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Sanjay Singh Badnor

Bundi: The legacy continues

May 20, 2022

The sleepy town of Bundi awoke with great anticipation on the morning of the Navsamvatsar. It was the 2nd of April 2022 coinciding with the first day of the Hindu month of Chaitra which heralds the New Year in North India. The beginning of the year 2079 of the Vikram...

RAJTILAK AT THE KOTAHGARH

March 25, 2022

The recent Rajtilak at Kotah heralded royal revelry, fanfare and pageantry that were truly reminiscent of an era gone by. Following the demise of the late HH Maharao Saheb Brijraj Singhji, his son and heir, Ijyaraj Singh was anointed as the 19th Maharao of Kotah in a private yet spectacular...

How Poornamrita Singh became Bollywood’s celebrated costume designer

February 25, 2022

Katrina Kaif and Sidharth Malhotra’s multiple makeovers in ‘Baar Baar Dekho’, Ranveer Singh’s street style of a rapper in ‘Gully Boy’, the high heeled and chic characters from the Amazon Prime web series ‘Made In Heaven’ and Bhumi Pednekar‘s rustic look in Netflix’s ‘Lust Stories’. All of these have a...

THE GRAND MYSORE DASARA: A TRIBUTE TO THE LATE MAHARAJA S.N. WADIYAR

October 15, 2021

The Dasara festival at Mysore is renowned throughout the country for its flamboyance and pageantry. The annual 10-day-long celebrations are conducted with great pomp and show that culminate in the much-awaited grand procession which marks the finale of the festivities. The Amba Vilas Palace is the focus of all the...