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Gresham Fernandes, chef-partner, Bandra Born, Mumbai T he 43-year-old Fernandes has always had avant-garde ideas—be it the Smoke House Room in Delhi, which was inspired by the organic, fluid network of fungal threads or mycelium, or the recently shuttered Salt Water Cafe, Mumbai, where European dishes met local produce. And now at Bandra Born, Fernandes celebrates the neighbourhood in which he spent his childhood, and where he learnt to celebrate fine music alongside great food. “My grandmother had five kids, and several of my uncles worked on ships as pursers.

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kurtas, all highlighting zardozi embroidery and a contemporary take on the age-old Banarasi textiles. Reddy believes that any couture showcase merits a physical showcase as one wants to touch and feel the garment. “How a couture ensemble moves on the ramp and catches light… it's important to showcase how a couture piece can be styled in innumerable ways," says Reddy, who opened her third retail store, in Mumbai's Kala Ghoda, in December, after two stores in Delhi and Hyderabad.

‘Minor Detail’: A group show interprets the meaning of home She goes on to describe how Paniker’s pedagogy opened avenues for technical and creative explorations that became a hallmark of the school, contributing towards the development of the art movement in Madras (now Chennai). Though the movement was named after the city, its fabric was determined by artists coming in from the four southern states—Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka that made up the erstwhile Madras Presidency—thus bringing in different approaches and visual vocabularies.

Ancestor (2022) looms high. This mother figure with heads of 23 children emerging from her body puts the female form front and centre. The artist had been commissioned to make this 18ft-tall painted bronze work, to be placed at the southeast entrance of New York’s Central Park—it was displayed therefrom 8 September 2022 to 27 August 2023—after she had been recovering from long covid.

As US private equity firms battle to hire junior bankers before junior bankers have even begun their jobs and as junior bankers complain that the big private equity firms aren't even reimbursing their expenses for travelling miles to interviews, maybe there's another way. Maybe you don't even have to actually work in private equity at all.

Pariksha pe Charcha' initiative might soon be recreated for a virtual platform, with the NCERT working on a proposal to develop a portal to host his speeches and allow students to capture selfies with him in an interactive 2D/3D environment. The move comes against the backdrop of a raging row over alleged irregularities in competitive examinations with the opposition raising questions on credibility of the examination processes in the country. The Opposition has taken swipes at Modi, demanding that he should hold one such interaction on medical enrance exam NEET issue as well. The National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has released an Expression of Interest (EoI) document this week to identify vendors for developing the Virtual Exhibition for Pariksha Pe Charcha.

Airlines are slowly mastering the art of upselling and are ready to offer that extra to passengers who are willing to pay more for better comfort or flexibility during their trip. Both IndiGo and Air India which fly 9 out of 10 domestic passengers are rolling out multiple types of fares, where they bundle tickets along with extras. While making it costlier for those booking a basic fare- ticket, to cancel or reschedule their flights, they are lowering these costs for the higher fare bracket topping it up with extras.

Heat (1995) gained fame because it was based on Alex Colville’s 1967 painting Pacific. Several shots in the Lars von Trier film Melancholia (2011) recreated works by artists like Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Sir John Everett Millais. Rolin Jones’ series Interview with the Vampire, based on Anne Rice’s eponymous 1976 Gothic horror novel, takes the engagement with classic art to a new level, with several shots from the series resembling baroque paintings.

Minister for Youth Affairs & Sports and Labour & Employment Mansukh Mandaviya welcomed Indian Olympic Association (IOA) President PT Usha's move to have Yoga included in the Asian Games programme. «It is only fair that, in keeping with its wide popularity, Yoga becomes a competitive sport and is in the Asian Games,» Mandaviya said as per an IOA release. The IOA President has written to the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) President Raja Randhir Singh on June 26 to consider the proposal of including Yoga as a sport in the Asian Games.

influential couple in the UK. They are not the most powerful people at least according to Tatler’s 2024 Social Power Index. Newly married Duke and Duchess of Westminster, who tied the knot in a lavish ceremony, have replaced the King and the Queen in this year's list. There are many other people on the list, and most of them are unexpected.

Mary Austin, the former fiancee of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury, is set to get £187.5 million as part of Queen's record-breaking £1 billion song catalog sale agreement with Sony. This significant amount is added to the fortune she received when Freddie passed away in 1991, and she also received further shares when his parents passed away, as per the reports of 'The Sun.'

Venice. By Dennis Romano. Oxford University Press; 800 pages; $41.95 and £31.99Visiting the Venice Biennale, one of the world’s largest art fairs that opened on April 20th and runs until late November, often evokes a disconcerting emotion. You come to see the works on display in the exhibitions that sprawl across the city, only to leave feeling guilty at having paid too little attention to the work of art that is Venice itself.Bedazzled by its loveliness and wondering at its sheer implausibility, outsiders have seldom managed to make objective appraisals.

₹1,500- ₹2,500 a month. “It’s a loop of sorts, where you first go because you want pretty nail extensions (which generally last three-four weeks, depending on maintenance), and then you revisit the salon to remove them, and then you find yourself with a new set." Alexander isn’t the only one who’s turned her nails into a canvas of self-expression. Designer Marc Jacobs has been showing off nails as long as fingers on his social media, studded with stones on a tortoise shell bed—a look inspired by a nesting table.

Banarasi saris are creative works of art that are definitely appropriate for any occasion. Nita Ambani, the founder and chairperson of the Reliance Foundation, travelled to Varanasi ahead of her son Anant Ambani's wedding to buy for saris. In Varanasi, she visited loom owners and weavers and bought between fifty and sixty saris. She selected saris and brought a number of Banarasi craftsmen and merchants to the hotel. She ordered from multiple weavers, demonstrating her sincere appreciation for their skill. Since many guests from Bollywood, Hollywood, and other countries will be attending Anant Ambani's wedding, the Banarasi sari will see an increase in demand in the global market.

Michael Jackson unexpectedly passed away in June 2009 at the age of 50, it exposed a complicated financial condition to the world. According to court records, he owed over $500 million and was deeply indebted. His lavish spending habits and legal fights have left him financially burdened despite having a lucrative career, as per the reports of 'Yahoo Finance.' Before his death, Jackson spent a great deal of time practicing for his 'This Is It' residency in London, which was a financial comeback attempt. But his debts, which amounted to $30 million a year, highlighted how desperate he was for money, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Mint, she said that the overall size of the auction market expanded by more than a fifth in 2023, from an estimated $150 million in 2022. And so far in 2024, sales have already reached $90 million. "The market has grown significantly (in value and volume) over the last four years, through the pandemic and the lockdown.

On July 1, the highly anticipated Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) will finally come into force, bringing huge change to the landscape of stablecoins and other digital assets within the European Union (EU).

Swiss museum on Thursday pulled down five paintings, including a van Gogh and a Monet, after the foundation that owns them called for a deeper look at their origins following new U.S. guidelines on how to handle artworks once confiscated by the Nazis. The Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, which owns the works formerly shown at the Kunsthaus Zurich museum, said it was looking to reach a «fair and equitable solution» with the legal successors of the former owners, who were not identified. The foundation's board called for a new assessment of the works under new "Best Practices" published by the U.S. State Department in March on how to deal with Nazi-confiscated art, as an upgrade to principles adopted in 1998.

₹1,500 a kilo at the Kolkata tea auction for their CTC tea, achieving speciality status— average prices at auction for Assam CTC is under ₹300/kilo. This got me thinking about our perception of tea, and the contradictory world of leaf tea and CTC drinkers. It’s hardly a great divide.