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04

Sep

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“We have brought over two million girls back into school”: Safeena Husain on her Ramon Magsaysay Award-winning organisation Educate Girls

Safeena Husain, 54, was with a group of teenagers celebrating a learning milestone in a small village outside Udaipur, Rajasthan, when she asked one of them why her education had been interrupted. The girl had passed her Class X with Pragati, a second chance programme offered by Husain’s award-winning non-profit Educate Girls. Pragati was designed for older girls who are ineligible for formal schooling. “I’m 18,” she told Husain. “I left education 10 years ago when I was married.”Husain just won the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award (the first for an Indian organisation) for her nearly two decade old labour of…

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03

Sep

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Joonus Sait & Sons celebrates 120 years as Chennai’s iconic winterwear and rainwear store

The irony is impossible to miss. Outside, the Chennai sun blazes with its usual fury. Inside Joonus Sait & Sons, neat stacks of woollen sweaters, cardigans, and thermal wear line the shelves. For 120 years, the store has been an unlikely fixture in Madras — a place where generations of families have come, not for the weather outside their doors, but for the journeys beyond them.“The store was started by my grandfather’s grandfather Hajee Abbas Yunus Sait, who was called Joonus Sait because the Anglo-Indian name for Yunus is Joonus. He was doing business in Bellari, Karnataka in the 1900s,…

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03

Sep

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Bangladesh, Pakistan among Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2025 winners 

The Aga Khan Award for Architecture for the year 2025 was announced on Tuesday (September 2). While India, which has won the award only six times till date, didn’t even make the final shortlist of 15 countries (19 studio projects were shortlisted from 369 submitted this year), South Asia has scored big with Bangladesh and Pakistan among the seven winners of this edition. The other awardees include Palestine, China, Egypt and two winners from Iran. The winning projects will share the $1 million award, one of the largest in architecture. The award ceremony will be held on September 15 in…

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02

Sep

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In Indore, Atelier V’s daring new cocktail menu flirts with ingredients, techniques and stories

First, we get in line for poha. Served with crunchy mixture and finely chopped onions, it is best eaten with freshly fried, deliciously sticky jalebis.  Then come the cocktails, paired with an intricate tasting menu and luxe setting at Indore’s Atelier V.  By midnight we head to the city’s celebrated Sarafa market, jostling between hungry crowds, to do icy jamun shots, eat sweet-savoury khopra potato pattice stuffed with coconut, and kulhad pizza. (Which is exactly what it sounds like.)  We pause eating only to admire the ‘Gold Man,’ who is weighed down with glittering jewellery, and gape at Joshi’s famous flying dahi…

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01

Sep

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Anna Chandy: the one who stood tall in court

A picture of Justice Anna Chandy published in The Hindu on February 13, 1959. | Photo Credit: The Hindu Archives A feminist, the founder-editor of a magazine, and most importantly, the first-ever female judge in the history of the Indian judiciary. This is the story of Anna Chandy.A fierce advocate of women’s rights and equality, Anna Chandy was born in Travancore, Kerala, in 1905. She was raised by the women of her family due to the death of her father at an early age. Perhaps that is what made her ideas and thoughts on equality modern and quite ahead of…

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01

Sep

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Apartments have to get their ‘Act’ together

A year since Tamil Nadu Apartment Ownership Rules 2024 prepared by the Housing and Urban Development Department came into effect, many apartment complexes in Chennai are yet to complete the process involving registration or renewal of association status. Tamil Nadu Gazette dated September 24, 2024 requires owners of units in an apartment (starting from four-flat apartments to massive multiple-tower societies) to submit “Form-A” towards initial registration. It wants apartments with multiple blocks/towers in a compound to form a federation, and make bye-laws. Irrespective of the size the apartment, flat owners are required to appoint an auditor, submit audited accounts and balance…

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31

Aug

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Vastrabharana 2025 in Bengaluru showcases handcrafted textiles and jewellery

(L-R) Creations by Econic and a weave by Hosa Arambha, a revival project by the Yali Store in collaboration with The Registry of Sarees | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Next week, the 33rd edition of Vastrabharana — the annual exhibition of handcrafted textiles and jewellery — will commence in Bengaluru. Organised by The Crafts Council of Karnataka (CCK), the event will bring together weavers, designers, and artisans from across the country. This year, Vastrabharana is themed on Illusion and Fantasy, and is slated to be a tribute to the ‘power of imagination and storytelling in textile traditions… and invites participating…

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31

Aug

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Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2025 | Will curator Nikhil Chopra start a new chapter for the ‘People’s Biennale’?

For two decades now, artist Nikhil Chopra and his personae have walked the planet, eating, dressing, pondering, undressing, and sleeping like the rest of us. Unlike most of us, their habitats have ranged from basements in Ohio and town squares in Havana, parks in Budapest and the meadows of Kashmir, prestigious museums in New York and Berlin to derelict warehouses in Kochi.Yog Raj Chitrakar, Michelle, Black Pearl, Sir Raja and about a dozen more: Chopra has slipped in and out of each character that’s been drafted as carefully, mindfully and luxuriously (complete with elaborate costumes and make-up) as the paintings…

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30

Aug

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Is wearing black in summer always a bad idea? Maybe, wearing black is actually cool!

Have you ever been told not to wear black because it’s too hot outside or to wear white because it’s too hot outside? Well, it’s an interesting notion that has come in that light colours or white help to keep your body cooler. It was in the 1980s that four researchers saw that a particular desert community known as the Boudins had been wearing black woollen outfits despite living in such a hot and harsh climate. ‘Does it not make things worse for them in the desert?’ was a major question that came into their head. Further pushing them to research…

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30

Aug

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Poozhikkunnu in Thiruvananthapuram has been celebrating Onam with floral carpets for 38 years

Pookkalams at Poozhikkunnu in Thiruvananthapuram | Photo Credit: SREEJITH R KUMAR Poozhikunnu, a few kilometres away from the heart of Thiruvananthapuram, has for long been known for its cracker-making units. But the village has another tradition to its credit — residents have been laying huge pookkalams on all 10 days of Onam for 38 years now.This is being done under the auspices of a people’s forum, Poozhikkunnu Pourasamithi. “The practice is actually older than that, probably 45 years or so. Before the Pourasamithi took it up, a group of senior citizens used to conduct pookkalam-laying contests, which saw the participation…

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