PROFILE OF THE WEEK

Pratik Ghosh Interactive Designer

Interactive and product designer Pratik Ghosh designs a plant based water filtration system that questions and redefines our relationship with water.

Art in Transit

The student initiative hosted its sixth Festival of Stories dedicated to turning Bangalore's metro stations into canvases for varied forms of artistic impressions.

George Saunders

Meet the Man Booker Winner: A conversation with George Saunders, one of the world’s most beloved short story writers who turned novelist earlier this year.

INTERVIEW OF THE WEEK

Menswear Collection 2017

SHIFT - Nimish Shah

The fashion designer's long standing passion for garment care led him to champion a clothing label that's meant to shift perceptions, behaviours and motivations.

'What I really want from life is to write that one timeless song, and then I could die happy.'

Lucy Rose, Singer-Songwriter

Short Take

Monica Dogra, Singer-Songwriter

Why do you do what you do?
I am not good at anything else. I can’t remember a time not wanting to do what I do. I don’t think I can live without music.

One ritual in life you can’t do away with?
Meditation.

An event from the past that has most influenced you?
My parents’ divorce influenced me quite a lot. It affected me in a way that I became freer, and it forced me into a rebellious state.

Three things people will be surprised to know about Monica Dogra.
That I’m not like drugs and rock & roll. I’m more of salads, yoga, and meditation. I don’t really come from a place of bigwigs. And I love gangster rap.

Shiver

Monica Dogra

Art

Blues Browns and Greens Artist, Balaji Ponna

Balaji’s work is a strong narrative approach a surreal plane with different imageries formulating a language of its own which is highly eclectic in nature.

Design

Isobel Mehta

In an illustrated series, Isobel Mehta reimagines her Zoroastrian family's journey from India to the UK.

Fashion

Untitled Co.

Meet Untitled Co - a new label by Rinzin Lama and Shenali Sema with an unmissable punch of flavours.

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

Fishy Business

Three restaurants that are re-imagining the concept of sea to table.

Music

Naren Chandavarkar At Home With Every Note

An experimental music composer creating a league of his own - meet Naren Chandawarkar.

Design Issue [2017]

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Listed

Rukminee Guha Thakurta. Dhara Jain. Sumant Jayakrishnan.
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Cover Story

V. Sunil and Mohit Jayal unfurl their design sensibilities.
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Forecast - New Boys On The Block

Pratik Ghosh. Sajid Wajid Shaikh. Ramakrishna Saiteja. Young turks.
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Photo Essay

Photographer Randhir Singh shifts his lens to Ahmedabad.
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Literature

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

Jim Sarbh. The Madhatter. We get to know the man.
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Fashion

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

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

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

Bharat Sikka captures Gucci and its creative language.
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Centrestage

Ali Fazal on his debut Hollywood venture, Victoria & Abdul.
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3 Minutes

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