delhi film
Capa’s Golden Portfolio
The Mexican Film Festival is here to give you a glimpse of the country’s entertainment industry with an interesting selection of movies to be showcased over four weeks. It includes The Mexican Suitcase—the story of the recovery of 4,500 negatives by Robert Capa, Gerda Taro and David ‘Chim’ Seymour taken during the Spanish Civil War and found 70 years later in a closet in Mexico City, and their journey from France to Mexico. Then there’s the modern day story of the (car) chase for unrequited love and a man’s journey from ‘sin to church’. The festival—a Mexican Embassy collaboration, brings a mix of cultures for varied and interesting viewing experiences. Till July 31, IHC
Culture Vulture
Collarbone Challenge
What Trending on the social media in China, this is a challenge which asks participants to place coins on their collarbones, click and upload a selfie of it on their Instagram and Facebook accounts. The challenge is to hold as many coins as you can; the more coins you can hold, the better figure you have. Chinese actress Lv Jia Rong is leading the challenge with a record 80 coins, 40 on each collarbone.
Why The collarbone challenge, coming after the belly button challenge (are you able to touch your belly button with either hand from across your back?), received 34 million hits with 24 hours, and is just other way to flaunt ‘good’ figures.
Illustration by Saahil
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Detox At Home
‘Healthy you’ is in vogue, with plenty of products to burn a hole in your pocket; but you don’t need to look beyond your kitchen. Start your day with a glass of lukewarm water with a squeeze of lemon juice. Replacing your coffee cups with green tea is the next step. Avoid carbohydrates like white sugar and flour, and shun fried food. Consume raw foods as much as possible and shake a leg to a Bollywood song or two to burn it out!
Mind
A bicycle rider went a mile in three minutes with the wind, and returned in four minutes against the wind. How fast could he ride a mile if there was no wind?
Answer Three minutes and 25 and 5/7 seconds. He could go a mile and a third in four minutes with the wind, and one mile in four minutes against the wind. Therefore two and one-third miles in eight minutes gives his actual speed.
Jaipur Music
Sway With Them
Beyond Boundaries—A Melodious Sufi Journey, organises a night with the famous qawwali group, Nizami Bandhu. The band, which has Ustad Chand Nizami, son of late Ustad Mehmood Nizami, and Shadab Faridi Nizami and Shorabh Faridi Nizami, sons of late Ustad Ghulam Farid Nizami, as its members, is the oldest Sufi band in India, and was part of the hit qawwali in Rockstar, Kun Faya Kun. July 25, BM Birla Auditorium
bangalore art
Even His Dog Winks
The Indian Cartoon Gallery brings the works of English painter, printmaker and satirist William Hogarth. Displayed are Hogarth’s political caricatures, some of the first in the genre, his comic sketches and acid-tipped pictures of commentary on rambunctious 18th-century England. Their canonical greatness apart, they can be interpreted in the modern-day context. Till July 31, Indian Cartoon Gallery
