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Divyam Mehta’s new collection features skirts inspired by South-Indian mundus

Divyam Mehta’s new collection features skirts inspired by South-Indian mundus

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Delhi-based fashion designer Divyam Mehta’s new collection Still Waters | Photo Credit: Special arrangement With deliberate, calculated precision, Delhi-based fashion designer Divyam Mehta defines the inspiration behind his newly launched summer collection Still Waters. He borrows the collection’s design language from South Asian contemporary art, tribal rugs and nautical stripes, but manipulates its grammar to […]

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Kochi | ‘Go With The Flo – The Period Game’ is an educational board game that debunks myths around menstruation

Kochi | ‘Go With The Flo – The Period Game’ is an educational board game that debunks myths around menstruation

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Go with the flo board game  | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT The educational board game Go With the Flo – The Period Game is exactly what you think it is. It is about menstruation, and probably India’s only board game on the subject. It is designed to demystify menstruation and aims to create menstrual literacy […]

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Why do dosas now have tender jackfruit in them?

Why do dosas now have tender jackfruit in them?

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Every time I see an idichakka (tender jackfruit), I am reminded of the taste of the idichakka thoran my aunt sent home once, packed in a slightly toasted banana leaf. Steam-cooked tender jackfruit pieces are mashed on the ammikkallu (stone mortar and pestle), stir-fried and cooked with turmeric, coconut, jeera, chillies etc to make the […]

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Current and former students of St. Teresa’s College in Kochi to stage a musical inspired by the Russian ballet Swan Lake

Current and former students of St. Teresa’s College in Kochi to stage a musical inspired by the Russian ballet Swan Lake

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Come January 11, the Platinum Jubilee Auditorium of St. Teresa’s College (STC) will be the stage for musical Hamsadhwani – Words in Motion, an adaptation of the 19th century Russian ballet Swan Lake. Presented in a fusion of classical Indian dance forms such as Bharatanatyam, Mohiniyattam, Kathakali alongside contemporary, freestyle and folk dance, it will […]

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An electric boat that takes the sustainable tourism route in Kochi’s Kadamakkudy islands

An electric boat that takes the sustainable tourism route in Kochi’s Kadamakkudy islands

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It is a calm day for a boat ride, the breeze is a gentle caress. Conditions are ideal on the almost-winter-like day. The waters of the Periyar around Kadamakkudy are still, glass-like. At a distance one can see poles that make up Chinese fishing nets as they mark the outline of the river. The silence […]

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How the Mizo population in Kerala celebrates Christmas

How the Mizo population in Kerala celebrates Christmas

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“I miss home this time of the year…it will be so festive there.” This is Saizampuii Sailo talking about the Christmas festivities back home in Mizoram. A student of the Civil Engineering stream at the College of Engineering Trivandrum (CET), she has been celebrating Christmas, or Krismas as they write it, in Thiruvananthapuram since she […]

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