Archives: '19 Issue 04

Master auteur Satyajit Ray is remembered as a director, music composer, translator and writer. His artistic identity, however, is relatively lesser-known outside of Bengal, where his illustrations and design work have left a lasting impression. His futuristic aesthetic and disruptive style add a most nuanced layer of narrative to his rich corpus that continues to remain relevant across age groups and cultures even more than half a century later

Verve photographer Joshua Navalkar captures the best looks spotted off the runway

The third edition of Kitab - a photobook festival showcases photobooks from 27 countries. Shahrzad Darafsheh reveals what was going on in her mind while capturing her journey in the book Half-Light.

From a new Spanish restaurant to a play based on Khaled Hosseini's bestseller, Verve gives you the lowdown on the events that should be on your radar this weekend

Delhi-based poet Shalim M. Hussain's Miyah poetry provides the metaphorical loudspeaker to the long-ignored voices of the Bengali-Muslim migrants living in the riverine plains of the Brahmaputra by documenting their stories of love, loss, celebration and injustice

The Berlin Wall, a prominent symbol of the Cold War, had divided a country, and city, for decades. After the wall fell in 1989, the German capital was left to reconcile two contrasting aesthetic and ideological identities.

As hems are stitched, hair is sprayed and rehearsals begin, model Anugraha Natarajan of Feat. Artists takes us behind the scenes on an 18-hour day at fashion week.

From a bi-monthly design gathering that will focus on climate change to a collaboration which takes you back to liquor from the Prohibition era, Verve gives you the lowdown on the events that should be on your radar this weekend

From the show format to the question about unsold garments Team Verve asks designers from Day 2 of the Lakmé Fashion Week line-up to share their thoughts on the vision and values of running a sustainable label in the current fashion landscape.

Biskit and Six5Six Street, which make their debut at Lakmé Fashion Week today, are both fashioned after the premise of a post-apocalyptic planet where we are excessively dependent on technology