Archives: '12 Issue 01

As restaurants and bakeries re-interpret the use of spices by replacing candied orange with cumin and lace our cupcakes with a swirl of wasabi and sugar cream instead of everyday vanilla, Verve taps the trend

Sheetal Wadhwa Munshaw discovers the romance of the rosé and pairs some North Indian food with this refreshing wine

A newly-minted Opera House occupies pride of place on the Muscat landscape...manicured trees line the bustling roadways; malls and souks co-exist.... Shraddha Jahagirdar-Saxena returns from a short sojourn in the Omani city with memories of a mixed medley

It’s time for new beginnings. Get set to up your cool quotient this year by simply being at the right place, anytime. Verve locates some fresh spaces that are guaranteed to take you places

As the Italian fashion house, Gucci celebrates its 90th anniversary, Verve discovers fashion history being made and recorded

On his recent India visit, Henri Loyrette, director of the famed Louvre in Paris, meets Verve, and reveals his hopes to work closely with Indian collections

A shared passion for food and wine brought them together and while Joel Cadbury has nothing to do today with the chocolate business that his great grandfather created, he and wife Divia live the gourmand life in London. Verve catches up with them over brunch at their 14th century pub in Cookham, over French toast and grilled strawberries

Writer, director, producer, actor, singer and chat-show host…Farhan Akhtar plays out all his roles with equal panache. Formerly scrappy and lazy – by his own admission – his creative energies over the years have made him the darling of the masses. Verve interacts with the uber-cool heartthrob on the eve of his next release, Don 2

One bagged the National Award for her very first film. The other managed one of the biggest coups in Bollywood by casting Sridevi and Amitabh Bachchan together after almost two decades in her first bravura project. Together, they represent the growing breed of strong-headed women directors who are here to tell their tales, on their own terms. Avantika Hari Agarwal and Gauri Shinde talk to Verve about expectations, experiences and the heady magic of being able to spin a story....

She can barely construct a complete sentence in Hindi Yet cutting-edge filmmaker Anurag Basu has picked her to play a narrator in his upcoming film Barfee, opposite major players Ranbir Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra. Is Ileana D’Cruz destiny’s child or is there something more to her? Verve finds out....