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Decor

Rhea Kapoor, Shreya Mantri collab on a chic home decor collection

Sometimes, all one needs to change lanes from being a customer to becoming a collaborator is one good product. For fashion and interior designer Rhea Kapoor, it was Altrove’s signature papier mache vases. Kapoor had been a patron of the Pune-based home linen and accessories brand for over six months, before she decided to join […]

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Art

DAG presents Histories in the Making

Stirring visuals have always textured our understanding of history, and the landmark exhibition on photography from the house of DAG, Histories in the Making: Photographing Indian Monuments 1855-1920, takes us through the corridors of such carefully preserved memories that have shaped our perceptions and given texture to our imaginations. These precious picks — some of the earliest photographs of […]

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Celebrity Food

Virgilio Martinez: Seated on a pinnacle

Chef Virgilio Martinez uses the Andes mountains, the Amazon river and rainforests, and the Pacific Ocean as his grocery store. It is simply impossible to separate the chef from the artist when it comes to the Michelin-starred Virgilio Martinez—Peru’s de facto culinary ambassador, whose restaurant Central, in Lima, was judged the ‘World’s Best Restaurant 2023’, […]

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Fashion

Peplum Power

Many celebrities in India and outside have flaunted the peplum look this year. Actor Priyanka Chopra wore a black peplum gown at a Bulgari event a few months ago. Actor and entrepreneur Shilpa Shetty was spotted in a p-corset. YouTuber Navya Naveli Nanda paired a peplum top with a flowy skirt. Hollywood star Emma Stone […]

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Celebrity

Sonu Sood: On falling in love with Kaza

He is the tough guy with a heart of gold, towering above all, exuding an enviable wattage that goes beyond the silver screen, with genuine admirers growing by the million in India and beyond.  Actor, hero and entrepreneur Sonu Sood is in a league unto himself. With reasons enough. As an actor, Sonu has worked […]

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Food

Breakfast or brunch at the new Poetry cafe

Here is a café that puts your mind on vacation amidst the hammering of the rain. Pools of hissing cappuccino, crisp scones cushioned with clotted cream, the nostalgia of nourishing conversations (now going extinct with the screen obsessions, but hola! here, refreshingly, laptops are persona non grata): Poetry by Love & Cheesecake arrives as a charming […]