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NEW LANGUAGE OF CREATING ART

The sixth physical edition of the Serendipity Arts Festival will prompt visitors to unlearn set ways of engaging with and creating art to allow for newer languages to emerge

The other side of California on US Route 395

El Camino Sierra takes you past ancient bristlecone pines and glacial lakes where the weather turns in an instant Rishad

Searching for the crystalline beauties of Ladakh

A visit to the Ladakh Rocks and Minerals Museum, and looking for precious stones and crystals amid the precarious boulders of the region

THE BATTLE FOR THE SOUL OF SANTINIKETAN

The old Santiniketan way has come under fire recently. But many in the community are still striving to maintain Tagore's original vision of openness and inclusivity

The politics and the timeless appeal of 'blue gold'

An ongoing show investigates the history and significance of the natural indigo dye in fashion and design

A whiny Indian and a juicy Norwegian 'juleribbe'

It was when Jashan Joshi's face froze and he stopped chewing that I knew.

PUTTING AN INDIAN SPIN ON CEVICHE

With its sweet, sour and spicy notes, Peruvian ceviche has made its way into restaurants as chaat and salad

RADICAL VULNERABILITY

Abhishek Anicca's memoir of living with disability is an intense account shorn of heroism & sentiment, but infused with love

Tales of monkey god, distilled like 'ghee'

Sanjay Patel grew up a lonely child in California, but used art as an escape and created animations. His 'Ghee Happy' series reimagines Hindu deities as kids

Frasier Crane, still listening

In the opening episode of Frasier-first telecast in September 1993-we see radio psychiatrist Dr Frasier Crane in his Seattle home, a gorgeously bedecked apartment with a view of the Space Needle, where his father is unimpressed by the Eames chair or the Corbu lamp.

Protect pets from bad air

Air pollution can cause breathing trouble in pets too-keep an eye out for subtle clues like lethargy and snoring

In the borderless world of the Great crested grebe

I dig my face into my jacket, trying to erase the cold biting at me. In front of me is the silvery Gandak river, behind which lie the gentle slopes of Nepal. The water ripples and laughs, the clear, cutglass air making its colours a little brighter. The river must be freezing, I think.

NEW ON SCREENS

'The Crown' comes to the end of its reign, Elvis through Priscilla Presley's eyes, and more to watch this weekend

Wall Street Traders Go All-In On Great Monetary Pivot Of 2024

After clashing in recent years, Wall Street traders and the Federal Reserve are — for once— broadly in sync: The great monetary pivot is near as central bankers engineer a once-unthinkable soft landing in the world’s largest economy.

Stocks At New Highs As Fed Signals Three Cuts In 2024

Technology stocks lead rally; FPI net inflows touch 39,260 crore in December

How The Sequence Of Returns Risk Can Be A Spoiler For Your Retirement

Imagine a retiree investing just 50% of their corpus in December 2007, at the peak of euphoria in the Indian equity market during the 2003-07 bull run.

ECB Pauses Again But Warns On Inflation

The second straight pause keeps the ECB's benchmark deposit rate at 4%

The COP-28 deal left out a big point: Who pays and for what?

Only piffling sums were committed while funding needs are huge

CoP-28 should be celebrated for its big 'no excuses' call to action

The UN summit's collective resolve on fighting climate change has raised expectations of actual deeds to go with lofty words

Record digitization will spell landmark progress

Digitized land records should boost infrastructure development as the Gati Shakti platform makes use of this data while title clarity could give the poor a better chance to escape poverty

What the 10% income in LIC Jeevan Utsav policy implies

The policy only offers subscribers a guaranteed 10% payout of the sum assured annually

THE SILENT MIGRATION FROM CYCLONE CAPITAL

With no livelihoods in place amid the climate crisis, women and men in the Sunderbans are forced to move out

Lok Sabha security breach row: 15 Opposition MPs suspended

The MPs disrupted proceedings in Parliament; government says don't politicize issue

Adani's copper foray to tighten ore supply

The Kutch Copper Ltd facility is expected to come online in March next

Vedanta parent rejigs debt; S&P trims rating

Vedanta Resources plans to partially pay off and delay three bond series

Ad spends to grow 12% in 2023 to 1.09 tn

Advertising expenditure in India is expected to A grow 11.8% in 2023 to ₹1.09 trillion ($14 billion), putting the country on track to breach into the top 10 global advertising markets by 2028, a report has said.

Kia guns for 17% of India's EV car mkt

Kia India aims to corner a 15-17% share of India’s nearly 1-million-unit market for electric passenger vehicles by 2030, much higher than its overall market-share target of 10% by that year, its chief executive officer and managing director Tae-Jin Park said.

Mahindra set to drive in its first electric truck in 2025

Leading domestic automaker Mahindra & Mahindra is developing its inaugural range of electric light commercial vehicles (LCVs) to position itself in a fiercely competitive segment that is transitioning from conventional fuels to cleaner technologies such as compressed natural gas (CNG) and electrification, two people with direct knowledge of the company’s plans told Mint.

ITC stock lacks near-term spark

ITC Ltd’s investors have little to complain about. Since its meeting with analysts in December 2021, the cigarette-maker’s shares have doubled. What is more, the strategies outlined by the company at its recent analysts’ meet point to solid long-term prospects.

Udaan raises $340 mn in debt-equity mix

The unicorn's funding was led by M&G, Lightspeed Venture, DST Global