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..., capital of the 14th to 16th-century Hindu kingdom of Vijayanagara, have long been a reason to visit the south-west Indian state of Karnataka....
...As Wachowiak et al correctly note, the recent pressures militating in favour of greater cooperation (Ukraine, a second Trump presidency, fiscal constraints), “have not, to date, proven sufficient to overcome...
...Woman, Life, Freedom by Marjane Satrapi et al (Seven Stories Press) The much-feted author of the graphic novel Persepolis leads a collection of vivid, “visually stunning” accounts of the current unrest gripping...
...The Howard Hodgkin Indian Collection will be displayed at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2024....
...[LAUGHTER] Bombay is not an ancient Indian city. Bombay is a city that the British built in India....
...farm in the Taunus mountains just north of the city....
...One of my good friends (and keen golfer), Pushkar Marathe, owns an Indian-inspired restaurant in Palm Beach Gardens that I can’t recommend enough. He’s an incredible chef....
...The Seychelles may share Zanzibar’s Indian Ocean waters, but we found little there of the textured history, or the intriguing recessiveness, of Stone Town....
...It comes iced, nitro (cold brew made with nitrogen gas for an ultra-smooth texture) or hot, with all of the usual suspects represented: macchiato, cappuccino, cortadito et al....
...Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen bought a $17m property — including a “teardown” — on Indian Creek last year. There’s no point trying to do a drive-through here: it’s all private and gated....
...At the farthest end of the beach at Aberdaron we swam over peacock reefs of tiny stones, the dowry of the sea....
...We had to stop for peccaries en route to the beach....
...It’s the brand played by my idol Tina Weymouth of Talking Heads and the Tom Tom Club. My husband gave it to me, and he’s asked Tina to sign it once the pandemic is over....
...[Instead] the Arabic root ‘qamr’ generates words mostly relating to the moon and to gambling: though qamar means ‘snow-blindness’, qamar al-din is a kind of jelly made with apricots, qumri is a kind of turtle...
...Tom Robbins Discovery: Photos of Nuuk, the capital of Greenland, almost always show the pretty, brightly painted houses of the old harbour and the wooden cathedral beside them....
...After breakfast, I drove into the old city of Srinagar....
...Edwin Heathcote is the FT’s architecture and design critic Photographs: Richard Davis/De Havilland Aircraft Museum; V&A; Estate of Bertrand Goldberg; Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace’; HB-13583-H, Chicago...
...My style icon is Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned, wife of the former Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani....
...Woman At Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi, a radical Egyptian feminist provocateur; Sarah Bakewell’s At the Existentialist Café, on Sartre, Camus, Simone de Beauvoir et al....
...I was in the city for the first time to write about the strange sport of tower-running....
...What it describes is the state of the (male) city worker who is left behind while his wife and children spend August at the beach....
...Among the cowboys, there were Indians too. Once, we went to visit them out in their caverns....
...While the black taffeta evening gowns and sturdy looking peacoats on Karlie Kloss et al shouted winter, the models’ peachy complexions were all spring – try Bobbi Brown’s Sheer Color Cheek Tint in Sheer...
...Hot holidays: Cycling The Classic Those inspired by the exploits of Wiggins, Froome et al, can take on some of the most celebrated mountain passes of the Tour de France on a week-long trip through the...
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
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