Excerpts from a monograph on Rekha Rao Hebbar Rekha engages with the contemporary world, but her painterly concerns are equally the problems of the newly..
In the paintings and drawings of Lalu Prasad Shaw, the line- unfaltering, tensile- speaks. The elegant, stylized portraits of men and women of the Bengali..
In one of the remarkable coincidences of history, two of the world’s iconic heritage hotels, born in modest circumstances of British colonial encounters in the..
The overwhelming diversity of expression in aesthetics and form in Indian craft comes from centuries of responses to the cultural, utilitarian, sacred, ritual, historic and..
In a conversation about the cuisine of Rajasthan, it’s impossible to ignore several centuries of Rajput history, or Chef Akshraj Jodha’s ancestry that stretches back..
Julia Komp interacts continuously with the team of chefs at Ottimo, ITC Gardenia, Bengaluru, issuing a steady stream of instructions, accentuated by emphatic nods and..
British magazines, often quaintly out of date by several months, even years were a source of recipes, decorating ideas and more on plantations. This is..
The pantry cupboard in plantation homes always held neat piles of tinned foods and fruits to tide over emergencies and the heavy monsoons, when mildew..
It was a conversation with a friend’s octogenarian mother — a conversation that wandered back and forth, expanded and contracted over a couple of visits..
Leaving behind the elegant sweep of the Venetian harbour and old lighthouse, we follow cobbled lanes winding down narrow streets, all golden stone, overhung with..
