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'Magic is much like love, a beautiful moment of suspension from reality': Drummond Money-Coutts

"Being a magician is very much like being a musician. Nobody is born able to play the chords and scales of any instrument, but they are born with the passion that will carry them through many years of commitment required to learn them," says DMC.

What's 'love bombing'? How do you know when you're getting 'love bombed' in a relationship? Here are the answers

"With love bombing, the constant attention, flattery, seduction, gifts make it hard to process that you’re overwhelmed. And when you’re overwhelmed, you don’t see danger.”

#instawedding takes over Kerala: How traditionally quieter South Indian wedding ceremonies are now chasing colour and dance

“When they see something on social media, they say my wedding should be like this, too. Everybody wants to become a film star," says Mayjohn PJ, owner of a leading wedding management agency on the new South Indian wedding.

The Parthenon Quest: Greece gets marble foot in door of British Museum

Greece hopes the 2,500-year-old marble fragment, which arrived on loan from an Italian museum, may lead to the reunification in Athens of all surviving Parthenon Sculptures — many of which are in the British Museum.

Book review | Remo Fernandes bares it all, from confessions on adultery to being blamed for death of fellow band members

There are some things Remo Fernandes is embarrassed about but he wants to acknowledge in his memoir they did happen. The sexual repression that resulted from his Catholic upbringing is a big theme in this book.

As Indian couples increasingly choose to go childfree, premarital counselling must be extended to their families

“We feel better communally, and that insight over time is getting lost with individual counselling. As per Western standards, healing is considered to be this isolated thing you do, and you do it yourself but we’re not culturally brought up that way."

Novak Djokovic is more a victim of the brand he couldn't become than the flawed human being he obviously is

Tennis Australia and Novak Djokovic have not been each other’s best friends of late, but this public persecution of Tennis’ biggest star is more bureaucratic hubris than the enlightened response it wants to dress up as.

Jaipur Literature Festival rescheduled from January to March due to surge in COVID cases

"We remain committed to bring the Festival back to Jaipur as an on-ground," organisers said in a statement.

In her new book Watershed, climate expert Mridula Ramesh stresses on urgent need of water management in India

"While conscience is good for spurring a change, it is less effective in sustaining a change. That’s why we need good economics and design to come in to sustain the action we want to see," says Mridula Ramesh.

Living Art | How COVID-19 lockdown, contrary to popular belief, has led to a boom in art market, thanks to online auctions

“During the lockdown, disposable incomes of the high-end groups and businessmen had grown because they weren’t travelling, partying or attending weddings. Speculators disappeared, and serious collectors gained ground," says Dinesh Vazirani, CEO, Saffronart.

Book review: With Raj Kapoor: The Master at Work, filmmaker Rahul Rawail presents an intimate account of his guru

With his biography on Raj Kapoor, Rahul Rawail is not looking to ruffle feathers or provide cheap thrills. He is clearly in awe of the person that he is writing about, and this subjectivity is central to the book.

Book review | With Unbound, #MeToo founder Tarana Burke explains why she felt the need to reclaim the movement

"If these white women start using this hashtag, and it gets popular, they will never believe that a Black woman in her 40s from the Bronx has been building a movement for the same purposes, using those exact words, for years now."

What is India’s educational heritage? A review of Sahana Singh’s new book

Long before the first European universities appeared, India already had multidisciplinary centres of learning that fuelled a knowledge revolution around the world. So, why this mess now?

Book Review | 'Shuttler’s Flick: Making Every Match Count' offers peek into mind of Pullela Gopichand

The book would appeal to various kinds of people – those who enjoy reading about sports, those who like books on leadership, those who are curious about the lives of famous personalities, and those who thrive on self-help.

Wayne Thiebaud, painter of lush colours and textures, dies at 101

Thiebaud had started out as an animator for Walt Disney and later worked as a poster designer and commercial artist in California and New York before becoming a painter

'He-Man' artist and toy designer T Mark Taylor dies at 80 of congestive heart failure

He-man was the muscled frontman for toy manufacturer Mattel's Masters of the Universe franchise, which later spawned a popular animated series

Joan Didion, American journalist and author, dies at age 87

She established a distinctive voice in American fiction before turning to political reporting and screenplay writing. But it was California, her native state, that provided her with her richest material.

Why blame Katrina Kaif? Women have been sponsoring weddings for ages

Soon after wedding of Katrina Kaif and Vicky Kaushal, the Internet went on fire with aspersions on how the actress footed the whopping wedding expenses

Tracing the unabating universal influence of Rumi, and his connection to Indian Vedantic thought

"Rumi's poetry for me is like an extension of the Indian ethos."

What’s in your glass — Whisky or Whiskey?

The right way to understand the difference between whisky and whiskey lies in its history and how one makes the spirit.

As Bloody Mary turns 100, here's how this Paris bar where it was invented is celebrating it

The bar is carefully checking COVID-19 health passes as visitors from Australia, Egypt, and beyond gather to sample the famed drink at Harry’s, whose patrons over the past century have included writers Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Meet Saisha Shinde, the transwoman who designed Harnaaz Sandhu's Miss Universe gown

“We did it,” Saisha Shinde wrote in an Instagram post soon after the news of the big win made headlines.

An Actor's Actor book review: Sanjeev Kumar's authorised biography is a peek into both his stardom and craft

All 22 chapters of this book are bursting with anecdotes from Sanjeev Kumar's professional life. However, there is a chapter on his landmark films that also discusses his most fruitful collaboration with filmmaker Gulzar.

Rijula Das' debut novel A Death in Shonagachhi is a peek into South Asia's largest red-light district under the garb of romance-mystery

There is a crime, and there are clues, but the writing is not geared towards leading you to the culprit; there is a lot more going on in this novel

Why arm-twisting Better.com CEO Vishal Garg for firing 900 employees on Zoom is misinterpreting modern capitalism

Backlash against Vishal Garg is indicative of how we misinterpret capitalism when employee rebellion is considered an avante garde act of artistic mutiny, whereas tacit survival instincts displayed by the captain of the ship are almost always framed as evil.

Living Art | Tracing Jamini Roy's evolution as a painter, from Western styles to indigenous forms

Abanindranath Tagore’s idea of Indianisation of art and Rabindranath Tagore’s essay The Hermitage inspired Jamini Roy into nationalism and searching for his roots.

Goa Banyan Project: Environmental engineer Sanober Durrani's attempt to protect the trees through social capital and Instagram

The Goa Banyan Project places great attribution to Ostrom’s theory which utilises the idea of social capital, the latter referring to the idea of a set of shared values that allows individuals to work together in a group to effectively achieve a common purpose within the natural resources governance field.

Book Review | 'Believe: What Life and Cricket Taught Me' offers glimpse into Suresh Raina's life

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