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Book review: The Designer by Marius Gabriel

A look-back at the start of the Dior phenomenon The Designer is an account of fashion at a time when Nazi – grey and American/Allied Forces khaki was the shade du jour. This is Paris in 1944, seen through the eyes of American Oona ‘Copper’ Reilly. Married to a promiscuous man and trying to…

Book review: Transgressions by Vaiju Naravane

Avalanche of secrets Adultery, betrayal, loneliness, family friction… all put together with quiet assurance. Journalist and editor Vaiju Naravane’s first book is about the troubled relationships people enter into and exit from in life. Kranti Goray is a proverbial Maharashtrian girl next door who emerges rather violently from her chrysalis, becomes something of a…

Travel: Paris from the River Seine

Down by the river… Sheila Kumar gets a different perspective of Paris as seen from the glinting gray waters of the Seine Tomas, all of twenty-six going on sixteen, is our guide aboard the neat little vedette, the passenger boat. It is a moot point whether Tomas is a good guide: he speaks fast and…

Travel: Just One Place….

JETWINGS INTERNATIONAL Just One Place If time constraints forced you to choose just one city in…

Travel: Paris: Mogan, Montmartre, Madhu and Montparnasse

Madhu, Mogan and Montparnasse Sheila Kumar gets a rather unusual perspective on Paris, The City of Lights. Mogan Sue, Madhu and me meet Mogan-from- Tiruchirapally) one autumn evening in the foyer of our hotel, the Hotel Montmartrois in Paris. After Mogan spooks us with a slew of warnings about “being careful,” he insists…