CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu’s V Sharan has turned a childhood fascination into a mission to protect one of nature’s most elusive predators — tiger beetles. “I stumbled upon my first tiger beetle in 2014,” Sharan recalls, his passion evident. That moment changed everything for me.” That ‘blur’ turned out to be a Yellow-shouldered tiger beetle, one of India’s lesser-known treasures. While …
A little over 150 years ago, over 30,000 hand cut and mounted samples of Indian textiles were painstakingly organised into an album series to educate and inspire commercial and design industries in India and Britain. Watson would have been pleased to walk around the ‘India in Fashion’ exhibition at the newly-opened Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre in Mumbai, which documents …
To be unveiled at the 2021 Shanghai auto show, the new ORA EV clearly follows the design template of a motoring icon. China’s Great Wall Motors is going from strength to strength in many markets worldwide, and its ORA all-electric sub-brand continues to grow with the regular addition of new models. Now, ORA’s latest EV has been previewed ahead of …
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