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Heard of phillumeny? Meet India’s matchbox collectors

The hobby of collecting matchboxes is called phillumeny, and is not half as popular as stamp and coin collecting. Three collectors tell us why it should be!

What it takes to own a vintage car: a view from the driver’s seat

Watching a vintage car roll by the street or the screen is one thing, but owning one is an adventure in itself. What does it take to hold on to a piece of yesterday?

The lazy girl’s guide to being fit

Tired of your own excuses to not work out? Get started with these easy routines

Find your fit: Kickstart your year with these innovative fitness routines

It’s a brand new year. And we’ve made brand new resolutions. Except that old one, which we’ve made every January, every year: to get fitter. But how do we go about it? By renewing the gym membership, surely.

A crash course in world folklore through dance

Watch folk tales from Greece, Japan and Australia being narrated through Odissi, Chhau and contemporary dance forms on World Dance Day

How different would a feminist Ramayana be? A dance production finds out

Four Indian classical dancers come together to retell the Ramayana; this time, from the women’s perspective

Experience Sufism though this spinning dance form performed by Ziya Azazi

Dancer and choreographer Ziya Azazi will be performing at the Sufi musical festival Sama’a: The Mystic Ecstasy

Remembering Smita Patil: Attend this tribute organised by the actor’s childhood friend

This Saturday, on Patil’s 60th birth anniversary a tribute will celebrate friendship and various aspects of Patil’s personality.

Care for some gold in your milkshake?

Gold biscuits are not edible, we know that. But would you believe us if we told you that there’s a way to drink your gold now?

Taste test: we try out sangrias at 5 Mumbai eateries

We get an expert mixologist to tell good sangrias from the average ones. You’re welcome

Head to a pop-up meal in Mumbai where the menu is a secret

Chef Gome Galily is known for his no-fixed-menu approach at his Goa restaurant, Matsya Freestyle Kitchen.

This Halloween, celebrate Edgar Allan Poe’s thrilling stories

This Halloween, a theatre troupe will celebrate two of his popular pieces, The Raven (poem) and The Tell-Tale Heart (prose).

Ahead of Independence Day, Gandhi gets a Broadway-style musical

Ever thought you’d watch Mahatma Gandhi’s story in a song-and-dance form? We sneaked in to the rehearsals of Gandhi — The Musical

The play about rape the audience tried to stop

A 1982 play, Extremities, on rape, is just as relevant today. After an Indian adaptation and some extreme reactions in Bengaluru, it now opens in Mumbai

We sneaked into Disney’s rehearsals for Beauty and the Beast

There are 18 people in a circle, doing warm-up exercises. We’re not in a gym. We’re in Andheri, at a rehearsal of the 18-member principal cast of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast musical.

The Tetseo Sisters on keeping the music of Nagaland alive

Four sisters formed a band and travelled the country to spread the music of their ancestors. Meet Tetseo Sisters, Nagaland’s young cultural ambassadors

Back to the future: Contemporary artists revisit their earlier work

What happens when contemporary artists get to revisit their earlier works and notice the transformation? An exhibition documents just that

Two book lovers took a mobile library across India

Akshay Rautaray and Satabdi Mishra, two book lovers from Orissa, drove across India with a book van, interacting with people of all generations along the way

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