Fashion & Beauty

Ashish Gupta

Asish Gupta, 29, was the darling of London's Fashion Week two weeks ago when he unveiled a colorful, daring, and surprisingly confident Spring collection. Gupta, who has homes in Toronto, New Dehli and New York, was born in India and then went to study fashion at Central St.Martins in UK.


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Art & Culture

Dancer Akram Khan

Akram Khan is the new dance phenomenon to hit the world stage. According to the New York Times, Khan is "one of the most talked about young dance makers on the international scene". The Financial Times reviewer rhapsodizes "Not since Mark Morris have I seen any dancer-choreographer so able, so accomplished."

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Reviews & Previews

Japanese Monologues

Before Salman Rushdie, Jhumpa Lahiri and Mohsin Hamid captured the imagination of the West, Japanese novelists had made a striking and lasting impression on the modern reader. In fact, Japan even boasts two Nobel Prizes in Literature awarded to Yasunari Kawabata (1899 - 1972) and Oe Kenzaburo (1935 - ).

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Art & Culture

Elfriede Jelinek

Austrian novelist and playwright, Elfriede Jelinek, wins the Nobel Prize in literature and becomes the first woman in eight years to be given the award. Elfriede Jelenik was born in a small town in Austria in 1946. Her mother was from a prosperous Vienna family and Elfriede grew up in that city. She was especially inclined towards music.

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Architecture & Design

Citroen DS

They really are bad shots", Charles de Gaulle dryly commented as he stepped out of his bullet ridden car, the presidential Citroen DS. The French President had just survived an assassination attempt when his car sped through incessant machine gun fire and continued speeding despite having only three working tires.

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