‘I prepare by not preparing’
INTERVIEW OF THE WEEK

Huma Qureshi in a still from Leila

‘I prepare by not preparing’ Huma Qureshi

Sometimes overpreparation kills the spontaneity, says the actor who is headed to Hollywood after Leila.
PROFILE OF THE WEEK

Ode to Odd 
 Megha Ramaswamy, The Odds

A brave new film puts the spotlight on growing up in Mumbai and breaking culture barriers.

Take 5

Take 5

Afrojack

Contextualise yourself in one line. 
Crazy. 

First memory of music? 
Listening to electronic music group, The Prodigy, on loop 

Why do you do what you do? 
Because there is nothing else I would be doing right now. 

The one label a person from the 31st century writing about us would use to describe humanity today?
Unsound. 

3 things that influence your work?
Location, time, my emotional status.

We must never be seduced by the contemporary, and try to reorient the present to the modern and the historical, and while doing so test our own imaginations.

Shanay Jhaveri
Women in Publishing


Women in Publishing


5 women in Publishing who have helped shape the careers of celebrated writers and found a suitable space for their stories.

Eat Me, Said the Garden

Eat Me, Said the Garden

The smell of fresh grass and more to smoke(house) this summer!

FASHION ISSUE 2019

  • pg. 19

    Fashion

    Retrospective

    THE FASHION OF NOW: Miroslava Duma, Bandana Tewari, Manish Arora

  • pg. 33

    Fashion

    Forecast

    Wajahat Rather, Shreya & Priyal Mewara, Viraj & Vishesh Khanna

  • pg. 45

    Film

    Talent

    Ridham Janve: The Gold Laden Sheep

  • pg. 50

    Design

    Talent

    Tanushree Shukla, Lijo John Mathew & Madhushitha Aravind, Malaika Carr

  • pg. 56

    Inform

    Umeed Mistry: The Man with Gills

  • pg. 58

    Music

    Talent

    No Honey: Abhilasha, Keshav & Suyash

  • pg. 60

    Art

    Talent

    Amshu Chukki: The Tour, Onomatopoeia & Other Works

  • pg. 72

    Literature

    Extract

    The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters by Balli Kaur Jaiswal

  • pg. 79

    Film

    Life's Realities

    Three Identical Strangers by Tim Wardle

  • pg. 84

    Film

    Interview

    Vasan Bala

  • pg. 86

    3 Minutes

    Jim Sarbh

  • pg. 90

    Lifestyle

    Travelogue

    Narendra Bhawan Bikaner, Atlantis The Palm and Chambal.