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Over 200 Top Nature photographers join forces for Prints for Wildlife fundraiser

Over 200 Top Nature photographers join forces for Prints for Wildlife fundraiser

In the last five years, Nature and wildlife photographers across the world have raised over $2.1 million for conservation. This, courtesy of global non-profit Conservation Internationalโ€™s initiative titled Prints for Wildlife. Every year, a community of photographers sell their limited-edition prints and all funds raised go towards efforts supported by Conservation International.ย  An Asiatic lioness with her cubs at Gir National Park, Gujarat | Photo Credit: Jie Fischer/Prints for Wildlife This year, the fundraiser Edition Hope is slated to โ€˜respond to a new, urgent threat: the global shift away from environmental protectionโ€™. The team addresses how conservation programmes around the…
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Why Bengaluruโ€™s Museum of Art & Photography is leaning into tech and the tactile

Why Bengaluruโ€™s Museum of Art & Photography is leaning into tech and the tactile

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a new-age museum in our smartphone era must create perfect selfie spots. Over the past decade, founders, architects, exhibition designers, curators and artists have had to also imagine their works and spaces to double up as Instagram backdrops. At Bengaluruโ€™s Museum of Art & Photography (MAP), however, this isnโ€™t at their โ€œcore of building a museum-going cultureโ€, says Abhishek Poddar, the founder of this museum. โ€œAt MAP, these interactive elements, whether analogue or digital, are always intentional choices, not add-ons.โ€ Abhishek Poddar, founder of MAP | Photo Credit: Prarthana Shetty Accommodating this buzzing…
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Fashion label Cos launches in India

Fashion label Cos launches in India

When a minimalist brand launches in maximum city, you expect the contrast to jar.ย After all, there is nothing minimalist about India. Luxury here typically envelopes you in sparkle, opulence, and chaotic colour. Yet, COS, known for its unapologetically practical aesthetic, manages to fit right in with its soon-to-be-launched Autumn/Winter collection, which is flamboyant with texture and extravagant with detail. ย  Karin Gustafsson | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement We are in Mumbai for COSโ€™ India launch, and the city is framed by brooding skies and lashing rain. An apt setting for the clothes, with their inky colours and liquid drapes. In…
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Enjoy home-made puddings at Tree of Treats in Thiruvananthapuram

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

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 Indiaโ€™s royal heritage through crafts, cuisine, couture, and collectibles.Among the many highlights, on display will be the Karkhana Chronicles โ€” a campaign, featuring collaborations between royal families and artisans, that focusses on preserving Indiaโ€™s textile heritage by supporting artisan communities, particularly those impacted by the pandemic โ€” and a tribute to palace ateliers still alive in forts and…
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Movie Review: Before the Flood by Fisher Stevens

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, โ€˜Before the Floodโ€™ 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, โ€˜The Coveโ€™ 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, โ€˜The Garden of Earthly Delightsโ€™, a canvas…
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MMA Choir presents global choral concert with Polandโ€™s Concerto Glacencis Choir in Chennai

MMA Choir presents global choral concert with Polandโ€™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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Mahindra pitches SUVs for the world, all built on one ambitious base

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

Thereโ€™s something about seeing a concept car under the spotlights that no slide deck or PDF can ever capture. At Mahindraโ€™s big reveal in Mumbai, the air was thick with expectation โ€” not only because the company had promised โ€œa new era of SUVs,โ€ 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, Mahindraโ€™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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Calorie, a year-long exhibit at the Science Gallery Bengaluru, questions our relationship with food

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 scientistย Nicolas Clรฉment introduced the term calorie. In the two centuries since, human beingsโ€™ and societyโ€™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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Cubbon park is central to Bengaluruโ€™s existence

Cubbon park is central to Bengaluruโ€™s existence

Vinay Parameshwarappa has always thought of Cubbon Park as a special place, โ€œone of the last few green spaces where you can leisurely walk, without worrying that someone will run you over,โ€ 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. โ€œThe 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,โ€ he says. โ€œWe had wanted to explore this neighbourhood.โ€…
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