THE TRUTH ABOUT: Mandvi | History Defined

What Gujarati Bandhani Fabric Tells You About Craft, Regional Pride, and the Art of Resist Dyeing

The binding comes before the colourBefore a single drop of dye touches Gujarati bandhani fabric, someone has spent hours pinching the cloth into tiny peaks and winding thread around each one. Thousands of them, sometimes, on a single dupatta. The thread is the point. It holds the cloth shut against…

Times Life · Aug 21

5 Indian Cities Where Food Alone Is Worth the Travel: Eating Your Way Across India

Kolkata: The City That Feeds You Before You AskKolkata does not wait for you to find food. It finds you. Step off a train at Howrah and within three minutes someone is selling you a kathi roll so good that the Nizam's restaurant on Park Street, which invented it, still…

Times Life · Jul 6

Use drones for surveillance to curb sand mining at Julie Island: Bombay HC

MUMBAI: Observing that steps taken so far cannot be said to be satisfactory in tackling the serious issue of illegal sand mining near Mumbai, the Bombay high court directed police to bring in drones for surveillance, set up watchtowers near two railway bridges at Mandvi and Saphale, set time-lines and…

The Times of India · Nov 7, 2023