How green are digital fashion shows?
Moschino pushed the envelope at the Milan Fashion Week, held September-end, by sending puppets wearing its spring/summer collection down a miniature runway.
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Aarushi Kilawat isn’t sure what she’s feeling. Three weeks from now, she will be presenting her women’s collection, for the first time, at one of India’s biggest fashion events, the Lakmé Fashion Week (LFW). “Let’s just say I have butterflies in my stomach, laughs the designer, 25, as she gives the final touches to the eight ensembles she has created under The Loom Art brand while cooped up in her Jaipur home owing to the pandemic.
Why Twinkle Khanna wants you to try tendli
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One would think that movie stars would be above
dabba envy but my partner once returned from a shoot with a grievous complaint. I was sending him chauli and tendli, while his co-star, a long-standing bachelor, was unpacking lunch boxes filled with prawns and lobster, writes Twinkle Khanna in the foreword of her new book,
What’s In Your Dabba?.
As a reader, it’s interesting to know that celebrities are just like everybody else, although lobsters in a lunch box is the kind of stuff superstar
Understanding MK Gandhi’s ‘love’ for his ‘spiritual wife’
Gandhi with Manu Gandhi (left) and Abha Gandhi.
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If you run a cursory internet search for M.K. Gandhi’s relationship with Sarala Devi Chaudhurani, you are likely to come across articles with headlines referring to a love affair between them, even salaciously pointing to the Mahatma’s lust for her. The reality was far more complicated, as a newly published collection of letters between them shows.
Born in 1872, Sarala Devi was three years younger than Gandhi, and died in 1945. In all her 72 years, she knew the Mahatma closely for a little more than 12 months. In 1919-20, when India was pushed to a tipping point by the twin horrors of the Rowlatt Act and Jallianwala Bagh massacre, Gandhi came in contact with Sarala Devi and her husband Rambhaj Dutt Chaudhary, who was called “Panditji by all and sundry. The couple was living in Lahore at the time, far from Sarala Devi’s
Serious Men : Sudhir Mishra and Nawazuddin Siddiqui on their new film
Sudhir Mishra and (left) Nawazuddin Siddiqui on the sets of Serious Men . Courtesy: NetflixPremium
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Between Sudhir Mishra and Nawazuddin Siddiqui, there s been plenty of memorable Mumbai-centric cinema made. The director has given us the searing
Dharavi and the underrated gangster film
Iss Raat Ki Subah Nahi. And Siddiqui has played Mumbaikars of all stripes, from politician Bal Thackeray and serial killer Raman Raghav to the gentle strivers of
Bombay Talkies and
Mishra and Siddiqui have collaborated for the first time on
Serious Men, an adaptation of Manu Joseph s 2010 novel about Ayyan Mani, an ambitious Dalit man whose dreams of lifting himself out of poverty cause him to run a risky con involving his young son. The film will release on Netflix on 2 October. Over a video call, Mishra and Siddiqui spoke about how cities leave their mark on you and why the film