Fashion & Beauty

Sheena Sippy

Sheena Sippy's photographs have captured fashion supermodels, Bollywood stars and memorable ad campaigns over the past decade. The daughter of filmmaker Ramesh Sippy, Sheena has also tried cinematography in films such as Taal. Her latest portfolio includes a beautiful array of photographs of children.

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Architecture & Design

Ali Tayar

Turkish born architect Ali Tayar's designs have been featured in New York's Museum of Modern Art, the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, and the Denver Art Museum. He is an architect and furniture designer, and founder of Parallel Design Partnership. His recent work includes the interior of the New York restaurant Pop.

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Inner Sanctum

Guilty Pleasures

From the time of Hippocrates up to the 20th century, doctors believed that hysteria expressed the womb's revolt against sexual deprivation. Genital massage was a standard treatment for hysteria; its objective was to induce "hysterical paroxysm" (better known as orgasm) in the patient.

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Reviews & Previews

Khamosh Pani

Sabiha Sumar's critically acclaimed Khamosh Pani (2003), harks back to a time and era when the promise of a bold new direction in alternative Pakistani cinema was taking route. Sumar's film deals with the very foundation of fundamentalism in our society but it accomplishes its thesis in a delicate and heartbreaking manner.

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Art & Culture

INTENT

Director Shekhar Kapur announced his alliance with holistic mogul Deepak Chopra in launching a multimedia company, INTENT, aimed at spearheading the entertainment industry explosion in Asia. Believers in the economic strength of the middle class in the East, they feel the Asian consumer will soon have cultural muscle .

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