{"id":3432,"date":"2012-03-03T09:09:23","date_gmt":"2012-03-03T09:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.tehelka.com\/?p=3432"},"modified":"2012-03-03T09:09:23","modified_gmt":"2012-03-03T09:09:23","slug":"master-takes-73","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/master-takes-73\/","title":{"rendered":"Master Takes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Compiled by\u00a0Aradhna Wal & Naina Manjrekar<\/strong>
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Monochrome<\/strong> A work by Ashish Soni<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nRohit Chawla On Art<\/strong>
\nI generally don\u2019t go for exhibitions twice. However, I broke that rule for\u00a0Ashish Soni<\/strong>\u2019s installation\u00a0Absolut Soni: 20 years in Fashion \u2014 Retrospective Exhibit<\/em>, at the Aman Hotel, New Delhi. A first-rate show, it could easily be in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, or any other internationally renowned gallery or museum. It makes mincemeat out of the mediocre exhibitions by other, usually better, artists. It showcases 20 years of his life in the fashion industry, and incorporates some of his greatest work. The colour palette is black and white with a superb finish. It is one of the best things I have seen by a designer.
\nChawla<\/strong>\u00a0Is A Delhi-Based Photographer<\/em>
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\n\"The<\/a>Usha KR On Books<\/strong>
\nEdith Wharton<\/strong>\u2019s scintillating\u00a0The Age of Innocence<\/em>\u00a0is set in turn-of-the-century New York, a diamondhard society that lives \u201cin an atmosphere of faint implications and pale delicacies\u201d. The love triangle recognisable even today \u2014 a couple disrupted by a sophisticated, irresistible outsider\u2019s allure of forbidden experience. Wharton manages to be evenly sympathetic to all her characters.<\/p>\n

\u2018The couple in love gets disrupted by a sophisticated and irresistible outsider<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Usha<\/strong>\u00a0Is The Author Of A Girl And A River<\/em>
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\n\"\"<\/a>George Mathen On Music<\/strong>
\n<\/strong>I\u2019ve been listening to the 1970s progressive rock these days;\u00a0King Crimson, Yes and Genesis<\/em>.\u00a0Genesis<\/em>\u00a0was truly great when\u00a0Peter Gabriel<\/strong>\u00a0was part of the band. All three bands never had any hit singles at the time, but gathered a cult following because of their concept albums and kick-ass album art. They had weird music and time signature changes.\u00a0Phil Collins<\/strong>\u00a0was far more interesting as the drummer of\u00a0Genesis<\/em>, than as a vocalist.
\nMathen<\/strong>\u00a0Is The Drummer Of Bengaluru-Based Lounge Piranha<\/em>
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Fin A still from Goodbye, Dragon Inn<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nRanjan Palit On Film<\/strong>
\nTsai Ming-Liang<\/strong>\u2019s\u00a0Goodbye, Dragon Inn<\/em>\u00a0is a film about oddballs watching an old martial arts movie in a theatre about to shut down. It is about lost connections, isolated souls, bygone times and the demise of celluloid. Two old men from the audience lament the fact that their films aren\u2019t watched any more. We realise that they were the combatants in the old martial arts movie. In the last scene, the usher pulls down the shutters, walks out onto the street in the rain and Tsai<\/strong>\u2019s static camera, holds the frame as she walks away: a passing on…
\nPalit\u00a0<\/strong>Is A Kolkata-Based Documentary Filmmaker<\/em>
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\nRitu Dalmia On Food<\/strong>
\nZambar\u00a0<\/strong>is one of the best places for south Indian coastal cuisine in Delhi. Located in Vasant Kunj\u2019s Ambience Mall, its USP is the food\u2019s home-cooked-like freshness. The person in charge of the kitchen is ex-filmmaker Arun Kumar, who left his old career for his love for food. My favourite dishes are the meen moilee, the thick dosas that are to die for, and achamma lamb curry. They also experiment with Parsi and Andhra food. The flavouring and spices are always very well executed. The clientele is generally people who love food, like big Punjabi families. It\u2019s not a place to be seen at, but to eat your heart out.<\/p>\n

Dalmia<\/strong>\u00a0Is A Chef And The Owner Of Diva, New Delhi<\/em><\/p>\n


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Compiled by\u00a0Aradhna Wal & Naina Manjrekar Rohit Chawla On Art I generally don\u2019t go for exhibitions twice. However, I broke that rule for\u00a0Ashish Soni\u2019s installation\u00a0Absolut Soni: 20 years in Fashion \u2014 Retrospective Exhibit, at the Aman Hotel, New Delhi. A first-rate show, it could easily be in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21],"tags":[7051,5933,7056,7169,7170,7057,7058,7171,7078,7110,7172,7173,7167],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3432"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/73"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}