest book The Twice-Born: Life and Death on the Ganges, hits book shelves.
The Telegraph / February 2019 / [Jpeg , 345 KB]
Critically acclaimed British satirist, host of the international hit podcast The Bugle, cricket commentator and broadcaster Andy Zaltzman was in the city for a live recording for the Calcutta leg of BBC Radio 4's Empire-ical Evidence.
The Telegraph / October 2018 / [Jpeg , 264 KB]
The story behind the creation of a sub-culture, helmed by Bhaane.
The Telegraph / January 2019 / [Jpeg , 257 KB]
What happens when a group of women decide to let go of all the negativity surrounding them and embrace the positive? They tap into their potential and unleash the power to make art.
The Telegraph / March 2018
Some of the top hotels around the globe bear his signature touch as well as something as small as an espresso machine.
The Telegraph / December 2017
Delhi-based art collector Shalini Passi, a patron of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, talks all things art
The Telegraph / November 2018
As an electronic musician, he likes to weave his surroundings into his creative work, like the sound of trucks lumbering on the roads of Tehran; as an artiste, he refuses to be compartmentalised, and often tweaks Johnny Cash lyrics to fit his sound.
The Telegraph / June 2018
What drives dancer Daksha Sheth even after five decades is the desire to create a new language of movement
The Telegraph / April 2018
Metro-sexual, free-spirited and well-turned out are the buzz words now.
The Telegraph / June 2018
When we met Italian dancer Stefano Fardelli, he had just walked into The Doodle Room in Hazra with the swagger of a fashion model dressed in all black, his affability belying the fact that he had just been fleeced by a local cabbie on a trip to the Victor
The Telegraph / June 2018
Like her dad, young author Zuni Chopra wants to chase excellence
The Telegraph / June 2018
Tucked away in a quiet south Calcutta bylane, Experimenter's second home opens doors with "I Wish To Let You Fall Out Of My Hand -- II"
The Telegraph / March 2018
Kunal Kapur got into an animated discussion on cooking, food trends and his latest show Curries of India
The Telegraph / June 2018
In conversation with Mohsin Hamid after Exit West got onto the Man Booker shorlist.
The Telegraph / October 2017
Meet Brown Boy founder Prateek Kayan, who left a cushy American job to set up shop at home.
The Telegraph / March 2018 / [Jpg , 0 Bytes]
A city brand's quest to change the world, one bag at a time
The Telegraph / July 2017
I am comfortable with the idea of home being a fluid concept, which you carry around wherever you go — Kamila Shamsie turns the page with t2
The Telegraph / August 2017
A look into the obscenity of religious donations.
DNA / March 2017
In 1955, Parisians were taken aback by a novel so crude in its subject and so offensive in its content but so utterly beautiful in its wordplay that their curiosity alone propelled the novel to fame.
The New Indian Express / April 2017
As ironic as it sounds, Dickens’ malevolent character is well-loved in literature
The New Indian Express / March 2017
A story of women empowering and saving a village from the clutches of trafficking
Firstpost / February 2017
Acid-attack laws put under the scanner
Firstpost / February 2017
Capote’s ‘heroine’ inspired women of the time but he gives no hint whether she finds what she is looking for
The New Indian Express / March 2016
It’s ridiculous that even after 106 years of the strike by the Ladies Worker’s Garment’s Union in America, we still have the need to commemorate Women’s Day as a reminder that we need our rights.
The New Indian Express / March 2015
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