Storytellers of Wonder

Author: Jaypore

  • When a Bride has #HerShareofFun!

    Fun, spirited and brazen… that’s the bride of today. For she’s not going to suppress that craving… to run across a freshy-washed-in-the-rain field, or do an impromptu jig on the tables, uninhibited, or even pull her very own Mr. Groom’s leg…. all for some fun! Ever since you’ve sent us these… we haven’t stopped smiling.…

  • Braj Ki Holi

    Braj ki Holi beckoned a band of thirsty travelers from across the land to rejoice in a colorful feast this spring immersed in the magic of Krishna’s playground. In Mathura lay history writ in stone tales of grandeur and glory framed Of Kanishka and his burgeoning metropolis and Buddha worshipped in many a form. Then…

  • A Date with Design and More at Windmill Design Festival 2015

    Over the last few years, the studios of Windmill Interiors and Pradeep Sachdeva Design Associates (PSDA) at Aya Nagar on the Delhi-Haryana border have become the focus of a creative community that often drops in to share an idea, collaborate or simply talk over a cup of coffee. The Windmill Festival celebrates this friendship and…

  • The Geometric Genius of Toda Tribal Embroidery

    This red and black play on cloth is an embroidery so fine that it looks like weaving. Toda embroidery created by the Toda tribe inhabiting the Niligiris, is reversible and they consider the rougher underside of the fabric as the ‘right’ side. The Todas are a small pastoral community who live on the isolated Nilgiri…

  • Charma Chitrakari of Andhra Pradesh

    We are no more than a moving row of magic shadow-shapes that come and go round with sun-illumined lantern held in midnight by the Master of the Show. —From the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (12th century) Known as Tholu Bommalata in Andhra Pradesh (Tholu -leather, Bommalata – puppet dance), leather shadow puppetry was a widespread…

  • For Art’s Sake: An Afternoon at the India Art Fair, Delhi

    You could have been excused for mistaking it for an amusement park. Toddlers running amok and families sitting about munching fast food on a Saturday afternoon is a very atypical introduction to an Art Fair, especially one that has become in its young (seven year) life India’s biggest art event of the year. The India…

  • To Alwar and Back in a Heartbeat

    The yellow of her odhni, of the mustard in the breeze, of the unabashed sun. It is the color that follows you through the dusty roads that lead out of Delhi and towards Alwar, the ‘Gateway to Rajasthan’. Sitting to the north of the capital city Jaipur, this erstwhile princely state now beckons weekend free-wheelers…

  • The Art of Chess – Event in Town

    Flavored Indian sweetmeats, or ladoos, rusted iron boxes, ageing ceramic figurines, glittering glass bottles of perfumes….. No, we aren’t talking about a walk down a Sunday flea market, or a village bazaar on a festive eve, we are talking about various artists’ interpretations of the good old chessboard! The Art Of Chess is a group…

  • Raja Ravi Varma and The Royal Gaekwad Collection

    The Maharaja Fateh Singh Museum, housed within the Lakshmi Vilas Palace in Vadodara, India, carries some of the most unique European and Indian art works, that were collected by Maharaja Sir Sayajirao Gaekwad III during his numerous trips out of India. The Museum was constructed as a school for the Maharaja’s children. It was established…

  • Treasures from Nagaland

    The Nagas have a rich tradition of art and craft rooted in a lifestyle that has always been in harmony with the environment they live in. Their utility items, weapons, costumes and textiles for the home are all created by deft craftsman of the tribe, with each having a ritualistic or aesthetic value. All the…