Archives: '13 Issue 07

Combine business with luxury at the well-appointed Alila Bangalore in Westfield. Its relaxing, conducive ambience willl ensure your stay is both comfortable and productive

An expansive property that is situated on one of the largest lagoons in the region, The Taj Exotica Resort & Spa, Maldives effortlessly blends luxury and landscape – and transforms a family holiday into a memorable one

Proud of its Indian heritage, The Oberoi, Dubai is an international luxury, business and leisure property. Verve checks out the distinctive experiences and suave service of the swanky newly-minted hotel

Cover girl Esha Gupta relives the glory of the era of pop art, the decades of the 50s and 60s when individual expression and psychedelic shapes and hues ruled the roost. Reinterpreting iconic works of celebrated artists, Verve presents to you their world of technicolour...

Veeranganakumari Solanki, an independent curator and art writer, has stirred up the field with new talent. With innovations in the pipeline, her role as a successful emerging curator can be credited to her global outlook and understanding of local flavours

From cookies and candies to crudités – you can turn the look of your dining table around by glamming it up with artisanal and edible centrepieces. Sonal Ved speaks to three bakers who are creating these with much élan

Three artists talk to Neha Gupta about their sanctified places of innovative creations where they can allow their imaginations to adopt any form of expression

This month, Parmesh Shahani encounters different individuals across India, all of whom are involved in documenting our ever-changing daily lives

She loves and breathes New York City. For Verve, Mamta Badkar takes a weekend off to train her lens on her favourite art hangout – the Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) and its environs

Is great art often discarded as kitsch? Can kitsch overtake art or is true art non-submissive to popular culture and commercialisation? Sitanshi Talati-Parikh discovers that today, one can’t be too far from the other