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Shashanka Ghosh

The director of Veere Di Wedding opens up about his reclusive nature (and his lovehate relationship with Sonam Kapoor)

All At Sea

The Volvo Ocean Race is the toughest sailing event in the world, and it takes a special kind of sailor to participate in it.

Towards A Brand New Future

Breitling is in the midst of a radical transformation of its product, marketing and communications strategy under a dynamic new CEO

Coveted Collaborations

When brands get together, the result is often magic.

Kill Your Darlings

Untouched by clichés, unaffected by convention, undeterred by censors, Sudip Sharma, the writer of NH10 and Udta Punjab, is laying a fearless path for screenwriting in Hindi cinema.

A Musical Odyssey

When the National Centre of Performing Arts (NCPA) in Mumbai launched the Symphony Orchestra of India (SOI), it was without knowing if it could find enough musicians or audiences to fill up the auditorium. But, in ten years, it has launched 20 successful seasons, invited guest conductors such as Charles Dutoit and Augustin Dumay and soloists such as Zakir Hussain and Maria João Pires, and toured Switzerland and Russia. It has launched a school to train future musicians and created several avenues for people to understand and appreciate western classical music more. As India’s only professional symphony orchestra, it has accomplished so much in so little time. Friend and fan of the SOI, Anil Dharker recounts what the orchestra has come to mean to Mumbai.

Q&A With Kidambi Srikanth

The ace badminton player is on a hot streak of form, having won consecutive Superseries titles in Indonesia and Australia.

Full Scale Ahead

There’s only one thing that automotive journalist Cyrus Dhabar loves more than his food — his collection of scale model cars.

Eating Wild In Hokitika

`Wildly’ exotic specialties like deer penis pate, crisply fried locusts, seagull eggs, crisp pig ears, boiled snails and stallion semen shots make the annual Hokitika Wildfoods Festival in New Zealand, a culinary celebration like none other on the planet

Becoming Superman

Mayank Vaid, who is the fastest Indian to complete the Ultraman, is now gearing up for his first hundred-miler — Run the Rann.

Loitering In Kamathipura

See Mumbai in a new light with RaahGeer Citywalks, which takes you on night walking tours inside the red-light district.

Sneakerheads Unite

With the launch of sneakerheads’ communities such as Sneaker Talk India, and sneaker boutiques such as VegNonVeg, the global sneaker culture has finally come home.

Gin Comes Of Age In India

India welcomed its first artisanal gin Greater Than last year, as well as gin-focussed bars such as Toast & Tonic and PDA recently. The golden age of the silver liquid is finally upon us.

Too Bad, Aziz Ansari

The #MeToo bandwagon juddered to a halt at the Aziz Ansari junction recently.

Chapman & Maclain Way On The Making Of Wild Wild Country

Netflix’s recent docu-series brings back to life the fascinating story of Osho’s Rajneeshpuram commune in America. The Way brothers — the director duo behind the show — take us behind the scenes of the most talked-about show in the country right now.

Cyrus Todiwala

OBE; Head Chef, The River Restaurant -- Acron Waterfront, Goa; chef-proprietor of Cafe Spice Namasté and Mr Todiwala's Kitchen, UK

The New Theatre District

Aram Nagar, the hub of Bollywood’s casting industry, has been transformed into a destination for alternative and fringe performing arts experiences.

Nandita Das

The actress-turned director's passion project, Manto, which has been selected for the prestigious Un Certain Regard section at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, follows the travails of one of the most controversial authors of the subcontinent

A New Dram

Never before has there been so much change in the world of whisky, from all corners of the world, at the same time.

Mr Big

Bollywood stars may have moved on to more opulent ways to arrive, but the Q7 — now in petrol — can still deliver the goods, if not the flash.

Shah Rukh Khan's Burden

The bad boy SRK of Darr and Baazigar fascinated us. Lover boy Raj/Rahul enthralled us. Don disarmed us with his charm. The NASA scientist in Swades touched us. The Muslim who is also 'The Bhai’, however, raises nationalistic hackles.

All The Single Daddies

Divorced, adoptive, widowed or by choice, men raising children alone face a unique set of challenges.

I Don't Like Being Looked At

Arguably one of the best actors of our times, Konkona Sensharma has followed in her mother’s footsteps and is debuting as a director, with A Death in the Gunj. She curled up on a chair with some cola and smokes to casually chat about movies, film-making and not finding enough time to watch them.

The Height Of Running

La Ultra – The High ultramarathon, held in Ladakh, is among the toughest (and least known) races in the world.

A (big) Small Car

Volvo’s XC40 is its smallest SUV, but it certainly doesn’t act like it.

Have You Tasted Blood?

The question’s quite literal. In Scandinavian countries, South America, Asia and even India, blood has been an exciting — and delicious — ingredient for a variety of dishes.

The Legendary Rivalry Revisited

They were the two greatest sitar players of the post-independence generation and lifelong adversaries. Vilayat Khan and Ravi Shankar were contemporaries who played together on stage only once, in 1952, when the former stole the show. Journalist and author Namita Devidayal explores this unique rivalry in The Sixth String of Vilayat Khan (Westland Publications), her brilliant new biography of the mercurial Hindustani classical musician, from which this piece is excerpted.

The Actor's Actor

Pick the most acclaimed and talked about films of the last three years, and chances are that Pankaj Tripathi has been in them. He’s become every director’s go-to guy for natural and effortless performances – and the audience loves him too. BY

The Interview

In the last seven years, as a director and producer in the Hindi film industry, Rai has had a very successful run, directing films like Tanu Weds Manu and Raanjhanaa and producing Newton, Shubh Mangal Saavdhan and Mukkabaaz, among others. With his new release, the Shah Rukh Khanstarrer Zero, he has directed the biggest film of his career.

Chronicler Of Lives On Mumbai Locals

Mumbai’s local trains take on new meaning in the Instagram photographs of Anushree Fadnavis.