Category: India, Records

** Substance with style: Bengaluru-based retail store offering shoppers deep dive into history of fashion

Western designers customising apparels for Indian princes; legendary actor Rajesh Khanna’s guru collar and kurta shirts; the wide range of shawls from Kerman (Iran) to Kashmir.

A reading room set-up at Ffolio, a hi-fashion retail store in the city, is offering its shoppers a deep dive into the history of fashion.

Curated by Ffolio in collaboration with Papertrail, a pop-up photobook library and reading room, the store is now displaying a series of photobooks on fashion and art that give a sneak-peek into how fashion has evolved over the years – from the fields of feudal rule to Bollywood and the changes in styles brought about during the pandemic.

According to Yashodhara Shroff, founder of Ffolio, these photobooks are a pictorial representation of fashion dating back to centuries.

** Taking note: Bengaluru student pens book on stories of Indian women from 12 states

What are the influential factors that restrict women’s financial independence?”

This key question led Nikita, a Class 12 student from Canadian International School, to pen a book, ‘Blooming: Unfiltered Stories of Indian Women’s Struggles with Financial Independence’, a non-fiction work highlighting women’s struggles to attain financial independence.

** How a DH employee was at the centre of history’s most famous Test match

Vikrama Raju

His recollections of the game, until the fateful final day, centred around Dean Jones’ vomit-and-bat epic 210 (“he went to hospital after the first day”), Sunil Gavaskar playing his hundredth successive Test, Krishnamachari Srikkanth’s rapid half-century, and Kapil Dev’s hundred, which still left India trailing by 177 on first innnings. And it was hot, really hot.

** Covid warrior from Bengaluru scales Mt Elbrus in Russia

 If you think that Covid-19 warriors are only health care professionals, think again. There were many who quit their jobs to become dedicated Covid-19 warriors.

Now, as the travel restrictions have eased, they’re all set to pursue their dreams.

One such person is 34-year-old Naveen Mallesh, the founder of TrekNomads, a Bengaluru-based startup .

** NIF announces longlist of Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay Book Prize

Among the books selected are “Muscular India: Masculinity, Mobility & the New Middle Class” (Michiel Baas); “The Death Script: Dreams and Delusions in Naxal Country” (Ashutosh Bhardwaj); “India’s First Dictatorship: The Emergency, 1975-77” (Christophe Jaffrelot & Pratinav Anil); “Brand New Nation: Capitalist Dreams and Nationalist Designs in Twenty-First-Century India” (Ravinder Kaur); and “India’s Founding Moment: The Constitution of a Most Surprising Democracy” (Madhav Khosla).

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** Biocon-Serum alliance to build biotech powerhouse

Two leading biotech players — Bengaluru-based Biocon Biologics Limited and Pune-based Serum Institute Life Sciences Private Ltd  — have come together in a strategic alliance in a bid to increase vaccines and antibody therapeutics access for developing countries, for infectious diseases, including Covid-19, dengue and HIV.

** Kannadigaru Dubai starts ‘Gulf Gaana Kogile’ children’s singing competition

Kannadigaru Dubai, an association for Kannadigas in Dubai have started ‘Gulf Gaana Kogile’, a singing competition for Gulf Kannadiga children in association with all Karnataka Associations in the Gulf under the banner ‘Sangeetha Saurabha 2021’.