Sawantwadi Palace Boutique Art Hotel

This Palace of Arts offers guests an experience that embraces the past and present.

 

Tiny But Mighty

Artists Aparajita Jain Mahajan and Elaine Luther are scaling it down but taking up space 

The Parking Enthusiast

From our latest salon, Radha Rh on making and self publishing (our) Parking Magazine.

 

 

We Like Art Mandai

The public exhibition returned this Republic Day, giving us reason to celebrate.

 

Party Office

The collective founder Vidisha Fadescha on queering time, parties as sites of liberation and their experience of Documenta 15.

How To Do Nothing

The reading room at St+art India Mumbai Urban Art Festival that invited people to slow down.

 

Embracing Traditions for a Sustainable Future

To introduce What Design Can Do’s Make It Circular challenge, Ayush Chauhan shares an Indian perspective on circular economies.

The Alternative Bombays

Architect Robert Stephen’s book Bombay Imagined investigates the city that wasn’t.

 

Eating in London with Jonathan Nunn

The British-Asian founder of Vittles takes us on a food tour of Park Royal.

 

Cut Fruit

We visit designer and fibre artist Vaidehi Lilladhar Thakkar to learn about her experiments with Fiber Flats.

Full Moonshine

We visited Pune’s Moonshine Meadery to learn about honey, mead making, and their many experiments.

 

Field Notes: Latika Nehra on Coming Home to Quartz

The visual and ceramic artist returns to Jaipur to learn blue pottery.

In The Interim

Bombay gets a rare alternative arts space — for now.

 

A Handmade Himalayan Hotel

A sanctuary in the hills made by and for artists

 

The Print Out

From inbox to install, Pulp Society offers a tactile and immersive contemporary art experience in lockdown.

Making The Irregular Times

Talking all things print and publishing with the independent quarterly art and design newspaper

 

Kaamna Patel on Making Photobooks

The publisher of Editions JOJO shares her experience of working with the photobook.

Making the 1Shanthiroad Cookbook

A glimpse behind the scenes and an interview with 1Shanthiroad and Reliable Copy.

 

At Home with Areez Katki

The Aotearoa-based artist and writer on the personal and universal narratives emerging from his ancestral home in Bombay.


 

Field Notes from Kakkathuruthu Island

Maneesha Panicker on building her backwaters hotel Kayal Island Retreat and coping with Covid.


Inside Ravi Vazirani's Bandra Abode

A tour of the interior designer's Mumbai rental.

At Home with Annah Chakola 

We visit the curator-designer’s Kochi home.

 

Saffron Wiehl

A peek inside the home, studio and life of the Goa-based artist and illustrator. 

 

Meet Meraki Motorcycles

Ehsan Niroomand's bike workshop is terrifically organised.

 

Nagaland by Lesly Lotha

Textural glimpses and scenes from her life in the North East.

 

Narendra Bhawan

This Bikaner hotel is a fitting ode to the grand uncle who owned it.

The Spa in a Dungeon

Nothing like an erstwhile warrior fort for a spot of relaxation.

 

Night at the Museum

We stay at the little known Ginger House Museum Hotel in Fort Kochi that is at once ephemeral in nature and filled with history. 

The Okm Hotel

Lakshman Sagar, a resort in Rajasthan’s badlands is setting an example in low-impact luxury.

 

Inside Chamar Studio

Rajyashri Goody and founder Sudheer Rajbhar discuss reclaiming a slur
and the difference between art and artisan.

 

 

Green Period

Comic artist Aindri Chakraborty shares her journey with menstruation since her very first period.

 

Mia Morikawa's Natural Self Care Experiments

This low-impact beauty routine uses only edibles.

How to Create Less Trash

Easy ideas for generating less waste.

Aunty Planty on Insects as the New Sustainable Protein

Back with something new to digest, our resident columnist on insects investigates entomophagy.

Aunty Planty on Sustainable Coffee

Everything you didn't know you didn't know about coffee and where to find a kinder cuppa.

 

Field Notes: Kerehaklu

A day in the life of biologist and farmer Pranoy Thipaiah at his family’s Chikmagalur plantation.

 


Young Love in Small Town India

London-based designer Ashish’s earnest homage to small town living.


 

Sunset from the Sculpture Park

Contemporary art revives a former pleasure palace within Nahargarh Fort.

 

The No-Mad Settles

Tour No-Mad Fabric Shop, the decor label’s first permanent home. 

 

How to Have a Sustainable Wardrobe

Tips and tricks for a more ethical and earth-friendly closet.

 

Welcome to Café de la Paix

Designer Kunal Merchant on restoring and reinvigorating the Irani cafe’s iconic bentwood chairs.


Sisters in Beirut

Siblings Karuna Ezara and Nayantara Parikh send us a love letter from Lebanon.

 


The Other Book of Things

We go behind the scenes with authors Rashmi Varma and Swapnaa Tamhane, and photographer Prarthna Singh during the making of their book Sār.

 

City of Liberation by Bombay Atelier

Shehr-E-Nijaat is a cinematic, minimalist short film inspired by the studio’s ‘Crow’ chair.

Wolf Bites

Art, design and retail converge in the Theatre of Stories.

 

Svärtan

IKEA meets NIFT Delhi in their first India collection that ditches the cliches in lieu of blackness.  

 

Jasjyot Singh Hans x Curators of Clay

We took the off-roads to this ceramic studio to chronicle their collaboration with the artist.

 

Litrahb Perfumery

An art critic turned perfumer on creating fragrances that are modern, luxurious and low-impact.