Here’s why Narayan Murthy spending ₹50 crore on an apartment is exactly equal to Cyrus spending ₹5 on a vada pao

Here’s why Narayan Murthy spending ₹50 crore on an apartment is exactly equal to Cyrus spending ₹5 on a vada pao

Satheesh Vellinezhi | Photo Credit: Satheesh Vellinezhi Ouch! Sorry. I just stamped my own foot. This is a classical sign of early ageing. An even more classical sign for ageing is when you continue to stamp on your own foot without realising it. Readers are advised to see where they stand, no pun intended. Now […]

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IFFK 2024: Delegates from outside Kerala on what draws them to the festival every year

IFFK 2024: Delegates from outside Kerala on what draws them to the festival every year

“This is my me-time, the annual vacation I look forward to.” Bengaluru-based software engineer Neethu Surendran is not talking about visiting a tourist destination. She is referring to her annual trip to Thiruvananthapuram in December every year as a delegate of the International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK). The 29th edition of the week-long, prestigious […]

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36,000 public EV charging guns needed by 2030 to meet demand: Study

36,000 public EV charging guns needed by 2030 to meet demand: Study

About 400 potential spots for setting up the stations have been identified, like IT parks, metro stations, fuel stations, shopping malls, and Regional Transport Office zones, etc. | Photo Credit: file photo A study conducted by the Centre for Study of Science, Technology, and Policy (CSTEP), a Bengaluru-based think tank, shows that in order to […]

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Millenials and Gen Z choose crochet, knitting, and tufting over doomscrolling

Millenials and Gen Z choose crochet, knitting, and tufting over doomscrolling

Every other weekend at Cubbon Park in Bengaluru, a small group comes together. You might see them, heads bent over yarn or fabric, embroidering a denim jacket or crocheting a square. Rahul Jhadav, a 36-year-old content publisher who brought together this community says he always carries extra yarn, for people who spot them, and want […]

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HumDrum Circle, participatory music programme for the neurodivergent, comes to Thiruvananthapuram

HumDrum Circle, participatory music programme for the neurodivergent, comes to Thiruvananthapuram

A group randomly playing the drums might not sound like a great idea. But the soundscape at Trivandrum Cultural Centre in Thiruvananthapuram on September 28 proved to be a memorable experience. The group of musicians included neurodiverse children and adults, their parents, and therapists merrily playing on the drums, with some of them singing along. […]

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Conscious shopper? Head over to Bengaluru’s Paper Boat Collective

Conscious shopper? Head over to Bengaluru’s Paper Boat Collective

Love Me Twice’s second store was opened at Bengaluru recently | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement “You feel good when you shop,” says Mridula Pai, the founder of the thrift label Love Me Twice, the first branch of which opened in Kolkata in 2020. She has recently opened Love Me Twice’s second shop in Bengaluru at the […]

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30+ artisans will exhibit in Bengaluru for Project Tarasha X Creative Dignity collab

30+ artisans will exhibit in Bengaluru for Project Tarasha X Creative Dignity collab

Khetaram Sumra is an artisan from Rajasthan who specialises in pattu weaving | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement From Kashmir’s diverse aari, sujani and tilla embroidery and Karnataka’s Lambani to Gujarat’s Ajrakh and Rajasthan’s usta and pichwai paintings, over 25 craftpersons and artisans from across the country will present their art at Bengaluru this week. This […]

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Get your samosa and kachori fix at Sudha Chats in Bengaluru’s Langford Town

Get your samosa and kachori fix at Sudha Chats in Bengaluru’s Langford Town

J Satyanarayan (extreme right) at Sudha Chats | Photo Credit: SUDHAKARA JAIN If you take a walk on Berlie Street after 4 p.m., the aroma of freshly fried samosas, kachoris, and pakoras envelopes the area. Sudha Chats, a hole-in-the-wall joint is where these delicious treats are made every evening by J Satyanarayan and his mother, Sudha, […]

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Bengaluru’s Sublime Art Galleria opens its doors at Prestige Skytech, Hyderabad, with Vijit Pillai’s series of digital artworks titled Amalgamation

Bengaluru’s Sublime Art Galleria opens its doors at Prestige Skytech, Hyderabad, with Vijit Pillai’s series of digital artworks titled Amalgamation

Sublime Galleria, founded in 2009 in Bengaluru, announced its Hyderabad launch recently | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Sublime Art Galleria, founded in 2009 in Bengaluru by Uzma Irfan, has opened its doors in Hyderabad at Prestige Skytech, Financial District, Gachibowli. Located on the first floor in the sprawling office space, the gallery stands out with […]

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