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THE VISUAL
PRANKSTER “I believe that in design, 30 per cent dignity, 20 per cent beauty and 50 per cent absurdity are necessary,” he once told the Japanese design magazine Idea. Graphic wit was part of Fukuda’s upbringing. Born in 1932 in Tokyo to a family of toy manufacturers, he enjoyed making origami as child....Click here to read more |
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EASTERN PROMISES For those not familiar with the Mayfair area of London, here’s a quick introduction – it is the most expensive property on the British Monopoly game board. If that doesn’t give you an idea about its real life status, let me add that Mayfair has played host to residents like Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Clive, Dwight D Eisenhower, Somerset Maugham and Jimi Hendrix. Today, apart from the Royal Academy of Arts and the Grosvenor House Hotel lining its roads, Mayfair boasts of residential properties, exclusive shops and London’s largest concentration of luxury hotels and restaurants. In short, it’s a realtor’s dream and a house hunter’s paradise. It therefore comes as no surprise that when Faiza and Pallak Seth found their dream house on Mayfair’s Green Street, they felt they must have done something right in their lives...Click here to read more |
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MADCAP HARDBACK This red-bricked bibliophile haven, nestled deep amidst the humdrum of Kotla Mubarakpur, is a treasure waiting to be discovered. It is here, at the bookstore’s foyer, that Rudyard Kipling and Harley Davidson fnd an unusual meeting point. A poster of the poem If and a picture collage of bikes hang at the entrance... Click here to read more |
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GLASS APART Many Faces |
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CROWNING GREENERY Years of reading geography in school and reciting the spelling of Environmental Degradation didn’t do much for our collective consciousness. Every year we were taught techniques to conserve rain water and not waste electricity. But that didn’t make much of an impact until now, when we actually see each year getting hotter than the last, rain becoming thinner than earlier and Mother Earth fnally out for revenge like never before. So, everyone set out to do their own little bit and since, by now, you too must be eager to have a share in the pie, here is how you can do something for the environment and become the coolest cat around town, literally. Get a green roof! Demystifying the Green
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