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Vikrant Patankar on making films, and figuring out how far an obsession can take him
Vikrant Patankar talks about learning cinema on his own, directing children, making musicals for tech companies, living with AI without surrendering to it, and why he still wants people to gather in a dark theatre
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Filmmaker AK Srikanth on his debut novel, A Song for Eresha
A Song for Eresha, AK Srikanth’s debut novel, follows a Bharatanatyam dancer whose ordered life is unsettled by her feelings for a young student. The author and filmmaker speaks about adapting the story for two forms, writing desire through silence, and creating a landscape governed by water
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Chef Kulsum Begum, Chef Maliha Khan bring Hyderabad’s Salar Jung heirloom recipes to Chor Bizarre
Chef Kulsum Begum and Chef Maliha Khan bring generations of closely guarded Salar Jung recipes to Delhi, opening up a lesser-known world of Hyderabadi aristocratic cooking, its techniques, memories and inherited tastes
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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?
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Odin’s Ode, The Perishing: Two poems by Jarat Chopra
Being a poem about a dog, writing a poem about a stick
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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.
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