2nd Edition of L’Oréal Professional Indian Hairdressing Awards 2016-17

The  French hair care and cosmetics brand L’Oréal Professional has successfully conducted the second edition of Indian Hairdressing Awards, where top talent from across the country competed in a creative category of their choice: Colour Trophy, Cut & Style, Young Colourist and Men’s Image.With this all India competition...

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Premium lighting brand Tisva opens flagship studio

The busy Mehrauli-Gurgaon road has added a new address in the premium home decorative lighting segment, with the opening of Tisva Studio. The brand is the new enterprise from Usha International Limited, for which they have associated with Gauri Khan...

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Dining, Brunches, Desserts, Getaways for Christmas Weekend

It’s the festive season again, and Christmas celebrations are all about going out for grand dinners, brunches, wine, music, dance and food, food, food. We have a few options here that are all highly recommended. Make your pick

Q’la – Christmas Eve Dinner and Christmas Brunch
This is the ultimate party zone which promises great pan European cuisine, has an excellent bar and a live band.

Saturday, 24th December 2016Pre Christmas PromA Christmas Smorgasbord ( Anti-Pasti, Cheese, breads etc.), Christmas Special Cocktails, sing and dance with live band Afterglow and live Mulled wine station...

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Festive season Gift Guide

It’s the festive season, and we have another good reason to light up the faces of our dear one’s with gifts. So here are some great ideas.

Good Earth – A special range of candles from their annual design collection- Shambala, and an ornate set of exclusive Christmas decorations to add some holiday cheer. The scented Shambala glass candles are hand decorated with artwork decals & motifs in gold & silver. The artistic range of decorative ornaments are made of silver-plated copper wires, hand-worked and soldered to form decorative filigrees inspired by Tarakashi filigree jewelry craft from Odisha...

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Sunday Brunch at Q’la

The one day that is the toughest to navigate through is Sunday, where the ruling emotion ‘Lazy’ gets into conflict with the latent need to ‘Let’s do something’.One cherished activity is the brunch – with all the magical ingredients of food and booze in the middle of the day...

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India – Worldmark at Aerocity hosts stand-up comedian in Food Capital to packed house

Worldmark at Aerocity shows all the promise of becoming the latest happening destination for a family outing. On Friday, 11th December, this new high street retail and leisure destination hosted the popular stand-up comedian Amit Tandon and Gaurav Gupta...

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Harry Potter’s final book hand written, illustrated by J.K.Rowling at Sotheby’s auction

Just two decades old, and already Harry Potter’s memorabilia is sought after by collectors. Up for auction at Sotheby’s London on 13 December 2016 is a rare presentation copy of The Tales of Beedle the Bard, created, hand-written and illustrated by JK Rowling, containing a personal inscription by the author to the editor who launched her career...

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Diplomatic Nite 2016 hosted at The Metropolitan Hotel by Diplomatist Magazine

The Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Diplomatist magazine, a publication for the large global diplomatic community in Delhi, hosted Diplomatic Nite 2016 on November 17, 2016 at The Metropolitan Hotel & Spa, New Delhi, to celebrate 20 years of its publishing journey...

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Heart of a Samosa – The Masala Library

A gustatory experience involving the visual and the olfactory senses, where each course is akin to an art installation – is how I might describe my lunch outing at the Masala Library by Jiggs Kalra, on Janpath...

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Underneath the Moonlit sky

The Luxury Chronicle connected with Luca Franco, one of the partners at Luxury Frontiers. In an exclusive one-on-one with us, he explained all about what they do. More than words, it is the pictures that speak about the dream projects that Luxury Frontiers has executed...

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The Silver Chair

Such expensive and high end furniture obviously falls in the exclusive category, “But sometimes we do get mass production orders as it is mainly for 5-star Hotels. The quantity depends on the requirement of the hotels, like for a conference room at least 100 chairs per design are made...

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Lakshmi Narayan’s Bonsai Kitten

For a first time novelist, Lakshmi Narayan has packed a telling piece with her literary work Bonsai Kitten, which dissects that honourable institution of marriage and all that is not honourable in it and some more. The writer has woven into the story line the anthropological study of the social fabric of Singapore, a country with expats from every region of the world. That she lived here for a considerable time enables her to use the local slang, dialectical nuances and references to locales with authenticity...

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What does Mireille-J. Guézennec know about Varanasi

Mireille has been a regular visitor to India for the past three decades, travelling across its length and breadth in her capacity as an international reporter and photographer. It helped that she has a special degree in Indian philosophy and Sanskrit, and is a professor of philosophy in France...

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