Dipanita Nath

Mainstreet Marketplace founded by Vedant Lamba does not retail but resells sneakers — linking its business model to a subculture that is prominent in the West.

Mauji Cafe doesn’t look like a regular eatery — there are about 120 seats spread across 5,500 sq ft area, which is a lot of breathing space between furniture and the people who occupy the tables here are working, relaxing or reading rather than just eating or drinking.

With more than 20,000 artefacts of regular use, this Pune museum stands testimony to Dinkar Gangadhar Kelkar’s passion for recording history

Titled Raaz, the exhibition at Koregaon Park comprises works that Khosrow Hassanzadeh created before the pandemic as he wrote while singing out loud the poems he was composing, and danced around in a kind of Sufi movement so that what emerged are texts that nobody can read, with an image hinting at the theme.

Bengaluru’s prestigious Indian Institute of Cartoonists to exhibit caricatures and cartoons of Anirban Bora, who passed away from COVID last year

The mission of Adrish is to promote a waste-free way of living and serve nature at the level of consumers. Adrish retails food and groceries, home decor items, cleaning products, beauty products and toys of the kind the previous generations played with.

At the heart of Inscape is nature, present in trees on the property, the birdcalls during the day, the complementary fresh lemon and ginger amla that is served besides tea and coffee and an app on which one can listen to ragas to relax.

With online courses on AI, machine learning and cybersecurity, Pune-based RISE looks to bridge the skill gap in education

From students and pensioners to techies and celebs, this no-frills Irani restaurant has attracted a varied clientele to become an institution in a fast-changing city

Omicron is setting up Inscape Co-work in its buildings at Koregaon Park Annexe as well as Seven Loves Chowk and more are in the pipeline.

Apptmart is a Pune-based startup that is pushing the transition of traditional and new businesses to a digital mode by offering artificial intelligence-driven, easy-to-use e-commerce platforms.

Today, the club has 10 members, with Elon Musk on top and Jeff Bezos next, followed by Bernard Arnault, Bill Gates, and Warren Buffett. Gautam Adani is 10th on the list.

"Travel entrepreneurs need to be flexible and adapt to each client because no two individuals will think the same way. Experience will be the buzzword of the future," says Rohan Ratnapal, founder and CEO of Rivers and Ridges.

The methodology of the late founder of the Auroville-based Adishakti Theatre Arts, who fused Sri Aurobindo’s philosophy with myriad folk performance art, entails a long gestation process, focus on breath, no linear narrative, actors playing multiple roles, and stories meshing into one another

The first time Joshi set foot in Pune was as a young runaway on his way to Gwalior in search of a guru, but boarded the wrong train. In 1950, Joshi settled down in Pune, which had a very knowledgeable classical music milieu that appealed to several top musicians.

"Millions of young people from tier-3 and tier-4 towns do not appear for central or national level job exams. They are better versed in writing exams in vernacular languages and prefer securing a government job in their area," says Karanvir Singh, CEO of Pariksha.

Sunil Shanbag on theatre in the post-pandemic era, rebuilding the stage and reflecting on new stories

They started in a pandemic year, August 2020, as the first wave of infections receded and a second one was on the horizon, with a product that appeals to a niche market of women who prefer slow fashion, handloom, and handmade products.

MySilkLove is planning to increase its options on women's wear, by offering kurtis, stoles and other designer clothing.

Amid the second anniversary of the pandemic, ‘Hunkaro’ focuses on the critical factor that everybody was hooked to as the disease raged — hope.

Olga Smirnova, the prima ballerina of the Bolshoi Ballet, one of the world’s leading classical ballet companies in Moscow, has quit to protest Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Who is she, and what next for her?

Hippie@Heart has bounced back from difficult times focussing on areas away from city centres and also through its community-building activities.

The Zs that started to appear first as large signs painted in white on Russian tanks and military vehicles as they prepared to roll into Ukraine, have since become a graphic rallying point of the invasion.

The play unfolds with a newly-wedded couple moving to a shanty with sugarcane workers and finding women advising the bride to undergo hysterectomy.