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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
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December 26, 2020 12:41 IST
Concepts like remote filmmaking and virtual production are becoming more prevalent, even as skeleton crews return to production studios, masked and sanitised
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Clockwise from top left: A still from ‘Mismatched’, Shruti Hasan shooting for ‘Putham Pudhu Kaalai’, and stills from ‘WW84’ and ‘Home Stories’
Concepts like remote filmmaking and virtual production are becoming more prevalent, even as skeleton crews return to production studios, masked and sanitised
In London, director Ben Hume-Paton sits in front of a computer screen and says, “Action.” Over 10,841 km away, in Singapore, co-director K Rajagopal relays his instructions to the actors and crew filming an advertisement for Interpol. In Lyon, France, the client watches in real time, while in Puducherry, producer Samir Sarkar, of Magic Hour Films, ensures everything goes seamlessly. All over Zoom.