Eating together is the pivotal activity around which Imphal-born Daksha Salam’s elaborate gatherings operate. As he prepares to host an exclusive luncheon for Verve, he talks about his early influences and how he’s demystifying North-Eastern cuisine The post “For me, food is a medium for creating life bonds in a personal space”: Daksha Salam first appeared on Verve Magazine ..read more

Eating together is the pivotal activity around which Imphal-born Daksha Salam’s elaborate gatherings operate. As he prepares to host an exclusive luncheon for Verve, he talks about his early influences and how he’s demystifying North-Eastern cuisine The post “For me, food is a medium for creating life bonds in a personal space”: Daksha Salam first appeared on Verve Magazine ..read more

Eating together is the pivotal activity around which Imphal-born Daksha Salam’s elaborate gatherings operate. As he prepares to host an exclusive luncheon for Verve, he talks about his early influences and how he’s demystifying North-Eastern cuisine The post “For me, food is a medium for creating life bonds in a personal space”: Daksha Salam first appeared on Verve Magazine ..read more

Chaitsi Ahuja, founder and CEO of Brown Living, an online marketplace for sustainable products, ensures that her bucket list does not hurt the environment The post Green Journeys first appeared on Verve Magazine ..read more

A contentious negotiation with the material he uses is at the centre of artist Asim Waqif’s oeuvre. Best known for his work with bamboo, the artist also creates aesthetic sculptural forms from waste. Verve interacts with the recipient of the first Asia Arts Pathbreaker Award 2024 at his studio in New Delhi The post “Decay is a form of preservation”: Asim Waqif first appeared on Verve Magazine ..read more

Personal memories are delicately woven into Himalayan wool in Memento, the recently launched collection of seven hand-knotted rugs produced by the North American design studio Yabu Pushelberg, with the Italian rug-makers cc-tapis. Verve finds out more about the nuances of their collaborative process that celebrates craft and innovation The post Knotting The Past With The Future first appeared on Verve Magazine ..read more

In 'Unstruck Melody', the British-born, Toronto-based artist’s latest exhibition for the London Design Festival 2023 at the Victoria & Albert Museum, he presents mindful tools to reinvent our approach to living. Verve takes a walk through the interdisciplinary showcase The post “This exhibition is centred around the resilience of memory recall, the potentials of sound and the active participation of listening”: Nirbhai (Nep) Singh Sidhu first appeared on Verve Magazine ..read more

The Kochi-based comic book publishing house serendipitously found itself stepping into the Indian film industry about a decade ago — thanks to and partly due to their intent to fund their first love. Verve speaks to founders Tina and Pratheek Thomas to trace the changing face of title sequences with the advent of OTT and their ascendence within the worlds of credits and comic books The post Jumping Off The Page With Studio Kokaachi — From Comics To Credit Sequences first appeared on Verve Magazine ..read more

These Mumbai-based food entrepreneurs, who left their promising careers in fine dining to start their own enterprises, in interviews with Verve, talk about the process of — and challenges in — breaking free of the unsavoury practices that the restaurant industry is notorious for, while bringing the sensibilities of gourmet cooking into the delivery-only model The post Cloud Kitchens: Anushka Malkani and Nariman Abdygapparov, Masa Bakery first appeared on Verve Magazine ..read more

These Mumbai-based food entrepreneurs, who left their promising careers in fine dining to start their own enterprises, in interviews with Verve, talk about the process of — and challenges in — breaking free of the unsavoury practices that the restaurant industry is notorious for, while bringing the sensibilities of gourmet cooking into the delivery-only model The post Cloud Kitchens: Divesh Aswani, Commis Station first appeared on Verve Magazine ..read more