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May 08, 2021 11:32 IST
One expects involvement from celebrities and influencers with relief efforts because their fandom is the people
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One expects involvement from celebrities and influencers with relief efforts because their fandom is the people
Where are our celebrities? While regular people have been displaying extraordinary courage and ability during this crisis verifying leads on oxygen, beds, plasma, and mobilising and taking action Indian celebrities, for the most part, have stayed silent. But this is the time to show up!
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May 08, 2021 21:03 IST
These good Samaritans are encouraging volunteers and frontline workers in their endeavours, proving that kindness is indeed contagious
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These good Samaritans are encouraging volunteers and frontline workers in their endeavours, proving that kindness is indeed contagious
Stay away from doomscrolling, they say. But at a time when the battle against the coronavirus is being fought on social media and messaging apps rallying volunteers, sharing resources, hunting down hospital beds and oxygen cylinders it’s tough to stop that thumb from moving. And occasionally, you chance upon small glimmers of joy. Like a 12-year-old baking cookies under #BakeForIndia, to collect funds for Covid relief, or a philanthropist donning a PPE suit just to bring food to street dogs, or neighbours pitching in to make sure an isolating family gets to celebrate a birthday.
Jaipur’s design community is standing strong
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April 10, 2021 09:50 IST
Despite tourism drying up, the Pink City’s creative entrepreneurs are weathering the pandemic, pivoting where required, giving back to their artisans, and showing solidarity
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Despite tourism drying up, the Pink City’s creative entrepreneurs are weathering the pandemic, pivoting where required, giving back to their artisans, and showing solidarity
Jaipur is a contradiction of sorts. Its beautiful forts and palaces are contrasted by crowded urban sprawls. It is the production centre for intricate embroidery and prints that’s used by some of the world’s most luxurious brands, but the city has few big local brands to boast of. “Though Jaipur has been a centre for various aesthetic activities through the centuries, the average lay person doesn’t belong to the cognoscenti. In fact, the cognoscenti is very small here,” says art curator and founder of arts organisa