The Assam Rifles Women Contingent shot into the limelight when they marched in the Republic Day parade, 2019. Major Khushboo Kanwar, who led the contingent, shares with Meera Srikant the journey that brought her to this point, her pride in the uniform and her work in the insurgency-affected areas of …
Oh hello, spring! The season of cherry blossoms, warmer sun and comfy flip flops has arrived! March 2019 has a lot of fashion surprises in store to go with the spring breeze. Deepa Kalukuri lists out the top trends that’ll overtake your wardrobes this season The fashion weeks have …
Suzanne McNeill explores the significance and the legends associated with Shakti Shakti means ‘power’ or ‘energy’ and is imagined as female. Shakti is a supreme being, created from the united power of all the gods, and is the energy behind the power of nature, of the wind, the oceans, of …
Priya Thomas shares with us the sights worth seeing in Vietnam as well as the local life that brings it alive We were served raspberry bavarois as we took off for Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, setting the tone for the delightful trip ahead. As we landed at Tan Son Naht …
The Late Krishna Kumarsinhji Bhavsinhji, Maharaja of Bhavnagar and first Indian Governor of Madras, was instrumental in changing the fortunes of the Brazilian dairy industry in the 1940s. Susan Philip tells us how… Ten-year-old Krishna travelled all the way from Bhavnagar, India, to Brazil, South America, and founded a …
Ranjani-Gayatri, Agam – the band, and Sai Shravanam, the stars of Aikya, in conversation with Janani Nagarajan on the diversity of music Aikya, presented by Global Adjustments Foundation, has in the past 10 years, reinvented the wheel to make Carnatic classical music available in formats that are traditional, yet simple …
Zia Mody, one of the founding members and managing partner, AZB & Partners, is considered among the top corporate lawyers in the country. Daughter of former attorney general Soli Sorabjee, her meteoric rise has been despite glass ceilings in a primarily male-dominated world. Mody shares with Meera Srikant some of …
The Wellers moved to India in 2014. When Paul Weller, working for Mylan, a pharmaceutical company, told his wife Erin, she thought he was teasing her. Five years down the line, she feels India is as much home as Chicago On Hearing about the MoveOn Hearing about the MoveIt …
Mahashivarathri is a time for fasting, praying, introspection and meditation. Suzanne McNeill finds out the significance of this night and how it is observed across India Legend has it that a hunter on his way home from an unsuccessful hunt was attacked by wild beasts. To escape, he climbed …
Marriages may be made in heaven, but couples have the Herculean task of translating their love for each other into a remarkable marriage on earth. This Valentine’s Day, let’s go love’s way with Anurima Das, revisiting immemorial romances, champion proposals and fairytale weddings What starts as ‘love at first …
