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A design for freedom
Google lived up to its doodle expectations yesterday on the occasion of India's 70th year of Independence. The doodle was a flamboyant quilling effort depicting the Parliament House in New Delhi, and was the work of Sabeena Karnik, 34, whom this diarist had reported about earlier this year.
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Pic courtesy/google; Sabeena Karnik
The Chembur-based artist and Instagram sensation says that it took her two months to turn paper and create the artwork from scratch.
Sabeena Karnik
"The idea was to create a Google doodle that best represents India, in colour and form. The Parliament building was mandatory in the brief given to me by the art directors at Google. Everything else was up to me to create, so I designed peacocks, and used the Ashok Chakra as part of the central rangoli design," she tells us. Karnik shares that the original artwork has been purchased and displayed at Google's India head office in Gurgaon.
Basanti, and some Lucknowi tadka
After treating the city to Asian, European and Modern Australian cuisines, restaurateur Hitesh Keswani is set to launch a new venture, Basanti, in Versova to give Mumbaikars a taste of authentic Lucknowi fare. The desi restaurant is the result of a collaboration between Keswani and TV actor Aamir Ali and childhood friend Suraj Samath.
(From left) Hitesh Keswani, Aamir Ali and Suraj Samath
"Aamir is a good friend and he was interested in collaborating on a project. Since I come from the restaurant background, Suraj and Aamir both thought it best if the three of us came together, and that's how Basanti was conceptualised," Keswani said.
A fashionable decade
Winning the British Council Young Fashion Entrepreneur award and the Regionals of the Woolmark Prize last year, designer Nachiket Barve has a lot to be proud of as he completes 10 years in the fashion industry.
Nachiket Barve
As a fitting addition to his career, Barve will be launching a festive wear line for the first time. "I have loved the process of creating garments that are intricately crafted, have functionality and a certain timelessness to them. Festive wear is therefore a natural extension of what I do. The process started as more and more clients kept asking me why I wasn't showing what I did for them on the runway," the designer told this diarist.
When we ask if he has ever been star-struck by another designer, he is forthcoming, "Meeting Azzedine Alaia and Valentino Garavani in Paris were pretty exciting moments. I was there on a scholarship awarded by the French Government while I was at NID. Working at Celine when Michael Kors was the creative director was also a pretty special experience."
Will men find this funny?
What ensues when five witty ladies get together to talk about Indian men, women and politics? A laugh riot and some priceless wisdom. Yesterday, a comedy TV channel released a series of videos featuring actor and former VJ Anuradha Menon, RJ Malishka Mendonsa, and stand-up comediennes Radhika Vaz, Neeti Palta and Vasu Primlani, where a set of questions is posed to them and they tell it like it is.
Radhika Vaz
Sample this. Things Indian men could work on — Menon: They live in a state of entitlement... Mendonsa: Manspreading. They all, however, had a common piece of advice for young Indian men: Consent is king. No means no.
A jhalak of Indore in Mumbai
Discussions on Pointillism and nature in art filled the air on Monday evening when the travelling exhibition, Time & Being, reached the iconic gallery in Mumbai. Featuring 35 paintings by Indore-based artist Aparna Bidasaria, the exhibition showcases her muse, the banyan tree, and has been curated by noted art critic Uma Nair.
Aparna Bidasaria, Uma Nair and Brinda Miller. Pic/Sayyed Sameer Abedi
"I love the textures and how she has used nature because I use a lot of nature in my work, so I can identify with it," said well-known artist Brinda Miller, who inaugurated the exhibition.
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