Over 250 desktops and 200 motherboards, cables, 15,000 rivets and more than 9,000 screws — no, this isn’t a list of items at a junkyard but e-waste that has been given a second life as a 10-ft-tall statue by a Jaipur-based artist. Installed at the entrance of the Mall RoadContinue Reading
Forty years ago, when India was still a closed economy, Dr Prathap C Reddy set up the country’s first private, corporate hospital. The 150-bed Apollo opened on Greams Road, Chennai, in 1983. It was a gleaming, multi-specialty space built for comfort and state-of-the-art health care — very different from theContinue Reading
“Come on, vogue Let your body move to the music…” You can probably sing the rest of that chorus. But what was Madonna talking about in her 1990 song? Most listeners assumed it had something to do with being trendy, knowing the latest moves. Which, in a way, it did.Continue Reading
Isha, a 51-year-old client of mine, has never been on a date. She’s an articulate executive and a woman of the world. She heads an export house that deals in luxury furnishings; travels extensively to Europe and the US. Nonetheless, she’s never been in a relationship. She was very nervousContinue Reading
People today lead hectic lives, making it challenging to control a high-stress workplace therefore, in order to bring a pleasant element into their life and encourage space healing, there are some art pieces that one should think about incorporating into their house interior. These works of art promote strength andContinue Reading
From single words to nursery rhymes to fictional tales of adventure, a 75-year-old has been building a tiny handmade library for his granddaughter. Since 2017, retired geologist Pradip Sengupta has been handcrafting pop-up books through which Myra Sarkar, now 7, can stay in touch with her mother tongue, as sheContinue Reading
There’s a reason why the US and China have been sabre-rattling around Taiwan lately. And it’s not the same reason as 20 years ago. Back then, these were grandstanding exercises, the distant US making noises to keep the neighbourhood in check Today, there’s a very real fear that China’s “coerciveContinue Reading
Everything appears new and fresh with the beginning of a New Year where we prefer to see things from a different perspective, like to reshape and redesign them to make them more engaging and pleasing and in this endeavour, it’s imperative to keep home décor at the centre and reimagineContinue Reading
Australian singer Nick Cave came out strongly against an AI-generated track “in the style of Nick Cave” sent to him in January by a fan. It is “bullshit,” said Cave. Meanwhile, three female fine artists recently filed a class action lawsuit in the US against several AI companies, charging themContinue Reading
It’s gonna be a hard seltzer summer … what with Covid’s wake and the Roaring ’20s, drink from home and e-commerce delivery, ready-mixed drinks and all-day drinking, thronged competition and celebrity stampedes, eco-pressures and supply-chain disruption — to say nothing of wellness, cannabis and a demographic landslide as a sober-curiousContinue Reading