Rezwan Razack, a real estate developer, is opening the country's first museum of banknotes printed in India since 1770s
The plot-lines are simple, often simplistic, the characters are plastic, and the production values basic -- so what makes C.I.D, the crime thriller on Sony, such a hit?
Many photographers descended on Bhopal after December 3, 1984, but the work of Raghu Rai and Pablo Bartholomew define, for most people in India and the world, the unspeakable horrors of the 'worst industrial disaster ever'. Their photograph of a lifeless infant, nothing but his face visible against the backdrop of a mass grave, has become the definitive image of the disaster.
Meet Kunal Basu, the novelist of the book which is turned into a movie by Aparna Sen starring Rahul Bose, Raima Sen and a Japanese actress.
Indian women continue to suffer endometriosis while Padma Lakshmi is its celebrity face.
The interiors of The Leela Kempinski, Gurgaon have been carefully designed to reflect the city's evolution.
Anjana Bhargav fashions a modern home that's at once plush and comfortable.
This is Rabi Rashmi Abasan, India's first "solar housing complex". Piloted by the West Bengal Renewable Energy Development Authority (WBREDA), the 26 villas in this complex are a showcase for the exciting possibilities that BIPV - building integrated photovoltaic - technology offers for residential projects of a similar nature.
From sussing out exclusive addresses to doing up the interiors - Casa Forma is a one-stop property services outfit for the uber rich
Designed in-house by Orra, a jewellery house that specialises in diamonds, the IPL trophy is pure bling.
Wildlife filmmaker Mike Pandey's house is an interesting space where inexpensive materials have been used to create expressive environs. Concern for the environment, for maintaining harmony between the built area and surrounding nature, and respect for all life forms is evident everywhere in the Pandey house. Most of the articles around the house have been salvaged from other places and everything is ecologically recycled. This is one house where every member has space.
Move over swimming pools and health clubs - eco-friendly is the new must-have in the high-end residential sector.
Jagan Shah, architect and historian, picks on 20 mid-career architects and calls them the new moderns. He believes these architects define the contemporary Indian style of building. But contemporary is not an architectural style that merely tacks on Indian motifs or symbols to the structure, or mimics vernacular architecture. Shah picks on multidisciplinary insights and a widening of agendas to include concerns about climate ecology and gender, going beyond national identity.
Indians have evolved as consumers...but retail design hasn't exactly kept pace. Except for a few stores
Will the second master plan and MAP Chennai Region help the city overcome the problems of rapid urbanisation?
The other trend is towards the big and bigger, especially in the retail sector. Take The Great India Place in Noida, Unitech's 15 lakh sq ft "shoppertainment" destination which opened earlier this year.
Architects Anupam Bansal and Rajesh Dongre find interesting ways to blend their buildings with the surrounding landscape.
Bedding is becoming a major buy for spendthrift Indians. Many luxury bed linen brands are entering the market.
Golf Course Road in Gurgaon symbolises smart new India like almost everything does in this Haryana boom-town. Swish, glass-cladded IT, ITeS offices; big, and bigger, malls; and a series of premium, gated residential complexes along the broad, dusty avenues here -- DLF BelAir, Parsvanath PrideAsia, EmaarMGF's Palm Springs, etcetera, etcetera. It is thus only fitting that something called "Street of Dreams" should be located along this road.
In a notice to the stock exchanges a few days ago, DLF declared that it was going to consider international acquisitions and investments in development projects abroad. Ansals API tied up with Malaysia's UEM Group to form a 60:40 joint venture company, Ansal Api-UEM Contracts Pvt Ltd, which could bid for government projects in Malaysia, as also projects worldwide.