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Aug

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Enjoy home-made puddings at Tree of Treats in Thiruvananthapuram

Tree of Treats, a weekend home cafe located at Kowdiar, Thiruvananthapuram, comes to life at five on Friday evenings. The fairy lights wrapped around the name board, patio furniture arranged on the front porch, and wobbly puddings soaked in sauce or coated in toasted coconut welcome customers to this makeshift eatery. The place is an extension of Treesa Joy and Arun Antony’s home. If you listen carefully, you can hear three-year-old Anthoy as he runs around the residence. Arun and Anthoyi at Tree of Treats | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT The evening cafe, as Treesa describes it, began in July,…

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19

Aug

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Buy a slice of palace life at the Royal Fables pop-up in New Delhi

Royal Fables returns to New Delhi with its 15th edition, bringing with it the erstwhile grandeur of princely India reimagined for the modern world. Presented in association withSONACHAANDI by the house of Shilpi Gupta and Atul Jewellers, the one-day pop-up will showcase India’s royal heritage through crafts, cuisine, couture, and collectibles.Among the many highlights, on display will be the Karkhana Chronicles — a campaign, featuring collaborations between royal families and artisans, that focusses on preserving India’s textile heritage by supporting artisan communities, particularly those impacted by the pandemic — and a tribute to palace ateliers still alive in forts and…

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19

Aug

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Movie Review: Before the Flood by Fisher Stevens

The Garden of Earthly Delights | Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons In its just-over an hour and a half long runtime, ‘Before the Flood’ does not say much about how climate change entirely can be stopped, and perhaps, with good enough reason. Director Fisher Stevens, whose Academy-Award winning, ‘The Cove’ exposed the brutal slaughter of dolphins in Japan, teams up with Leonardo DiCaprio as they travel around the world to discover the causes and shocking effects that climate change has had across the globe. The film opens with the famous painting by Jheronimus Bosch, ‘The Garden of Earthly Delights’, a canvas…

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19

Aug

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MMA Choir presents global choral concert with Poland’s Concerto Glacencis Choir in Chennai

The MMA Choir | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The Madras Musical Association (MMA) Choir is set to join voices with the renowned Concerto Glacencis Choir from Poland for An Evening of Global Music, a choral concert that promises to be both rich and diverse. The performance will bring together 80 singers from the MMA Choir and 43 visiting choristers from Poland, creating an evening of sound and spirit that celebrates harmony across cultures. The two choirs have collaborated before, most recently in Klodzko, Poland, in 2023. This time, Chennai audiences will experience the blend of bold local voices with international finesse…

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19

Aug

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Mahindra pitches SUVs for the world, all built on one ambitious base

There’s something about seeing a concept car under the spotlights that no slide deck or PDF can ever capture. At Mahindra’s big reveal in Mumbai, the air was thick with expectation — not only because the company had promised “a new era of SUVs,” but because this was the first time we were going to see the NU_IQ platform made real. From the rugged Vision T to the edgy Vision SXT, Mahindra’s concepts fuse classic SUV toughness with a futuristic twist. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement On paper, NU_IQ sounded ambitious: a modular base that could run petrol, diesel, hybrid…

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19

Aug

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Calorie, a year-long exhibit at the Science Gallery Bengaluru, questions our relationship with food

Long Hanging Fruits, an installation by Indonesian artist Elia Nurvista about the palm oil industry | Photo Credit: Special arrangement In the 1820s, French scientist Nicolas Clément introduced the term calorie. In the two centuries since, human beings’ and society’s relationship with food has changed drastically. Today the study of food is a complex subject that comprises not only nutrition and agriculture, but also has geopolitics, technology, climate change, caste and gender under its umbrella. Science Gallery Bengaluru unveils a year-long exhibition titled Calorie, that uses the lens of art to engage and reflect on these subjects. Who grows your food?…

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19

Aug

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Cubbon park is central to Bengaluru’s existence

Vinay Parameshwarappa has always thought of Cubbon Park as a special place, “one of the last few green spaces where you can leisurely walk, without worrying that someone will run you over,” says the founder of Gully Tours, an experiential tour company. Not surprisingly, Cubbon Park was at the heart of Colonial Crawl, among the first walks that his company curated in the city. “The colonial story is such an important one in the evolution of Bengaluru, and Cubbon Park was the link between the Bengaluru Pete and its Cantonment area,” he says. “We had wanted to explore this neighbourhood.”…

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19

Aug

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World Photography Day: Hyderabad exhibition to spotlight works of 44 photographers

Vedika Bonakurthy photographs the Potharajus during Bonalu in Hyderabad | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Each year during the Bonalu festivities that coincide with the monsoon in Hyderabad, an ordinary man transforms into Potharaju, a folk deity and soothsayer, his face painted in vivid strokes of turmeric and vermillion. Vedika Bonakurthy’s photograph captures these Potharajus in the moments before the Bonalu procession, documenting their act of becoming. Titled ‘Body Before The Spirit’, the image distills the essence of local culture.This photograph, along with several others, forms part of an exhibition curated to mark World Photography Day. Opening on August 19 at…

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19

Aug

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Movie Review | The Death of a Soul: Sardar Udham by Shoojit Sircar

What happens when you allow one of the country’s best directors to finally make what has been a dream project? You get a visual portrait so riddled with intricacy and intimacy that you can, from the very first look, tell that the artist’s passion for their art was at its creative peak. Such is the story with Sardar Udham, a film that is Sircar at his best. Unforgettable are those thirty harrowing minutes, which unfold like a haunting nightmare you cannot get up from but have to endure. Perhaps because this nightmare was very much real for so many people.…

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19

Aug

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Yezdi Roadster 350 Alpha2: Specs, price and features explained

The Yezdi name is synonymous with India’s motorcycling heritage , but its recent comeback has been met with mixed results. While the revival stirred nostalgia, the brand has struggled to make the kind of impact its legacy deserved. With the launch of the 2025 Roadster, however, Yezdi is signalling its intent to shift gears and reassert itself in a highly competitive segment dominated by established names. The 350 Alpha2 engine delivers a smooth, punchy ride for city streets and highways alike | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The new Roadster builds on the brand’s heritage while clearly appealing to modern sensibilities.…

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