Two young graduates from the National Institute of Fashion and Technology (NIFT) — Supreet Raju and Jasleen Kaur — were doing okay in their job, working on exhibition design projects for corporates and private clients. But they were not too satisfied with it, nor with the way things were shaping up for design students. Many of their contemporaries, who started their own labels or wanted to start something of their own, were not getting the right platform to showcase their products.

A car trip from London to Delhi that covered 15 countries and required planning for more than one-and-a-half years; another trip in a Nano from Delhi to Ladakh; and the most recent one, a trans-Himalayan trip from Ladakh to Arunachal Pradesh — all this and more have been the achievements of Tushar Agarwal and Sanjay Madan.

With Delhi University Student’s Union (DUSU) poll just a week away, most colleges should have been buzzing with election campaigns. But the ban on all rallies in the Delhi University campus, and the campaign budget ceiling of `5,000 has left the contesting candidates with limited choices.

It was a tribute to the man who gave Indian theatre a new meaning. Author Anjum Katyal made special efforts to release her new book Habib Tanvir: Towards an Inclusive Theatre on the occasion of Tanvir’s 89th birth anniversary.

After spending years in the walled city of Delhi amid the hustle-bustle of city life, when the Ahmed family planned to move to a new house, their main priority was a serene location. A house in Gurgaon gave them just that. While it was well connected to the life of a metro, it also provided the required tranquility.

Usually, the opening of an exhibition is the end of it. Once the art works are displayed, there’s no other addition to the exhibition in the coming days. But Sarai Reader 09: The Exhibition — a collaboration between Devi Art Foundation, Gurgaon and Sarai-CSDS, Delhi and curated by Raqs Media Collective that opened in the capital recently — is changing the way to look at art.

After winning accolades and a National Award for his performance in I Am Kalam, child actor Harsh Mayar is ready to show his second stint as an actor. The 14-year-old was in the capital recently to promote the film Jalpari: The Desert Mermaid, in which he has a grey character.

As a young boy, Franz Harary wanted to become a musician and work on Broadway. But a magic kit as a gift on his 13th birthday changed a few things for him. While he remained interested in music — he even became a stage designer for music shows — he also developed a fascination towards creating illusions. Now a famous illusionist, Franz started set designing with Michael Jackson almost 30 years ago, before realising that his real interest lies in creating magic illusions.

It doesn’t really matter which era you live in when it comes to admiring Shakespeare. The bard’s work, this time a Hindi translation of the Twelfth Night — Piya Behrupiya — has again become very popular among the theatre lovers. Atul Kumar of The Company Theatre, Mumbai has directed the play that is being staged in the capital.

She is known as one of the best impersonators of the famous singer Madonna. Melissa Totten, who is in India for a seven-city tour as a part of the ongoing Black Dog Madonna forever tour, says that she loves the attention that she gets as a Madonna look-alike.