Multi-designer shoe boutique Rapport and SoleSearch, a street culture brand, joined hands to open a collaborative store in Hyderabad that sneaker aficionados would love. ‘Serious drip’ is how as the Gen Z sneakerheads would put it. SoleSearch is an online marketplace for limited edition and high-demand sneakers among other things which connects buyers with sellers…
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Jaypore, one of India’s leading destination brands for craft and artisanal products, has finally come to Hyderabad. Established in 2011, Jaypore was acquired by Aditya Birla Fashion & Retail Ltd, in 2019. Jaypore has been a popular online brand that opened its first store in Delhi in 2017. Their retail journey has finally reached Jubilee…
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Monsoon weddings are here and we got three top couturiers to tell us the weaves, drapes, hues and styles you should sport to up your #OOTD game. Read on! Sourav Das, designer and sari revivalist For the women, I would suggest a double veil look where you combine two veils –one over the body and…
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Nawabi nights just got shaken and stirred. Or rather got a shot in the arm. It’s all about sushi and whisky sour nights now. Riding on that trend is The Next Round Bar & Kitchen in Nallagandla, the western part of the city that is being hailed as the new commune of Hyderabad. This watering…
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The nightclub you would go to on a weekend: Zero40, Broadway and Tabula Rasa Your kind of place for good music: Tabula for techno and Broadway for retro Goan bands that perform the works of artists like Bryan Adams Your favorite drink: Long Island Iced Tea and Japanese whisky Friends you party with: With my…
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A group of young people is sprawled across the verdant greens of KBR Park, spread comfortably over blankets and pillows, immersed in a book. While curious onlookers take a peek, this community of readers (who go by the name Hyderabad Reads) are immersed in their own world. Every Saturday from 4.30 pm to 6.30 pm,…
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Every Sunday morning, at a co-working space in Ameerpet, enthusiastic couples are busy getting intimate and romantic while mastering the art of tango. “It’s a tango dance session in progress,” says Prasad BSN, the man behind these tango dance camps in the city. Tango is an Argentinian social dance that is known to help people…
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“Pull it in,” yells Belinda Aguayo in her Mexican accent as she makes the 30 participants in the yoga studio in Jubilee Hills resort to dynamic breathing – rapid inhalation and exhalation through the mouth. Before they get comfortable with their inhalation, she reminds them to ‘let go, leave it, blow it away, throw it…
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Images of layouts of a colony, at one time ubiquitous in the city (an era before Google Maps) greet us at an exhibition by city-based photographer and artist, Kishor Krishnamoorthi. The exhibition titled Urban is divided into four mini-series; the 40-plus images showcase the little visual details in our urban city life that we often…
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Six years ago, Sarath Babu, a thirdgeneration entrepreneur from Hyderabad chanced upon a 700-year-old log of teakwood in Myanmar. Being in the teak business for nearly four decades, he had an eye for the best logs which are usually repurposed for mega yachts sold to the super-rich of the West. “I saw a single piece…
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