Editorial

Editorial

Looking Back Going Forward Anniversaries are a good time to look back. As 2017 draws to an end, it is time to remember that at DW we have completed a seven-year eventful journey, a journey that has served up the many colours and hues of our democratic world to our readers and followers; a journey...

Up-to-Date

MANUSHI CHHILLAR BRINGS HOME MISS WORLD CROWN

“Only when women are empowered to thrive will our families, our economies and our societies reach their fullest potential.” ACCOLADE// India’s Manushi Chhillar has won the Miss World beauty pageant for the year 2017. The win comes 17 years after Priyanka Chopra brought home the coveted titl...

Cover Story

BASKING IN OPULENCE

• Relaunch of its award-winning All Day Brasserie S18 in a new avatar — the SXVIII All Day Brasserie Relaunch of its multi-award winning TCB (The Chocolate Box) in the lobby The all-new MBD Privé Collection; the ultimate in uber luxury that has redefined the experience of hotel stays in the...

Platform

DEMON CHASING GST

INDIA CELEBRATED its 70 years of Independence in 2017 with some major political and economic upheavals along the year. One of the shock decisions of late 2016 carried over to the year’s beginning making it a difficult start for a nation told to queue up outside banks and ATMs after the governmen...

Politics

THE PADMAVATI CONTROVERSY

FAIR IS FOUL AND FOUL IS FAIR Padmavati, in a sense, is a neighbourhood story. My village, Mustafabad, happens to be in Rae Bareli, which embraces numerous Chishtiya Sufi shrines or places where the saints spent some time, including Khwaja Ashraf Jehangir Semnani, the saint Malik Mohammad Jaisi, ...

Textiles

AN INDIAN TAPESTRY

It would be a colossal loss for India's rich textile and craft heritage to disappear.The future generation will never know the beauty of wearing natural handcrafted and hand-embroidered clothes.Grassroot founded by Anita Donger is to ensure is to ensure taht the long tradition of craftsmanship is ...

International

RED STAR IN THE NIGHT SKY

Remembering Ernesto Che Guevara 50 years after his Assassination. American filmmaker Oliver Stone visited Havana and other parts of Cuba in 2002 to shoot his epical and long documentary, ‘Comandante’, which was released to worldwide acclaim in 2003. The documentary was simple: an endless conv...

Lifestyle

THINK LOCAL, EAT LOCAL

Forget about acacia seeds and goji berries.The secret foods for health,vitality and weight loss lie in your own kitchens and backyards.from aphrodisiacs to fertility boosters,fat burners to mind calmers,Rujuta talks you through the 10 Indian superfoods that will completely transform you. At a tim...

Social Agenda

TAKING OFF AT GROUND LEVEL

An Airbus A300 that doesn't fly;but gives you the experience of air travel on the ground. Young Ativ is excited about his first in-flight experience. After collecting his boarding pass and checking-in his baggage he makes his way to aircraft. There a friendly air hostess makes him comfortable in ...

Travel

THE HILLS ARE ALIVE

Vienna is always the obvious go-to choice when visiting Austria for the first time – famed for its diverse and exciting cultural scene. But there is much beyond the capital with mountain landscapes and picturesque towns waiting to be discovered. Austria has been almost synonymous with the ever-...

Education

A VOCATION TO STUDY

The increasing need to focus on a vocational education in a student's career. Growing up we were made to believe that the only worthwhile courses of study were academic and that which would ultimately land us in some professional course or the other, the premier ones being engineering, medicine o...