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The carousel maker from Surat | How Priyanka Shah’s furniture is getting noticed at India’s restaurants

Just like the kind of magic that brought Geppetto’s fairytale puppet Pinocchio to life, Priyanka Shah, 33, founder of the Surat-based multi-disciplinary studio Shed, has been blessed with a vision that animates even the most evocative fever dream. Magical carousels that spin to reveal a minuscule Arthur Hailey book next to a tiny bathtub, circular winding staircases that wrap around floor-to-ceiling bookcases, leaping tigers, hawks soaring over tall glass trees or tiny chocolate chip cookies on a giant cupcake, it all comes alive at the touch of a gear.Shah did not start off designing furniture and products. “I have always…

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Aug

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Mahindra displays four concept SUVs eyeing global markets

Vision.S, a concept SUV introduced by Mahindra and Mahindra. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. on Friday (August 15, 2025) unveiled four new concept SUVs which will be introduced in the market between 2027 and 2030. These vehicles, to be developed on the company’s all-new modular, multi-energy NU_IQ platform, will include ICE and electric vehicles. All these vehicles are targeted at the global market, company officials said.The firm is already exporting to South Africa and Australia, and electric vehicles are being exported to the U.K. So the new vehicles, in the first phase, will be introduced in these markets, followed…

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Tier-2 cities emerge as India’s new investment hotspots

The 2025 Investment landscape has seen a significant tilt in balance, with more astute investors looking beyond demographic-heavy saturated metro markets to the more compelling growth stories and Alpha markets of Tier 2 cities that have a better potential for returns. This strategic about-face betokens a growing recognition of India’s shifting economic geography, where long-held tenets for investment are being reordered by demography, the emergence of new infrastructure, and rapidly changing business tastes that reward nimbleness over sheer bigness.Investor preference in Pune remains at the top as the city has transcended the tag of Mumbai’s satellite city and is now…

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 Mysuru on the block – The Hindu

The design inspired by Mysuru’s ceremonial elephants. Good Earth has continued to launch new block-print collections every year—each distinctive, beautiful, and rooted in craft traditions. The Building Blocks of Good Earth series focuses on a curated set of the brand’s most iconic designs, prints that have shaped the vocabulary of Indian block printing and become part of its design legacy. These are now being revisited, reimagined, and documented in depth.The craft begins well before a block touches fabric. Every design is a thoughtful play of mathematics and poetry, each colour and motif a piece of a larger jigsaw puzzle, conceived…

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Bengaluru’s Beku brings together books, bakes and beverages

Prarthana Prasad says that her founding of Beku, a café, bakery, and bookstore, which just opened its doors to the public, came from a very “selfish place of creating the kind of space that I would have loved to go to.” The Bengaluru-based queer influencer says there are not many experiential places in the city, especially in South Bengaluru, where Beku is located. “It is a common complaint that people make about Bengaluru: that there is nothing to do, only restaurants and pubs to go to,” says Prarthana.Beku, which is all set to host a day-long launch event on August…

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Aug

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Film review | Here’s what Coolie and War 2 could learn from Sholay

Two huge films, with hundreds of crores riding on them, clashed on a rainy Thursday morning as I braced myself for the big-screen battle before sunrise. I made it to a 6am show in Andheri because there’s no better feeling than watching a full house Rajinikanth film first day, first show. Coolie, directed by crowd favourite Lokesh Kanagaraj, was released on the occasion of the superstar completing 50 years since he pushed open the gate in style in Apoorva Raagangal, a 1975 Tamil-language romantic film. The hype was massive — second only to the Kamal Haasan-Mani Ratnam-AR Rahman combo Thug Life.And…

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Aug

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Indian restaurants are reviving the culinary legacy lost during Partition with Pakistani dishes on their menus

In her book, Remnants of a Separation: A History of the Partition through Material Memory, author Aanchal Malhotra writes about the material memory that refugees from Pakistan carried with them during the Partition 1947— utensils, jewellery, soap boxes or combs. Along with these, they also carried intangible memories — the taste of creamy, delicious Lalla Musa dal from Pakistan’s city Lala Musa, Lahore’s famous street food katlama, chapli kebabs from Peshawar, and sajji from Balochistan. Sialkot masala raan at Ikk Panjab | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement These dishes are now finding their way once again into our culinary landscape. At Ikk…

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Avartana at ITC Grand Chola launches a new limited edition menu. Here’s what special about it

At Avartana, drumsticks — wrapped in a crunchy gram flour coat — look like they hopped off the Met Gala red carpet. Buttermilk — spiked with pepper, jaggery, beans, asparagus and toasted almonds — resembles an embroidered sari with pink-yellow petals and green leaves. The award-winning restaurant, launched in Chennai in 2017, is known for its progressive South Indian cuisine. The food is avant-garde, poised on technique, and marries surprising combinations. Loyalists are familiar with the menus available. Now, the team of chefs has added an inventive new collection of recipes to the roster. But you cannot just walk in…

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Dive deeper into the history of India’s lesser-known freedom fighters this Independence Day, with exhibition Hamaara Itihaas Archives of Freedom Fighters (HIAFF) in Delhi

Seventy-eight years ago, as the clock ticked towards midnight on August 14, India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru announced the country’s independence with an iconic speech, Tryst with Destiny, at Parliament House. In the Art Gallery of Kamaladevi Complex at India International Centre, New Delhi, before I examine the exhibition, Hamaara Ithihaas Archives Of Freedom Fighters, I engage in a surreal study of my proximity with time and space from where I stand, physically and existentially. It leads me to juxtapose the distance of four-and-a-half kilometres from Parliament House and the nearly eight decades from 1947.Surrounded by the maze of…

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Independence Day 2025 | A nation in banknotes

The birth of a banknote occurred in the 18th century Defined by a nation and driven by commerce, a banknote — a promissory note issued by a bank and payable to the bearer on demand — is many things. For the longest time in history, the idea of money was transactional, pivoting from barter systems to commodity exchange such as grain, metal and metal coins, and a form of paper money in early Chinese history.The birth of a banknote, and money as we know it now, occurred only in the 18th century. Today, banknotes are so ubiquitous that few realise…

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