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Kerala's tranquil village life is warming hearts across the internet. Oliver, a UK native, along with his Indian wife Rishni, has been documenting their idyllic two-month stay with her grandmother — offering a charming glimpse into the art of slow living.

Leo, nestled in Bogota's upscale Chapinero district in the Colombian capital, takes diners on a culinary expedition through the country's diverse biomes. Helmed by chef Leonor Espinosa — voted World's Best Female Chef 2022 by 'The World's 50 Best Restaurants' jury — this acclaimed restaurant spotlights rare local ingredients like copoazu (cacao relative), arrechon (aphrodisiac drink) and bijao (banana-like plant). Espinosa, an economist and artist by training, weaves anthropology and contemporary art into her dishes and the restaurant's sleek, modern setting. The tasting menus — 8 or 13 courses — are a masterclass in creative gastronomy. Delicate starters include mussels with coconut and Galerazamba salt, dried shrimp with snails and ants, the latter lending a nutty crunch. Standout mains feature duck jelly with coquindo oil, sourced from the Amazon, and salt from the Manaure Salt Flats. Leo's menu, 'ciclo-bioma', charts Colombia's ecosystems, highlighting unique species and their culinary potential. A map illustrates Espinosa's sourcing journey, underscoring her commitment to indigenous ingredients.

Everyone has travel on their minds these days. Airports and train stations are full; roads are crammed with vehicles taking people to places they wish to see; conducted and curated tours are selling as soon as they are announced; and cruises are filled with eager passengers. Travel is now a'must do’ in the annual list of expenses in a household. Retired people dedicate even more time and resources to travel. They want to see the world before they become too old to do so. These trips around the world are not essentially travel. They are tours to a place with the intention of ticking something off a list. These tourists have no time to understand the history of a place, pause to consider how people live there, or get to taste the local cuisine, art, music, or theater. They are led by the belief that adding another magnet to their refrigerator is a badge of honour. Bragging on social media is another key objective of these pursuits. Operators offer several packages to cash into the travel bug syndrome.

On Sunday, Netflix took to social media to unveil the much-anticipated OTT release date. Sharing a promotional poster featuring the lead pair, Naga Chaitanya and Sai Pallavi, the streaming giant made the announcement with a caption that read: «A journey across borders, a story beyond limits. Watch Thandel, out 7 March on Netflix in Telugu, Hindi, Tamil, Kannada & Malayalam!» The news sparked enthusiasm among fans, who expressed their excitement in the comments section, eager to relive the film’s emotional and gripping narrative.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. She doesn’t have a specific memory of seeing a gamchha for the first time, but former Samata Party president Jaya Jaitly remembers being greeted at political meetings in West Bengal and Odisha with the cotton cloth woven with checks and stripes. “These were beautiful, colourful gamchhas with bright plain bodies or bearing ikat patterns and narrow borders with little temple spikes," recalls Jaitly, now president of Dastkari Haat Samiti.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. For a novel so steeped in old-school ideas about art and friendship, Annie Zaidi’s The Comeback is quite sharp when it comes to depicting a decidedly contemporary phenomenon—the passive-aggressive Instagram spiral. When you really, really want one particular person to listen these days, you scream your lungs out in front of millions.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Sean Baker’s Anora explodes onto the screen like a firecracker in a midnight alleyway—it’s a restless, breathless ride, a film straddling so many genres and refusing to be tamed. Baker slams together unlikely romance, riotous comedy, and a relentless Uncut Gems–esque nocturnal adventure, eventually taking us to heart-wrenching drama.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. In the third gallery at Ishara Art Foundation in Dubai, you walk into a dimly-lit room with five suspended microphones. Instead of being listening devices, these mics have been transformed into speakers reciting poetry from across time and space—Hum Dekhenge by Faiz Ahmed Faiz, which has become a protest anthem in some Indian universities, a martyr’s song in Gondi, and a rendition of text by Nigerian poet-environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. In 2020, the Union government introduced three farm laws which were perceived by millions of farmers around the country as being biased towards big business and detrimental to their own interests.

Uttam Mohanty died on Thursday night while undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Delhi, his family said. He was 66.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Even though a lot of big ticket names were missing from the London Fashion Week schedule this season, there was no dearth of creativity. Temperley clocked in its 25th year and the designer's son’s great-great-great-great grandfather Levin August von Bennigsen, who fought Napoleon back in 1807 was on the mood board.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. I was recently reading a piece on an Indian project featured in Wallpaper magazine. The 12,000 sq.

Stay tuned to this Mint LIVE blog for all the latest updates on Mahakumbh Last Shahi Snan 2025.Mahakumbh 2025 LIVE: On the festival of Maha Shivratri, on 26 February, JioHotstar is set to live stream 'Mahashivratri: The Divine Night'. The OTT platform will live stream 20 aartis from Jyotirlingas, Isha Foundation and The Art of Living events, an official statement read. Tap to read moreMahakumbh 2025 LIVE: The Maha Kumbh Mela will conclude on Maha Shivratri festival, which falls on February 26, 2025.

«Every service industry is getting significantly disrupted. So, I truly believe IT services industry is at an inflection point and we should not be complacent. If we can be more proactive in adopting to the changes, talk to our clients about what is the art of the possible and really walk this path with that kind of a mindset and not with a mindset to protect your revenue base and protect your existing footprint because if you do not do it somebody else will do it,» says C Vijayakumar, MD & CEO, HCLTech. How do you see the pace of AI's disruption impacting the IT services industry, and what steps do you think are crucial for organizations to take to stay ahead of the curve and ensure they’re not just protecting their current revenue base, but also embracing the transformative potential of AI? C Vijayakumar: This is really not a time to be complacent and saying that we saw the cloud wave, we saw the digital wave, now there is AI wave and we will navigate it because the pace of change and the significance of what AI can do, a lot of work.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Saturday said he would not agree to implement it even if the Centre offered to provide Rs 10,000 crore in funds to the state. The opposition to the NEP was not merely due to the attempt to impose Hindi but also because of various other factors that would have serious consequences for the future of students and the social justice system, he claimed.

Birkenstock has lost a key legal battle after Germany’s Federal Court of Justice ruled that its sandals do not qualify as copyrighted works of art, classifying them as comfortable footwear rather than unique artistic creations.

Higher Education Act.