According to him, they “originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe”. The London-born Ms Munchetty would no doubt regard it as a severe deprivation if she were threatened with a return to Mauritius where her Indian parents settled. The organiser was quoted saying, “This ruling legitimises textile manufacturers racist opinions by suggesting that they should be treated impartially.“Every time I have been told as a woman of colour, to go back where I come from, that was embedded in racism,” she said during a broadcast chat with her co-host Dan Walker on the famous red sofa on which these highly illuminating and often entertaining morning conversations take place. It’s called the difference between...
His parents also had to watch helplessly as Ranbir agreed to do film after film with directors who professed friendship and then betrayed his trust,” the friend says.Not many people know that it was actually Ranveer Singh who was finalised for Bombay Velvet.”Filmmaker Rahul Rawail, who is a close friend of Rishi’s, is happy that Ranbir’s back in good form. His biggest commercial hit, Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani, couldn’t cross the 200 crore mark. But not for Ranbir Kapoor.The friend says that Ranbir’s father Rishi Kapoor did not want him to take up either Bombay Velvet or Jagga Jasoos. Unlike most of his colleagues who’ve aimed for stardom, Ranbir has stolen your heart. I haven’t seen Sanju yet, but I’m sure he has done a great job.At such...
Edited excerpts from the interview:Arjun and Drashti, you guys have known each other for the eight years.Your 2 am buddy on the sets:Drashti: Alok and Arjun. It must have been an excruciating experience?Drashti: Arjun was suffering more than me because he had to layer his outfits. I am glad that winters are here as things will get better for us. But destiny was finally in our favour, and we got a chance to work together. There are times when we have to wait for her to complete her calls so that we can narrate our stories to her.Drashti, you seem to be close to Arjun’s son Ayaan more than him…Drashti: I am really fond of Ayaan. It is all fun and laughter here on the sets with Drashti. I keep poking fun at Arjun as to how lucky he got...
Fewer people are sitting on the sofa to watch live TV at set times, and advertisers are following.7 trillion USD, compared with about 800 billion USD for the top five in 2010. When Google’s Android software system arrived a year later, the Blackberry still seemed to have bright future. The explosion in connectivity has been especially dramatic in the developing world, where there are now more mobile connections than people. But untold barroom arguments or dining room debates can now be settled on the spot: Wikipedia is consulted more than 240 million times daily. Not all of that is due to the smartphone, of course, but the mobile-related technologies and services accounted for nearly 4 trillion USD in economic activity in 2018...
The beautiful sitar and the tabla reflect the core of Indian traditional music and our dynamic culture.” Last but not the least, as a goodwill gesture sarod virtuoso and classical music legend, Ustad Amjad Ali Khan will be gifting an autographed sarod to the Grammy winner.Design by Anamika Khanna Riddhima Kapoor Sahni will be gifting a bespoke wreath shaped necklace embellished in ornate rubies and marquise diamonds encrusted in platinum and 18k gold to Bieber’s mother. “The idea is to give her a flavour of our craft, yet not overwhelm her with the silhouette,” she says.” The concept behind the jacket, he says, has been to create a versatile look suitable for an event or a stage performance. Keeping in sync with Bieber’s universal...
My parents haven’t gifted me a bike. I can’t thank Sanjay sir enough. I regret not being able to give more to that film, though I’m very happy with what it did for my career,” he signed off in the interview. I’m grateful to Prakash Jha for giving me that film.’ But now, he’s aware that I have the bike. I was fascinated with him from the word go. It was only when I was dubbing for it that I realised this film has so much potential for me as an actor. It was a surprise, I came out of the gym and saw this shiny red Harley Davidson.”Be it gaining weight, building muscles, growing warp knitting fabric factory locks and beard, Ranbir did it all for ‘Sanju’ and not to mention portraying and feeling drug addiction, emotional breakdown over...
Shankardev composed Bargit, Ojapali songs as well as dances and incorporated them in Ankiya Nat or Ankiya Bhaona. More than 27 dancers moved playing khols creating various patterns. But this was different. Clad in white dhotis and upper garment, with white pugrees on their heads and holding khols, drums in their hands, they performed for my study ‘Gayan Bayan’ as it is called.It was a vast campus and there were four rows of houses where monks stayed. He opened Sangeet Sattra institution and took a revolutionary step of training girls in Sattriya. Armed with a camera and a tape recorder after a long journey I reached after four days to Kamalabari Sattra. Those ten days in Kamalabari Sattra, watching, making notes, taking photographs...
Simple, humble buttons have much more to them than being fastening accessories for clothes, believes apparel designer Anuj Sharma. His creations make it possible to play around with the shape and folds of a dress — all by experimenting with buttons. “A piece of fabric, few buttons in different sizes and colours and a handful of rubber bands can be combined in million different ways,” says Anuj, whose product label is called Button Masala. Anuj stumbled upon this technique when he saw a man who had buttoned up his shirt in a haphazard fashion, but “appeared like an interesting draping”. He observes, “It is one of the cheapest and fastest techniques of production, as it involves no machine or tools.
The latest in the news and spreading its eco friendly tenets is the bamboo fabric. When everyone in the world is talking about sustainable fashion and ways to “save the planet”, bamboo fabric is emerging as a winner. Fashion Network recently wrote about Etro’s beautiful eco friendly bamboo fashion where the gorgeous Kean Etro from Milan says, “The thing about bamboo is that it grows everywhere, it’s invasive. So we should use the fibre. It’s true diversity. When you think of the enormous quantity of water we use to make cotton, bamboo looks like a wonder material by comparison”.Jewellery designer and fashionista. Riddhima Kapoor Sahni, says, “I haven’t had much experience with it but I have heard from people who say that the fabric...
With, both a shrine to Govindaraja, the reclining form of Vishu and one dedicated to Brahma-Chandikeshvara in the same courtyard, I had not only the bewilderingly awesome experience of raising my gaze, but also attempting to addressing the dance offering to both in their individual shrines at the same time! Dancing at the stroke of midnight for devotees, under the open sky on the stage at the temple was marvellous, but I still get shivers of delight when I recall the feeling of looking from one deity to the other inside the temple.K. RIMPA, The Ravi Shankar Institute for Music and Performing Arts, offers a baitak experience through its annual festival.While every performance space has its own character and impact, the intention and...