Archives: '15 Issue 12

Plastic surgery, K-pop, anime and 5G Internet are buzzwords that have transformed the ancient capital of South Korea. Verve explores the most ‘wired’ city in the world

Moving away from strict grammatical rules in a post-modern world, people are speaking in numerous tongues and urban dictionaries are embracing the lingo of the youth

Stately British architecture reflected in the facades of the tallest skyscrapers alongside carts selling stinky tofu at the doorstep of adorable French cafes.... The West is ingrained in the DNA of this Chinese city

We trace India’s (and our own) love-hate relationship with the food world’s most taboo word

The Indian-American chef on The Bombay Canteen and his grandmother's recipes

Do we choose to leave tradition behind or bring it along with us as we embrace a thrilling future?

From wood and bronze to tobacco, ceramic. feathers and even fossils, it seems like almost anything is usable in the world of watchmaking today

The most populous city in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) rose like a vision out of arid desert and will soon boast a Bollywood park, Legoland and other urban wonders

Award-winning author Amish states that globalisation in the modern world has significantly increased the blending of cultures in a positive way

An exhilarating place where art, history and deep-rooted ethnology fuse impeccably with metropolitan pizzazz, Turkey’s cultural epicentre is where one goes to traverse the globe