Tribute What does Japanese designer Issey Miyake’s inspiration mean today for Indian fashion?

Tribute What does Japanese designer Issey Miyake’s inspiration mean today for Indian fashion?

What do we lose when a designer like Issey Miyake — with global impact on how the human form can determine the shape of clothes, the dance between engineering, technology and textile — is gathered to dust? What do social media “likes” and traction to Miyake’s obituaries suggest? Miyake on the cover of TIME magazine … Read more

The promise of prose

The promise of prose

The book has interconnected stories of several women characters located in Jaipur and Japan Kintsugi is not a novel of rich ideas, it’s not a grand drama, doesn’t attempt any stylistic experiment, and yet managed to hold me till the very end. Impressed by Anukrti Upadhyay’s previous novella Daura, a layered narrative in multiple and … Read more