Luca Visini
I don’t let my work affect me emotionally: Luca Visini
3 min read . 19 Jan 2020Some #MondayMotivation from 47-year-old MD of Eli Lilly for India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh
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Star Bar and Restaurant is known for its fresh fish (Photo: Instagram.com/Bars_of_Goa)
Raising the bar on a tavern trail
3 min read . 19 Jan 2020Bars Of Goa is documenting Goa’s taverns on Instagram. The humble tavern, for long off the radar of tourists and even locals, might be making a comeback
The Museum of Houses in Porvorim is in the middle of a road. (Photo: Shoma Abhyankar)
A glimpse of Luso Goa
2 min read . 19 Jan 2020In the broken railings, roofing tiles and Mario Miranda’s art at two Porvorim museums, vignettes of Portuguese Goa are still visible today
The ballistic missile defence interceptor missile used for Mission Shakti in March 2019 (Photo: PTI)
Space security is more than just rocket science
4 min read . 19 Jan 2020Bharath Gopalaswamy’s book ‘Final Frontier’ traces the evolution of the Indian space programme and where India stands in the domain of space security
The worldwide popularity of Lionel Messi and clubs like Barcelona and Real Madrid is fuelling the expansion of LaLiga in India (Photo: Getty Images)
LaLiga’s plans for India domination
5 min read . 19 Jan 2020The Spanish LaLiga is leaving no stone unturned to capture the Indian market for football
Motorcycles can be hailed at stands, popular markets and key junctions (Photo: Rohit Chawla)
Need a ride? Just ask the pilot
4 min read . 18 Jan 2020Goa’s motorcycle pilot system may be on its way out but it can still be counted on for quick and safe transport
Photo: Rohit Chawla
Goa’s Gypsy Pilgrims
3 min read . 18 Jan 2020A new photo exhibition by Rohit Chawla inverts the Western stereotypical gaze of the Orient by focusing on the ‘exotic nomads’ who descend on Goa every winter
Orlando de Noronha (left), Sonia Shirsat and Carlos Meneses performing at Madragoa (Photo: Assavri Kulkarni)
Songs of the heart: A new stage for fado and mandó in Goa
9 min read . 18 Jan 2020New audiences are applauding to the strains of fado as a Goan family and a law teacher-turned-singer usher the Portuguese musical form into the public arena
A Dogears pop-up at the Rosary College of Commerce & Arts in Navelim (Photo courtesy: Dogears bookshop)
How to be a bookworm in Goa
4 min read . 18 Jan 2020Goa’s pop-up book stores and travelling libraries are keeping the love for reading alive. Several new initiatives have been taking books to readers
Vasco Silveira at the Horseshoe restaurant (Photo: Assvari Kulkarni)
Goa’s best chef is a secret
10 min read . 18 Jan 2020Chef Vasco Silveira toils with single-minded focus on the Luso-Goan food for his ferociously loyal clientele. The sum result is pure magic, as good as it gets anywhere in the world
Jitish Kallat (Photo courtesy Nature Morte and Chemould Prescott Road)
Jitish Kallat’s vocabulary for a divided world
5 min read . 18 Jan 2020In his solo in Mumbai in five years, Jitish Kallat looks at ways of cutting across ideologies and talking to the 'other'
Kevin Parker of Tame Impala performing in Detroit in July. (Photo: Getty Images)
The new vanguards of modern psychedelia
4 min read . 18 Jan 2020Australia’s trippy band, Tame Impala, has been called the 'hipster Pink Floyd'. Their music is a heady cocktail of pop and prog-rock that hold fans and critics in thrall
An artist’s conception depicts astronauts and human habitats on Mars (Photo: NASA)
Watch out for these space missions in 2020
4 min read . 18 Jan 2020From solar missions to Martian rovers, Lounge looks at some of the exciting space missions taking off this year
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Equip yourself for the perfect run
3 min read . 18 Jan 2020Lounge reviews three new top-of-the-line running shoes. Here’s how they hold up
A year after Mrinal Sen’s death, his family gave away all his belongings. (Photo: AFP)
The things we leave behind
6 min read . 18 Jan 2020After my grandmother’s death, we found drawers filled with packets of fresheners and aeroplane cutlery, that her pilot son would bring her. Is it our anxiety to not forget and not be forgotten that makes us collect things?
Mixologists are turning innovative, with cocktails to appeal to millennials
Hail the whisky cocktail
1 min read . 18 Jan 2020Is whisky shedding its old-man image to appeal to a more adventurous and ‘fun’ cocktail connoisseur?
Bleached corals at the Society Islands in French Polynesia. (Photo: Getty Images)
Climate Change Tracker: The global ocean heats up
1 min read . 18 Jan 2020For at least fifty years, the global ocean has been absorbing all the excess heat due to global heating. Now, it’s payback time
Model–Ananditaa Singh; Stylist–Pankhuri Chak; Location Courtesy–Titlie, Small Vagator, Goa (Photo: Rohit Chawla)
Anjuna Nights
18 min read . 18 Jan 2020In this dark and fizzy original short story set in Goa, a woman discovers an uncomfortable truth about her husband. To drown her sorrow, she solicits the company of a writer-friend and together they embark on a culinary adventure across North Goa
‘Merchants From Kabul And Iran’ by Ghulam Ali Khan. (Photo courtesy: Arts of Hindostan)
Kampani Kalam in the spotlight
3 min read . 17 Jan 2020A recent exhibition at Bonhams, London, is the latest in a series of shows that seeks to highlight the diverse bodies of work that constitute the genre of ‘Company’ paintings
Scarlett Johansson in Marriage Story
Mood: How the Lounge team is feeling this week
2 min read . 17 Jan 2020From India's record showing in the shooting discipline last year to the Netflix nominations for the Oscars, Lounge takes on the biggest updates of the week
