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Interview by: J. Shruti. Photographed by Akanksha Pandey. Assisted by Asad Sheikh. The “party” in Party Office seems like a subversion of the term’s traditional use, but it also offers an expansive way of looking at it by acknowledging that the bodies that exist in clubs, in public spaces, are inherently political because of how they are perceived. Could you tell me how you arrived at this name?One of the ideas behind the practice of Party Office is that the gathering is a site where people can engage with each other without a formal commitment to something. The way the neoliberal system judges what is “partying” is to think of it as this wasteful thing where you are doing nothing, b...

Text by Shraddha Jahagirdar-Saxena. Images courtesy Ulysse Nardin Siddhant Chaturvedi wearing the Ulysse Nardin Diver 44mm The “outsider” to Hindi cinema — who had earlier made small-screen appearances in the coming-of-age comedy series Life Sahi Hai (2016) and the sports-drama about cricket, Inside Edge (2017) — grabbed eyeballs with his natural turn in his film debut as the deep-thinking rapper MC Sher in Gully Boy, despite the presence of superstar Ranveer Singh. Siddhant Chaturvedi followed this success by ensuring he didn’t get typecast and was next seen as Kunal Singh, a con man (Bunty aur Babli 2, 2021), and the tragic lover Zain Oberoi (Gehraiyaan, 2022). Earlier in May of this...

Library My maternal grandmother was a woman who loved to read. She wanted her children to study and make a life for themselves. ‘She used to fly into a temper if she felt we were slacking off in our studies,’ my mother remembers. ‘She once tore up my books because she thought I was not being serious enough. She knew education was the only thing that would ensure we didn’t end up with her life.’ From my mother’s account of her mother, I can glimpse signs of depression. She rarely smiled. She read a lot, she kept to herself, and flew into unexpected rages. In her description, I see my mother. In my mother, I often see myself. My grandmother came from a well-off family. Her brothers...

Text by Ranjabati Das. Photographs by Asad Sheikh. Styled by Sarah Rajkotwala. “Less Is More”, her black T-shirt proclaims in contrasting white capital letters, offering a glimpse into her psyche at the outset of our Zoom conversation (she is at her studio in Haripur, a tiny township in the Kangra district of Himachal). It coheres perfectly with the deliberate restraint that marks much of her work – as an actor, painter and writer – lending nuance while avoiding heavy-handedness. In her upcoming memoir, A Country Called Childhood, Deepti Naval continues down this path, steering clear of ostentatious language and, therefore, tedium, even though she packs it with exhaustive details, leaving ...

Travel Text by Mallika Chandra. Images by Hansraj Dochaniya (courtesy Jaipur Rugs) Brahmaand collection One positive change the pandemic effected was to bring city dwellers closer to natural rhythms. For one, we started to look up. No longer was the rising sun just a mundane fixture signalling the start of a hectic workday. No longer was the moon a mere orb in the sky, which one only saw if one remembered to look away from a screen and out of the window. Stars were visible (again) and the clear, pollution-free skies became a daily respite from the harshest of lockdowns. For architect-designer Ashiesh Shah, the starlit night skies inspired age-old questions about the mysteries held wit...

Luxury & Brands Text by Shirin Mehta.   Dior’s artistic director of menswear, Kim Jones, in a leading-edge association with environmental organisation Parley for the Oceans, gave the fashion house a new direction towards a much more sustainable future, as seen through the Dior Men Fall 2022 Beachwear Capsule collection. Parley for the Oceans and its collaborative network are all about taking action against ocean threats with a strategy called Parley AIR: Avoid, Intercept, Redesign. Creating eco-innovative yarns and fabrics that include jacquard, mesh-knot, and technical canvas from upcycled plastic has been the focus of this joint research project. The French luxury fashion house’s ateliers surmounted the technical challenge of ...

That sound you hear is wedding bells finally ringing on Chicago Fire‘s Season 10 finale. But Severide and Stella didn’t make it down the aisle without some hiccups, and their honeymoon might not be so peaceful either. Let’s start at the beginning: Severide is asked to testify before a grand jury against Campbell. When the firefighter shows up to give his testimony, he spots one of Campbell’s guys with a knife. The two get into a  fight, during which Severide kicks him… out a window to his death. Severide is clearly shaken to have taken a man’s life, but everyone reassures him that it was self-defense. Having attacked a firefighter in front of witnesses, Campbell has now left the Windy City, the authorities tell Severide. So that’s good, right? Not so fast… RELATED STORIES In...

<!-- --> Hrithik Roshan pictured with Saba Azad at Karan Johar's party. New Delhi: Hrithik Roshan and rumoured girlfriend Saba Azad frequently feature on the trends list for their relationship. Well, the reason we brought this up today is because they just made their relationship red carpet official at Karan Johar's 50th birthday bash held at the Yash Raj Studios in Mumbai on Wednesday night. Both Hrithik Roshan and Saba Azad were seen twinning in black outfits as they walked towards the venue together. Both Hrithik and Saba happily posed together for the cameras at the bash. Hrithik Roshan and Saba Azad were first pictured together in January, after which their dating rumours began. See photos of Hrithik Roshan and Saba Azad here: Saba Azad with Hrithik Roshan. Saba Azad w...

Photo Credits: Paramount Pictures & Claudio Miranda ("Top Gun: Maverick"); 20th Century Studios ("The Bob's Burgers Movie") googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1553617519041-2'); }); Memorial Day weekend has often been one of the busiest periods of the year throughout theatrical exhibition’s history, and that will ring true again with the long awaited launch of Top Gun: Maverick. Just one year ago, moviegoing’s recovery was in its early stages as major markets reopened in time for A Quiet Place Part II‘s theatrically exclusive release over the May holiday frame — a pivotal moment on the long pandemic road to the rebound of movie theater attendance. One year later, significant pro...

Earlier in the trial, Ellen Barkin, with whom Mr. Depp was also romantically involved in the 1990s, called him a “controlling” and “jealous man,” recounting an incident in a Las Vegas in which, she said, Mr. Depp threw a wine bottle across a hotel room. She said there had been a fight going on between Mr. Depp and other people in the room, but she could not remember the cause of it. The Virginia case was sparked by a 2018 op-ed in The Washington Post, in which Ms. Heard said her career suffered after she became a “public figure representing domestic abuse.” The article did not mention Mr. Depp by name, but he has asserted that its allusions to their relationship “devastated” his acting career. The seven-person jury is also considering Ms. Heard’s countersuit, which says Mr. Depp defamed h...