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The Couture Council of Fashion Institute of Technology presented Italian designer Valentino Garavani  with the 2011 Couture Council Award for artistry, this September at Lincoln Center. We reproduce here a piece that was written when the designer announced his retirement ...Read More

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    It was love at first sight. A instant romance. There they were; suspended from a high ceiling, covering the atrium with a riot of colour. The incredibly alive forms and their inner light instantly took me in. I couldn’t stop  glancing back to take ...Read More

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Take a small detour from the famous Spice Route of old into a relatively undiscovered part of rural Rajasthan and one of the world’s only open-air art galleries. Painted houses fade like painted ladies of old. Their stately presence, battered ...Read More

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A couple of years after I moved to Mumbai, a Bangalore friend of mine asked me if I missed living in Bangalore. I told him I did. He waited for me to add something to that response. After a while, ...Read More

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 This is a love story like no other but let me start at the very beginning. Two years ago when I was editing life stories of Indian women for the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, I received a mail from Aamrapali Bhogle. My ...Read More

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When you arrive at Chandra and Anal Jain's home, you walk into a radiant energy field. The couple belong to a certain lost age of refinement, unconditional warmth and hospitality that translates into tall glasses of lemonades, cheese crackers with ...Read More

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There is a certain honest-to-goodness quality about actor Soni Razdan that translates into a commitment to the moment no matter what she does. Be it the vulnerable fierceness she exuded in Mahesh Bhatt's film Saraansh or the comically mean daughter-in-law ...Read More