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Rohan Chakravartys cartoons highlights the grim state of the environment across the world with wry smiles thrown in.

Lime juice 1tbsp Method: Boil water and Nannari powder. Leave it overnight. Add to it jaggery and some lime juice. Strain and serve chilled. This powder is available online. Jigarthanda Jigarthanda, a popular drink from Madurai, is known for its cooling properties. Himanshu Rai, chief dietician and nutritionist, Think You, says, “This is helpful in easing different body pains and good to counter acidity.” Ingredients Condensed milk 1 tbsp Badam pisin or almond gum or katira gond 1 tsp Ice-c...

Express News Service The sweltering season has us all looking at clothes that are both comfortable and classic. Raghavendra Rathore Jodhpur’s new summer collection is all this and more. With silhouettes made using the season’s staple—cotton—Rathore has launched a range of bespoke tailored looks that also include specialised denims and gabardines in a host of colours. “The beauty of bespoke is that one is not a victim to fashion cycles. However, one cannot entirely negate the concept o...

Express News Service For those looking for a far more hands-on approach to furniture rather than just going to a store and buying it, the Mangrove Collective in Delhi is just the place. With products that are a fusion of design, art, craft and technology, the firm works around the concept of the ‘design and make workshop’ which is not just about offering a service, but about celebrating local resources and traditional craftsmanship, and where designers, craftsmen and clients are all equal ...

Clippings from newspapers and magazines. Cardboard. Myriad colours and textures. Sepia-tinged paper. Pages from his artistic biography… All this and more seamlessly merge deep undertones of uncertainty with a sense of joie de vivre as part of octogenarian artist SG Vasudev’s recent exhibition of collages, ‘Montage of Memories’, at Gallery Sumukha, Bengaluru. “Almost a year-and-a-half ago, Premilla Baid of the Sumukha Gallery told me that she would like to celebrate 25 years of the gal...

Express News Service A sea of people had gathered around a hole-in-the-wall shop in Mysores bustling Devaraja Market. Social distancing was obviously not their thing. A local vendor was selling hot pieces of the local favourite, Mysore Pak. The sweets were handed out on pieces of newspaper. One bite, and we know why the noise here never dies down. The shop, Guru Sweets, is the oldest sweet shop in the city. It was once owned by the ancestors of Kakasura Madappa, who is credited with the inventi...

Express News Service A 25-minute ride from Ahmedabad’s international airport brings us into India’s first smart city, Gujarat International Finance Tec-City. Our destination is the Grand Mercure Gandhinagar GIFT City that we visited to get away from the routineness of life that has come to become the new normal.   You could consider the hotel if you’re looking for a quick getaway from in and around the city. You can choose to duck into bed and sleep off your stay like many youngsters lik...