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‘A book cover today must work in the tactile form and also as a thumbnail on screen’: Bena Sareen
Bena Sareen won the 11th Oxford Bookstore Book Cover Prize for designing the cover for Amitava Kumar’s novel, My Beloved Life, published by Aleph Book Company. This is her second win, after a previous award in the inaugural edition for her cover design of Talking of Justice by Leila Seth, also published by Aleph Book…
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Kolkata’s Barfind Is In Mumbai As A Bar Residency Programme
Of the Indian cities making a mark for themselves for exceptional cocktails, Kolkata is a top contender. Modern and innovative bars like AMPM, The Conversation Room and Nutcase are punching above their weight class. The new kid on the block was supposed to be Barfind, a Kolkata speakeasy conceptualised and spearheaded by new-age hospitality venture,…
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New Breguet Watches Celebrating 225 Years Of The Tourbillon
The Swiss watchmaking industry owes a lot to a significant invention developed by Breguet 225 years ago that changed the course of mechanical watches and continues to be relevant till date. The major history-changing invention was the creation of tourbillon developed by its founder Abraham-Louis Breguet. It was on June 26, 1801, that A.-L. Breguet…
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Village Walks To Vintage Drives; Khas Mahal Suites Flips The Royal Script
Unlike most luxury hospitality offerings in Udaipur that leans on familiar tropes of palatial nostalgia, lake-facing opulence and a brush with royal living, a new entrant, Khas Mahal Suites, from the evolving Fateh Collection portfolio offers all this with a more grounded, experiential lens. One that is rooted in immersive moments, authenticity and familiarity that…
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How India influenced the US rebellion against the British 250 years ago
July 4 marks the 250th anniversary of the day America’s colonists issued a declaration stating their desire to be free of British rule. The anniversary is an occasion to revisit two questions that are fundamental to US history: what motivated the American colonies to turn against their overlords across the Atlantic? And how did an…
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Short, slow and now old, how does Lionel Messi still dominate football?
Lionel Messi is 39 years old. He is 1.70 metres tall – shorter than almost every defender he plays against. He was never astoundingly quick, and he is slower now. And yet, watching this World Cup, you would be hard pressed to name a player doing more damage: he has scored the equal most goals…
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After WhatsApp, Centre seeks responses from Telegram and Signal on usernames: Reports
The Union government on Friday issued notices to messaging platforms Telegram and Signal seeking details of the safeguards they have put in place to prevent fraud and impersonation through username-based communication features, the Hindustan Times reported, quoting an unidentified government official. The notice was two days after the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology had…