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How Vandna Khera’s Ranng is rethinking what workwear should do
From a small design studio in 1994 to a workwear business producing at scale for aviation, hospitality, healthcare and industry, Ranng has travelled a long way. But founder and designer Vandna Khera says the question she still begins with is: who is going to wear this, and what will their day actually be like?
Read more >>Maaz Bin Bilal interview: On Allah Miyan’s Workshop, Urdu, Ghalib, and translation
As ‘Allah Miyan’s Workshop’ brings Mohsin Khan’s Urdu novel to English, the poet-translator speaks about the childhood and questions at its heart, memory, Ghalib, Ballimaran and the continuing conversation between Urdu and English
Read more >>Macros keeps skincare simple, and the night wipes are the real deal
The new skin-fitness brand pares the routine down to two products: an Active Concentrate Face Gel for mornings and serum-soaked Recovery Wipes at night. I tried both, and one they did make a difference
Read more >>Ananda Shankar Jayant interview: ‘Dance teaches you to stay the course’
Dancer-choreographer-bureaucrat Ananda Shankar Jayant talks about confronting cancer without allowing it to define her, the changing world of classical dance, the need to support the arts, and the responsibility of passing India’s cultural inheritance to the next generation
Read more >>12 contemporary dining tables that put material and craft first
From live-edge timber and white ash to marble, travertine and concrete, these contemporary dining tables bring together strong materials, sculptural forms and everyday function
Read more >>Sigrid Nunez’s It Will Come Back to You: Minimalist prose, layered emotions and fractured lives
Across 13 stories, Sigrid Nunez writes about memory, love, loss, moral ambiguity and the ordinary lives we piece together, using lucid sentences and the autobiographical mode that has long marked her fiction
Read more >>Coffee, with a shot of protein: Barista bets on the new café consumer
Barista Coffee CEO Rajat Agrawal talks about the Yoga Bar partnership for two new protein-loaded drinks, changing menus, smaller-city consumers, competition, and more
Read more >>Odin’s Ode, The Perishing: Two poems by Jarat Chopra
Being a poem about a dog, writing a poem about a stick
Read more >>The Bubble and other poems by Ajish Sashidharan
These poems dwell on loneliness, friendship, hope, loss and the passage of time. Using simple images — a bubble, leaves, a flower and a clock — they reflect on how fragile life and relationships can be, and on the human need to endure, connect and find meaning before things pass.
Read more >>At JW Marriott Aerocity’s K3, The Caspian Table brings a taste of Baku and Tbilisi to Delhi
For five days, JW Marriott New Delhi Aerocity’s K3 turns its attention to Georgia and Azerbaijan, with visiting chefs Asif Hidayetov and Latif Meybullayev bringing breads, grills, stews, saffron rice, herbs and the generous food of the Caucasus to the table
Read more >>‘Everything needs to be re-examined,’ Neville Tuli on SWARAJ, memory, education and learning from visuals
The curator and archivist speaks about our inability to read images, the loss of memory in the age of AI, what Indian education has got wrong, and why Saraswati and Lakshmi must sometimes share the same sofa
Read more >>Subodh Gupta interview: ‘Even the most ordinary objects can carry extraordinary human histories’
As ‘Family Tree’ is installed in Riyadh, the artists looks back on his journey from Bihar to the international art world, the kitchen vessels and humble materials that have shaped his practice, the ideas of home, memory, migration, labour, faith and loss running through his work, and more
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