The setting is the Mumbai Hermès store. Though it is a weekday afternoon, energy levels are high and the space is bright with colour. An artist paints renditions of attending guestsâ lips on a card, as a very personalised take-home present, while assembled journalists wait for details on the much-anticipated launch of Hermès Beauty in India….
Sarojini Naidu famously quipped that it cost a lot of money to keep Mahatma Gandhi in poverty, so she would no doubt view with amusement fashion’s current obsession with quiet luxury dressing. Blame it on actor Gwyneth Paltrow’s recent attire in court during a ski trial in Utah, where her restrained style of cashmere sweaters,…
As my family and many other families across Europe head into our second week of lockdown due to the coronavirus, it seems much of the world is following suit. In these challenging times, I thought it would be useful to share some strategies from The Danish Way of Parenting’s acronym PARENT that have helped my family, and hopefully…
Q + A with Danish-parenting expert Jessica Joelle Alexander featured in ParentMap For 40 years in a row, Denmark, a small country in the north of Europe, has been cited as having the “happiest people in the world.” What’s their secret? To answer this question, we turned to cultural researcher Jessica Joelle Alexander, a Danish-parenting…
Having lived in Europe for over half my life, I’ve seen many different UNESCO( United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ) sites. From the Colosseum to the Loire Valley, to the Acropolis; a world heritage site is a protected area for having historical, scientific, or other natural or cultural features considered to be of outstanding value to humanity. The…
When I travel for food, I search for restaurants that embody their cuisine and offer a distinctive sense of place. I often stick to a straightforward rule: French food in France, Italian in Italy, and so on. But some chefs defy convention, choosing to explore their roots abroad. When they do, it often allows for…
Rescue operations stalled as water level rises in Telangana tunnel (Pic credit: PTI) HYDERABAD: Hopes for two engineers and six labourers trapped in the Srisailam Left Bank Canal (SLBC) tunnel in Telangana‘s Nagarkurnool district are diminishing, as more than 48 hours of strenuous efforts to rescue the eight people have come to a standstill, with…
French firm levels graft charges against MMRDA, seeks diplomatic intervention MUMBAI: French engineering giant Systra, which has designed and overseen the metro construction in Mumbai, has levelled allegations of corruption against senior officials of the planning agency, Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA), accusing them of seeking “undue favours” and delaying payments. Complaints, which have…
I remember vividly about 15 years ago, when Vikram Goyal and I worked on the Aircel offices in Kolkata and Gurugram. I commissioned him to make the most stunning sculptures, Bengali mukuts that we scaled up to about 8-9 feet. I recall also using a couple of dozens of his temple top finials from his…
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