Zia aswekeepsearching

The Ahmedabad based band fuses post-rock with Hindi vocals and create a sound unlike anything India has heard before. They talk about their second album, Zia.

Inside Our Design Issue 2017

V. Sunil. Sumant Jayakrishnan. Rukminee Guha Thakurta. Mohit Jayal. Dhara Jain. Raul Rai & Simran Lal. Meet the makers. The believers.

#ThrowbackThursday: Armin van Buuren

Throwback to an exclusive interview with the world's number one DJ - Armin van Buuren. We explore the extraordinary intellect of the virtuoso.

PROFILE OF THE WEEK

The Black Cat

Bhargav Saikia The Black Cat, Director

The film-maker discusses adapting his childhood hero, Ruskin Bond's, The Black Cat that has all the elements of genre cinema and literature that he grew up loving.

INTERVIEW OF THE WEEK

Apurva Asrani Simran, Screenwriter

With two full-length feature films to his name, previously Aligarh and now Simran, Asrani is a proven master of words. He talks to us about his latest.

Music is all about rediscovering myself, pushing my boundaries and digging up emotions that I didn’t even know existed somewhere deep within me.

Lucy Rose, Singer-Songwriter

Short Take

Aatish Taseer, Writer

Contextualize yourself in one line?
A writer trying to make a whole of his past, and the past of his place.

What would the title of your biography be?
Man of Hidden Shallows.

An event form the past that has most influenced you?
The 1947 partition of India.

Three things people will be surprised to know about Aatish Taseer?
I'm a nervous traveller. I used to be - for my love of dharmic films- known as the 'bhakt' in green Park Market [New Delhi]. I once went skinny dipping in a pool in Buckingham Palace.

The Black Cat

Bhargav Saikia, Director

Art

The Artists of KYTA 2017

A glimpse into a one-of-a-kind art & travel experiment, alongwith the work of a few national and international artists that are redefining a small Himalayan village.

Design

Jasjyot Singh Hans

Dark, intense and beautiful, each of Jasjyot's women hint at the themes of body positivity, erotica and self love that quietly run through his illustrations.

Fashion

Bloni by Akshat Bansal

Translating the ambiguous into the tangible, Akshat Bansal’s debut collection is a flirtation in black and white.

Literature

3 Oddball Zines We Love

From the shelves of Bombay Underground's rapidly growing zine movement, come three self- published zines that are just eccentric enough to deserve several reads.

Film

Ali Fazal Victoria & Abdul

This week, history’s most unlikely friendship comes alive on screen. Ali Fazal tells us what went into portraying a man whose life was swept under the rug.

Lifestyle

Matterden CFC

Mattered CFC is a space where classic English films, foreign language winners and modern cinema can all co-exist.

Music

Dream Delite

Madboy's new work is one trippy ride.

Design Issue [2017]

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Listed

Rukminee Guha Thakurta. Dhara Jain. Sumant Jayakrishnan.
pg. 19

Cover Story

V. Sunil and Mohit Jayal unfurl their design sensibilities.
pg. 33

Forecast - New Boys On The Block

Pratik Ghosh. Sajid Wajid Shaikh. Ramakrishna Saiteja. Young turks.
pg. 41

Photo Essay

Photographer Randhir Singh shifts his lens to Ahmedabad.
pg. 61

Literature

Poet Rupi Kaur on her second book, the sun and her flowers.
pg. 64

Inform

Jim Sarbh. The Madhatter. We get to know the man.
pg. 68

Fashion

Rinzin Lama and Shenali Sema tell us about their label, Untitled Co.
pg. 70

Film

Mostofa Sarwar Farooki on his debut film, No Bed of Roses.
pg. 80

Photography

Sweet Life by Sohrab Hura is haunting and beautiful. We take a look.
pg. 94

Life is Gucci

Bharat Sikka captures Gucci and its creative language.
pg. 140

Centrestage

Ali Fazal on his debut Hollywood venture, Victoria & Abdul.
pg. 146

3 Minutes

We dig into the lesser known side of designer Masaba Gupta.