Four Indie dogs are travel buddies of their pet parents as they travel across the country on foot, bicycle and motorbikes

Four Indie dogs are travel buddies of their pet parents as they travel across the country on foot, bicycle and motorbikes

Butter, Bella, Charlie and Veeran are Indie dogs, all rescued, adopted and living in different parts of the country. Their stories of finding forever homes are very different but what binds them is their many adventures on the road as they travel with their human companions. Yati Gaur and Butter Yati Gaur, @theunfoldingplay on Instagram, […]

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Cyrus Broacha’s guide to getting through the Indian monsoon

Cyrus Broacha’s guide to getting through the Indian monsoon

Our research is in. And by research, I mean data. Oh, and, don’t worry, we didn’t turn to AI Instead, we just asked some 13-year-old genius in Bengaluru, who had free time in between start-ups. The data I speak of revolves around how to improve this column. We have just three main areas of concern. […]

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India | Homemakers and techies in India are taking up psychology

India | Homemakers and techies in India are taking up psychology

Shefalee Vasudev, 55, thinks people have different temperaments: that of a guitar player, footballer, or perhaps a carpenter. She herself has the temperament to listen and engage with the complexities of the human mind. A veteran journalist and editor-in-chief of digital magazine The Voice of Fashion, Vasudev’s shelves in her New Delhi home are full […]

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Chennai’s new cafe Bask by Coffee? encourages you to linger

Chennai’s new cafe Bask by Coffee? encourages you to linger

“I want to call this the Tinder table. Or maybe the Bumble table,” chuckles Nirav Shah, discussing the 24-seater community table that occupies pride of place at his newly-launched café, Bask. “Or, let’s call it the Swipe Right table,” he says, clearly delighted at the idea. “A lot of people will end up making friends […]

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Data | Parsing the inflation story of the past year

Data | Parsing the inflation story of the past year

Inflation: Pulses put on display for sale at wholesale grocery market Khari Baoli, Delhi | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma The latest annual report released by the RBI highlights the factors and disruptors that heightened inflation levels worldwide. It also identifies the specific commodities that affected inflation across different components, like food, fuel and core […]

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Emil George from Kerala drives through the Indian mainland in 97 days setting a record for the fastest solo car expedition

Emil George from Kerala drives through the Indian mainland in 97 days setting a record for the fastest solo car expedition

Emil George at Umling La, the highest motorable pass in the world | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Automobile/travel enthusiast and digital content creator Emil George says he did not research too much when he embarked on a road trip that covered 28 States and six Union Territories, which comprises mainland India. It came with its […]

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Hermès Beauty comes to India with Rouge Hermès, featuring 24 shades of lipsticks

Hermès Beauty comes to India with Rouge Hermès, featuring 24 shades of lipsticks

A snapshot of the lipsticks | Photo Credit: Joshua Navalkar The setting is the Mumbai Hermès store. Though it is a weekday afternoon, energy levels are high and the space is bright with colour. An artist paints renditions of attending guests’ lips on a card, as a very personalised take-home present, while assembled journalists wait for […]

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Studio pottery in India has its whole future ahead of it: Kate Malone

Studio pottery in India has its whole future ahead of it: Kate Malone

Kate Malone in her London studio | Photo Credit: Dan Fontanelli The year was 1986. British potter Kate Malone, then 24, had flown down to India with her husband to meet their friends — visual artist Ravindra Reddy, and sculptors Trupti Patel and Dhruva Mistry in Ahmedabad, with whom they had forged a deep friendship […]

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