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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. For more than two years, Jared Kushner has sought to build a Trump-branded complex of towers in a central Belgrade site once bombed by NATO. But the plans have run into a lot of local resistance.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. In 2015, the Serendipity Arts Festival was envisaged as a project that would bring the arts out of rigid compartments. According to Smriti Rajgarhia, director, Serendipity Arts Foundation and Festival, the decision to create these conversations between art forms wasn’t arbitrary but about restoring something fundamental.

In a Netflix documentary that celebrates one hundred years of The New Yorker magazine, its staff writer Andrew Marantz says that he has often been in places where people would say “All you elite [expletive], you don’t know the first thing” about America. It is the kind of magazine, he says, that would faithfully quote that expletive, but place an accent on the first ‘e’ of elite, thereby confirming at least one part of the abuse.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. In her ongoing solo, The Geometry of Ash, at Mumbai’s Chemould Prescott Road, artist Anju Dodiya evokes a post-apocalyptic landscape—one featuring fragments and residue in the aftermath of loss and destruction. But there are also gestures of hope in the form of women reading or relishing a moment of respite before a traumatic event.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. When he was around 10 years of age, Thoudam Victor would play football for hours with his friends in Imphal. A break between games meant running to the river, which flowed next to the playground, with his friends, drinking the sweet water and splashing some of it on his face.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Three years before his death in 2011, celebrated artist Maqbool Fida Husain penned the following lines on the margins of a sketch, “May I present for the kind glance of Her Highness a concept of ART COMPLEX, my dream to educate and entertain. Being a painter’s museum, colours’ play in architectural concept has to be predominant." Addressed to his patron, Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, chairperson of the Qatar Foundation, the drawing depicted Husain’s vision of a museum dedicated to his two passions: art and cinema.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Like all the old Hollywood studios, Warner Bros. has taken a twisted path into the present, filled with mergers and acquisitions—the latest a proposed sale to Netflix for $82.7 billion, including assumed debt.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. A small clearing within the lush environs of a park located along the Mandovi riverfront in Panaji featured a wooden structure with steps running along one side and clay pots scattered across the floor.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The Kochi-Muziris Biennale is seeking redemption after a rough 2022-edition plagued by infrastructural challenges and logistical delays. As ripples of this chaos were palpable in the ensuing months, the team took a brief interlude to reassess, rethink and reimagine the biennale, which is now back with a new spirit.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Waves of white caught the eye as soon as you entered Gallery Threshold in Delhi. Undulating sheets hang suspended from the ceiling.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. MUCH OF THE art of medicine involves working out, through detailed questioning and physical examination, which disease a given patient has contracted. Far harder, but no less desirable, would be identifying which diseases a patient might develop in the future.

OpenAI is struggling to convert that momentum into meaningful revenue, TechCrunch reported, citing third-party data. Despite rising engagement, subscription income from India remains a fraction of what the company earns in the United States. Strong adoption, limited monetisation According to analytics firm SensorTower, Indian users have spent $8 million on ChatGPT subscriptions via in-app payments since 2023, excluding web-based payments. In contrast, US users have spent around $330 million during the same period.

Bikaner House on a late spring evening, The Quiet Interlude came into its own. Reflective canvases beckoned, time expanded and contracted, and the solitary viewer got drawn into the Yantra and Tantra, the yin and yang, and the madhya point of stillness so central to Trishla Jain’s artistic endeavour.

As the wedding industry continues to evolve, so does the art of capturing one of life’s most significant days. Over the last few years, wedding photography trends have moved beyond posed portraits and static compositions to more contemporary styles that embrace storytelling, raw emotion. Today’s couples are no longer content with generic, cookie-cutter images. Instead, they seek authenticity, spontaneity, and photos that spin a visual narrative of their love story. In this feature, we explore the wedding photography trends making waves this season. These are trends that not only reflect shifting aesthetics but also the changing expectations of modern couples. From the rise of documentary-style captures to the resurgence of vintage influences, these trends offer a fresh lens on how love is being documented in 2025.

Shah was on a two-day visit to Chhattisgarh. He has set a deadline of March 31, 2026, to make the country free of left-wing extremists. He said 521 Naxalites have surrendered so far this year, while 881 Naxalites surrendered in 2024. «Shah expressed confidence that those Naxalites who lay down their arms will be able to join the mainstream and progress, but those who choose the path of violence by picking up weapons will be dealt with strictly by the security forces,» said an official statement. The home minister said no one wants to harm anyone, and therefore Naxalites should abandon violence and come into the mainstream, as both the Union government and the Chhattisgarh government will provide them protection. He also said that starting next year, artists from every tribal district of the country will be included in the Bastar Pandum, an annual event to showcase the traditions, culture and art of Bastar.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. You could be a CEO or a recruit still wet behind the ears, but appraisal time brings in a bout of the heebie jeebies that spare few. The appraisal process can be cumbersome.

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Anurupa Roy, a puppeteer and theatre practitioner, is an integral part of the performing arts ecosystem in India. She set up Katkatha, an organisation for the promotion and preservation of the puppet arts in India, 26 years ago.

Between the conception And the creation Between the emotion And the response Falls the Shadow — The Hollow Men, TS Eliot “I think of my works as meditation, [samadhi],” says Trishla Jain. And it shows. Looking at her canvases, you realise two processes are at work — one, the very essence of the creative process that takes form in her paintings is on display; two, this process is reversed by an active act of immersion for the viewer who now becomes part of the creative process. In other words, we are in the Shadow zone — the breather — between conception and creation, between emotion and its response.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Ever since OpenAI launched ChatGPT in 2022, this chatbot has wormed its way into every other conversation with its wonders of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI). Over the past week, an online frenzy to post photos in the animation style of Japan’s Studio Ghibli has seen this tool’s usage surge.