Wednesday, 14 December 2016

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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Thursday, 1 December 2016

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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