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KM Siddharaman of Sri Balaji Silks displays a heavy wedding sari at his showroom in Elampillai. Photo: Nahla Nainar/THE HINDU

Soft, affordable and online: How Elampillai’s saris became a hit on social media

Nahla Nainar The saris produced by this power loom weaving hub near Salem have found fans everywhere, thanks to social media

Soups are a healthy addition to our diet on rainy days. Photo: Andrey Zhuravlev/ Getty Images/iStock

Feeling hungry? Check out these recipes for a rainy day

Nahla Nainar Soups, halwas and rasams... Indian cuisine serves up a wonderful spread of warm options for surviving the cold and wet months

Natural course of action: Sriram Prasad ‘s team has 10 more products in the pipeline.

Options that make it easier to add greens to your diet

Soma Basu Coimbatore-based start-up Keeraikadai.com has launched five ready-to-eat curries made with greens

A matching mask for your sari blouse

Prabalika M. Borah The friendly neighbourhood tailor goes the extra mile now to make a mask from the leftover material of your blouse

Asthma, COPD and respiratory relieving health food with herbs and spices used in herbal medicine. High in antioxidants, anthocayanins, protein, omega 3, minerals and vitamins. Flat lay.

The asthma diet

Soma Basu With winter setting in and pollution levels soaring, people with lived experiences and health professionals tell us what foods may work and what may not, to help you breathe better

Cyclone Nivar also kept meme makers busy

How Tamil meme nation kept Chennai’s spirits high during Cyclone Nivar

Srinivasa Ramanujam It kept meme makers and comedians busy, as they conjured up witty content

Learning Urdu Society

E-platform ‘Aamozish’ helps to learn Urdu in seven days

Neeraja Murthy E-platform Aamozish helps to learn Urdu in seven days using animations and self-assessment quizzes

Microsoft Office files on iOS get Google Workspace edit support. | Picture by special arrangement.

Microsoft Office files in iOS devices can be edited using Google Workspace

Ishan Patra The availability of Office editing on iOS will allow users to edit, comment, and collaborate using powerful real-time tools.

Multimedia

Watch | Paris' rooftop cellist

Watch | World's first hydrogen powered double-decker buses

Good Earth Marrakech Adil Jacket : This patchwork cotton number for men — which can be paired with both kurtas and shirts — comes with a geometric black Ajrakh hand-block printed pattern and a striped cotton-silk lining. ₹28,000 on goodearth.in

Diwali ready: the jacket

Watch | India’s first batch of homegrown asafoetida

Fashion

KM Siddharaman of Sri Balaji Silks displays a heavy wedding sari at his showroom in Elampillai. Photo: Nahla Nainar/THE HINDU

Gold leaf covered table with a wooden top

Soft, affordable and online: How Elampillai’s saris became a hit on social media

The saris produced by this power loom weaving hub near Salem have found fans everywhere, thanks to social media

A matching mask for your sari blouse

Prabalika M. Borah

The friendly neighbourhood tailor goes the extra mile now to make a mask from the leftover material of your blouse

Anjaleka Kriplani takes affordable luxury online

Sunalini Mathew

How Anjaleka Kriplani has worked across generations to stay relevant and thrive

Models sport ensembles from Love Song bridal collection

Interview Fashion

Anita Dongre is all for slow, relevant fashion

Sangeetha Devi Dundoo

(Clockwise from left) Vivek Karunakaran, Naushad Ali, Sounak Sen Barat, Anuj Sharma, Sandeep Gonsalves, Sreejith Jeevan

How Indian fashion designers are surviving 2020

Susanna Myrtle Lazarus Surya Praphulla Kumar Independent fashion designers from across the country share how they have adopted new roles or pivoted to overcome the challenges of Covid-19

Food

Soups are a healthy addition to our diet on rainy days. Photo: Andrey Zhuravlev/ Getty Images/iStock

Feeling hungry? Check out these recipes for a rainy day

Nahla Nainar Soups, halwas and rasams... Indian cuisine serves up a wonderful spread of warm options for surviving the cold and wet months

Natural course of action: Sriram Prasad ‘s team has 10 more products in the pipeline.

Options that make it easier to add greens to your diet

Soma Basu Coimbatore-based start-up Keeraikadai.com has launched five ready-to-eat curries made with greens

Motoring

Travel

Fitness

How to get a skin that defies age?

Susan Joe Philip Here are tips from experts on how to take care of our skin after turning 40

Social matters Digital social influence has an impact on the way we exercise; the author (below)

excerpt How often you work out is decided by social media and your friends?

Sinan Aral Social influence and peer support affect exercise behaviour. This and more from a book on how social media shapes our lives

Homes and gardens

Gold leaf covered table with a wooden top

Anjaleka Kriplani takes affordable luxury online

Sunalini Mathew How Anjaleka Kriplani has worked across generations to stay relevant and thrive

Houseproud in 15

Chintz and chairs for the holiday season

Surya Praphulla Kumar

Some pretty print inspiration and hunting furniture for the living room

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Soft, affordable and online: How Elampillai’s saris became a hit on social media

Food

Feeling hungry? Check out these recipes for a rainy day

Microsoft Office files in iOS devices can be edited using Google Workspace

Learning Urdu Society

E-platform ‘Aamozish’ helps to learn Urdu in seven days

silk masks Fashion

A matching mask for your sari blouse

How Tamil meme nation kept Chennai’s spirits high during Cyclone Nivar

The asthma diet

With winter setting in and pollution levels soaring, people with lived experiences and health professionals tell us what foods may work and what may not, to help you breathe better

Options that make it easier to add greens to your diet

Coimbatore-based start-up Keeraikadai.com has launched five ready-to-eat curries made with greens

Microsoft Flight Simulator gets new airports, visual enhancements in U.S. update

Gamers will also be able to experience the visual enhancements made to 48 other airports, 50 new points of interest across the country, and new activities on each coast.

India Design Forum’s virtual debates look at rethinking the scope of architecture

Coimbatore-based India Design Forum’s series of virtual debates looks at re-evaluating architectural practices and the relevance of the spaces we live in

Should we put ourselves on a digital diet?

How many times do we eat in front of a screen? How many times have we used an OTT platform to lull us to sleep? It is possible that the real diet must be on screens and the screen time we’re fed on

Photography series shines the spotlight on Chennai’s lightmen

Photographer Madhavan Palanisamy on his latest black-and-white project, ‘The Reflector’

Biryani Macha to The Void: Why Chennai’s chefs lean on simple yet familiar foods

As we draw closer to the end of 2020 under grey skies, buffeted by gusty winds, city chefs lean on popular, simple and most importantly, familiar foods to bring some cheer to a challenging year

Microsoft Teams rolls out new personalisation features

The new features will let users to add personal accounts in the desktop or web app to easily stay on top of work as well as personal conversations through a single interface.

At Majuli, the masks come out on raas jatra

Raas Utsav, a two-day festival in Assam featuring plays in which actors sport masks made of natural materials, will be held with precautionary measures this year

Karuna Quilt Movement uses crowd-sourced blocks to make patchwork quilts for the frontline workers

Taruna Gandotra-Sethi is glad that she has been able to reach the target of acquiring the blocks needed to make 100 quilts by November 15, three

Watch | Paris' rooftop cellist

A video on Camille Thomas who has taken to playing her cello on Parisian roofs during France's COVID-19 lockdown

Discover real-life stories of queer love from across India

Museum on Queer Swipe Stories, an Instagram account by Gaysi Family and Tinder documents the wonderful everyday-ness of queer love from across India

Vimal Chandran’s 2021 calendar, Songs for the Birds features his watercolour paintings

The works are from his illustrations called Unposted Letters

Work-from-home living has imbibed ‘a no rush timetable’ for these Indians

We chat with people who’ve turned their lockdown routines around, and can teach us a thing or two about time value and management

Remembering friends and Fa Yian

The good thing about the pandemic is that it has given us moments to pause and remember the friends who loved Fa Yian

Anjaleka Kriplani takes affordable luxury online

How Anjaleka Kriplani has worked across generations to stay relevant and thrive

Cow hugging: What is it?

People in the West are increasingly taking to embracing the cow for hours as a healing therapy for various illnesses and particular anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic

How a T-shirt commemorates a landmark battle

Delhi-based experience design company, Motherland, is using a T-shirt as a medium of storytelling, to tell people about 6 Kumaon battalion’s contribution to the Battle of Walong

Retail store launches and royal beginnings

A round-up of what’s been happening in India and around the world, from The Hindu Weekend desk

Anita Dongre is all for slow, relevant fashion

Launching her first flagship store in Hyderabad, designer Anita Dongre says the pandemic has made people celebrate classy, timeless styles

Weekly Bytes | Zoom’s hybrid workforce features, Google’s data settings, and more

Here's our curated list of important tech news from this week in byte size.

Rick Riordan talks of Apollo’s final trial

The Trials of Apollo and Percy Jackson and the Olympians author says human beings have the capacity to be great heroes, but can also become the bad guys quite easily

Microsoft Edge gets new productivity, shopping features

Now, people will be able to digitally ink and annotate directly onto screenshots by clicking on add notes, and then save or share it. The ability to capture a full webpage in a single click, will be available later this month.

Sheer glass, sheer class

How to build a totally open, expansive residence even on a small site. A look by Nandhini Sundar

Chintz and chairs for the holiday season

Some pretty print inspiration and hunting furniture for the living room

How Indian fashion designers are surviving 2020

Independent fashion designers from across the country share how they have adopted new roles or pivoted to overcome the challenges of Covid-19

KTM launches KTM 250 Adventure bike

The latest bike is powered by a 248cc single-cylinder liquid-cooled engine.

Film photography makes a comeback as more dark rooms crop up across India

Are the challenges, surprise element, or the old-world charm responsible for this resurgence?

Meet Priyanka Sahajananda, the young celebrity stylist making a mark in the glamour field

One of the youngest designers on the style block is making a mark by designing and creating new looks for television stars

These kids are alright: on AK-OK, a new label from Anamika Khanna’s sons

Designer Anamika Khanna’s sons step up the game with their young label, AK-OK

Tick tock on the runway: on Audemars Piguet and Ralph & Russo’s new collab

Love for craftsmanship underscores Audemars Piguet and Ralph & Russo’s new collab, with watch finishes that mimic embroidery and designs for smaller wrists

After a year in Kochi, yachters to set sail to Europe

Joanna Barck and Marcus Dolega have been living on their yacht, parked at Bolgatty island, in Kochi for a year. Now, despite the pandemic, they are preparing for their next big adventure: sailing home to Germany with their dog Nico

Colours for the season

Teja Lele Desai on a few unusual combinations to experiment with

Nvidia, Epic to bring ‘Fortnite’ back to iPhones in ‘near future’

Nvidia and Epic said “Fortnite” will return to iPhones through the device's Safari web browser, which is not subject to Apple's billing requirements or rules.

Here’s how to get creative with your leftover food

Leftovers can be put to use to whip up fancy dishes, with just a little thought and planning

This Kerala joint serves puttu to suit your political inclinations

With the local body elections around the corner, the ‘political puttu’ at Amina’s Puttu Kada at Kuttichal in Thiruvananthapuram district is much in demand

How Hyderabad-based The Lighthouse Project earned seats at UN’s 1Million for 1 Billion initiative

The Lighthouse Project by three school students, is building global bonds against religious, cultural and racial discrimination, earning them seats at a UN summit

Zayka Ka Tadka is an online platform for mothers to post vegetarian recipes

Founded by Vijay Haldiya and daughter, Apeksha, it has recipes specific to different parts of the country uploaded by women of all age groups

2020 Hyundai i20: A step up especially in terms of space, comfort

The new i20 has loads of visually interesting bits, and comes with a choice of five engine-gearbox combinations

Big Biking Commune launches initiative to help mechanics, garages

The Big Biking Commune, an aggregator platform in the motorcycling community in India and Southeast Asia, has launched the My Mechanic, My Friend

Zoom's new security features to manage unruly meeting participants

Using 'suspend participant activities' feature meeting hosts and co-hosts can now temporarily pause their meeting and remove an unmanageable participant.

Answering your vehicle-related queries

A car for daily use and travelShivani Yadav, Gandhinagar: I can’t decide between the Maruti Suzuki WagonR, Renault Kwid and the Hyundai Santro. I

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Senior Congress leader Ahmed Patel

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Residents of Pattinampakkam, mostly fishermen, run for safety as strong winds and waves picked up pace and move huge quantities of sand up to the road, a good distance away from the waterfront, in Chennai on November 25, 2020.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressing the All India Presiding Officers Conference via video conference, on Thursday, November 26, 2020.

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A medic fills a syringe with an experimental COVID-19 vaccine to administer it to a health worker during its trials at the Gujarat Medical Education and Research Society in Ahmedabad on November 26, 2020.

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President Donald Trump gets out of a golf cart as he plays golf at Trump National Golf Club, on Thanksgiving, in Sterling, Va., on November 26, 2020.

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In Mamallapuram, a heritage town and popular tourist destination, huts were damaged in the strong winds and torrential rain. As rains lashed, troops of monkeys sought refuge under the decorative, cave-like arches, dotted with images of deities carved in stone at the ancient Sri Sthalasayana Perumal temple.

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Stan Swamy. File

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Rains triggered by Cyclone Nivar inundate tracks at Korukkupet railway station in Chennai on November 24, 2020. Southern Railway has cancelled all suburban trains and those bound for Tamil Nadu’s southern districts for November 25, 2020 in view of the cyclone.

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