Special effects prosthetist Zuby Johal shot to fame with Anurag Kashyap’s Gangs of Wasseypur Part 1 and 2 and has since worked on films like Badlapur, Tumbbad, Bose: Dead/Alive, Raabta, Love Aaj Kal 2, the horror anthology Ghost Stories and the Malayalam-language Uyare. In Raabta, actor Rajkummar Rao was transformed by Johal into […]
Verve Magazine
(1) We are
25 years old. Started by Anuradha Mahindra in 1995, we turned 18 in December of 2013, in a stellar issue that you can see
here, and our 22nd-anniversary issue is a landmark edition that focusses on what’s dominating many a conversation at the moment, right from sustainability to politics and the search for one’s identity in a digital world.
(2) We are
India’s first and only
home-grown women’s luxury lifestyle monthly. Being a glossy, the emphasis on paper, printing, processing and aesthetics is intrinsic, but what people come back to us for is the quality of content. We’ve been told that we stand out as a reader’s magazine. And that’s not an anomaly for a good-looking glossy.
Text by Shirin Mehta. Photographed by Mallika Chandra
Is communal snacking a thing of the past? And what sort of comfort are we now searching for in that evening plate of chaat or bag of chips? Verve considers the time between meals during fraught days
At 4 p.m. every afternoon, an alarm goes off in my head. Snack time! This is the only hour in days broken by three meals that I reach for well, anything that lies in jars, boxes and packets. Biscuits, banana chips, Lay’s, dry bhel, chaklis – all the things that made work afternoons at the office more meaningful, preferably over a mug of hot tea and invigorating conversations with colleagues. I recall that the best days were those when some kind soul decided to microwave popcorn in the office pantry, the aroma drifting through the entire space as the white bag moved crunchily from hand to impatient hand and work-related tensions dropped momentarily.
Text by Shirin Mehta
The Hermès Spring Summer 2021 Silk collection spotlights designs that relate unique stories and designers who bring their distinctive styles to each carré
The scarf is hip again thanks in no small measure to the French luxury house Hermès. Since the brand’s first
carré (French for square) or scarf rolled out in 1937, one hundred years after Hermès was founded in 1837, the brand has dedicated itself to keeping its most iconic accessory fresh and desirable for lovers of luxury. For instance, the shape of the classic 90 cms x 90 cms square has been innovated upon through the decades to include several avatars – bandanas, twillys, maxi-twillys, pareos, the giant triangle – while one of the newer renditions is a round scarf. Besides, the 19
Text by Shirin Mehta
Six hands-on young Indian bakers who bring scrumptious goodies and breads to sweet-toothed clients, show off their personal style, exchanging kitchen mitts for fashion gloves
“If they cannot have bread, let them eat cake!” Each time that I read this admittedly cliched misquote that the last French queen, Marie Antoinette, apparently never actually said, I think to myself, “Wouldn’t I just love to have them both?!” Greedy? Not so much! Just that there is something so life-affirming about the sight and smell of bread, that a fresh, fragrant loaf will make your spirits rise as surely as the yeast makes the dough rise to a sunny, earthy, golden hue. And as for cake…do I need to say anything more? Soft, gooey, crunchy, melty, pillowy, in all its various forms, cake, well, is just cake. Scrumptious, celebratory and guaranteed to ignite a state of happiness.