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This Postcard serves the best of taste from 12 states

Express News Service When Ashish Nichani and Sudarsan Metla first met while working together at the ING Group, they bonded instantly over a common love for food and travel. Driven by passion, both quit their banking jobs to foray into the world of speciality food. The duo founded Postcard in November 2019 to elevate the experience of enjoying traditional Indian snacks procured from 12 states. From the snacks in Kerala with a distinct aroma of coconut oil, to the robust flavours of Punjab and Uttar Pradesh, or the trademark ‘jhal’ mixtures of the East, the Kathiyawadi style with its unique sweet-savoury combination and the mild flavours of Chettinad, Postcard became the perfect platform to showcase the microcultures through a repertoire of snacks. Kolhapuri Bhadang from Jaysinghpur, Maharashtra; Sattur Sev of Tamil Nadu; kachoris of Jamnagar, Gujarat; Pune  Bhakarwadis Netflix and Chill suddenly achieved a whole new meaning.

The lensman in his bubble

Express News Service Elusive as elusive can be, Delhi photographer Sohrab Hura in his own words “is so comfortable in my own world that now I’m just happy there”. Someone who believes in the innocence of creating rather than pushing that creation out into the world for others to admire, Hura’s vivid, sometimes surreal photography, is a testament to the unique world or “bubble” as he calls it he has built for himself. Sathish Kumar’s ‘Portrait of a boy near my hometown’; Recently this photographer, who is only the second Indian after Raghu Rai to be nominated to the famed global photography collective Magnum Photos, marked his foray into curating with the Ishara Art Foundation’s exhibition Growing Like a Tree in Dubai. Magnum was founded two years after World War II ended by Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger and David ‘Chim’ Seymour.

One weave at a time: HathKala on a mission to promote slow fashion

Express News Service In the world of fast fashion, designer Noopur Chaturvedi wants us to slow down and wear clothes that will last for generations. Growing up in small-town Chhatarpur, near Chanderi in Madhya Pradesh, she would see weavers going house to house in the scorching heat, selling beautiful handmade saris. The memory was enough to spur her to start her own brand, HathKala, in 2019. A small home-run venture, HathKala is all about sustainability and the beauty of slow fashion.  “Our aim is to celebrate and revive the old art forms and designs, and offer classic yet contemporary handloom saris that are designed to be passed on to the next generation. The idea is to make handloom relatable for upcoming generations and weave a story along with our fabrics,” says the 24-year-old NIFT graduate.

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