Romal Laisram

Moses Koul has the kind of face that tends to linger. There is something almost old-school movie-star about him — the arresting features, the languid ease, the fashion that looks instinctive rather than styled and, most dangerously, that voice: deep, warm and unhurried, with the sort of grain that makes even an ordinary sentence sound faintly seductive. It is perhaps no surprise that when he arrived on screen in

Silk has a memory. It remembers the hands that wove it, the rituals it has witnessed and the generations that have wrapped themselves in its lustre. But in the hands of Bengaluru designer Renuka Anandan, it also has a future. With Pattu Kadhai, Renuka is taking the grandeur of South Indian handloom and giving it a sharper, more sculptural silhouette — one where temple architecture meets couture, heritage meets modern tailoring and tradition feels anything but static. Her latest presentation, unveiled at an exclusive runway showcase at Sabha, Bengaluru, brought this vision into focus through two distinct edits:

Forty editions in, model hunt by Prasad Bidapa has become something far more enduring than a conventional beauty contest. It is a rite of passage, a training ground and, for generations of young hopefuls, a first glimpse of what a life in fashion might look like. Over four decades, the hunt has produced faces that would become fixtures of Indian popular culture — Deepika Padukone, Anushka Sharma, Jacqueline Fernandez, John Abraham and Arjun Rampal among them. Yet Prasad has never been particularly interested in creating pretty faces for the sake of a runway photograph.

Before Bengaluru's fashion scene learnt to speak in the language of spectacle, Deepika Govind was already making clothes with a quieter kind of allure — clothes that let the textile do the talking, the silhouette breathe and craftsmanship take centre stage. Now, after nearly a decade away, one of the city's most beloved designers returns with

Telugu indie pop has long existed in the shadow of Tollywood's enormous musical universe, with relatively few independent voices breaking through to a wider audience. Singer-songwriter Ananya is determined to change that. Her latest single,

Banarasiya begins where inheritance meets instinct. Born from a three-generation family deeply rooted in the banarasi textile trade, the label was founded in 2020 by Nilesh Agarwal with an unfussy ambition: to make the extraordinary world of banarasi more accessible, without diluting its soul. Today, with co-founder Radhika Agarwal shaping its creative voice, the brand brings the romance of the loom into a contemporary wardrobe. For Radhika, the connection is intimate. Childhood journeys to Varanasi, spent sourcing saris with her family, meant watching her mother and grandmother treat their

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There is a certain magic to a voice that can slip effortlessly between worlds, carrying the intimacy of a whisper one moment and the sweep of a cinematic melody the next. Singer Shashaa Tirupati has made a career of just such musical shape-shifting, moving fluidly between languages, genres and moods while carving out a distinctive space in Indian music. From her memorable playback performances such as