A ‘deer’ created out of discarded electronic waste at Sattva Signature Towers in Banjara Hills. The work has been created by sculptor Ranganadh Komari | Photo Credit: Siddhant Thakur/ Shot On OnePlus/ #FramesOfIndia A 14×22-foot green ‘tree’ — lush with white, pink, and yellow flowers — rises up one of the walls at Sattva Knowledge […]
A girl taking dip at Triveni Sangam, a sacred confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna, and Saraswati rivers on paush poornima at Maha Kumbh 2025 in Prayagraj on Monday. | Photo Credit: SANDEEP SAXENA My chronically-online self is usually unfazed by Internet absurdities. However, the time has come to let you know that one particular trend […]
Ente Keralam exhibition at Kanakakkunnu palace | Photo Credit: Nainu Oommen Inside a giant red and orange tent with dark blue doors resembling a prison but stripped off its sombre tones, there are multiple partitions with the model of the Central Prison and Correctional Home in Thiruvananthapuram placed at the centre. The cyan walls are filled […]
The Strangers We Know art exhibition, currently on at Neighbour Gallery in Kesavadasapuram, Thiruvananthapuram, is divided into two by a monochrome partition filled with photographs from the exhibit titled Surge by Chennai-based photographer Priyadarshini Ravichandran. The black and white portraits are displayed in a grid, bordering the entrance to another room where the rest of […]
The carpet at the Met Gala 2025 Every year, the Met Gala’s carpet goes through its iterations, metamorphosing each time with a new theme. In 2023, one saw a stunning off-white fabric, to be a canvas for the theme of the year: Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty. In 2025, the red carpet took on a […]
The members of Dabba Beat | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement A motely crew of children are jamming, drumming away on their improvised instruments while one of them vocalises a popular 90s hit number ‘Azhakiya Laila’. Meet Dabba Beat, a children’s band from Thrissur, which makes music out of scrap buckets, pots, wooden slabs, sticks, plastic […]
Dr Christopher John Paul straddles two seemingly unrelated worlds — dentistry and stand-up comedy. A dentist from Sangareddy, he spends weekdays treating patients at his clinic in Jogipet, and weekends cracking jokes on stage in Hyderabad, around 75 kilometres away. His knack for humour dates back to his college days. “I discovered I was a […]
There are nearly 35 Ramothsava banners in Bengaluru heralding the music season, starting with the distribution of kosambri and paanaka to beat the heat wave that seems to be a part of this Ramanavami celebrations. So, what sets apart the Sree Ramaseva Mandali celebrations at Fort High School grounds in Chamarajpet? SN Varadaraj, son of founder SV Narayanaswmay […]
