Chokita Paul

2 weeks ago | deccanchronicle.com | Chokita Paul

Heirloom textiles and soulful music converged at Aadyam Handwoven’s recent event, celebrating the artistry of handwoven fabrics and the overpowering connections between textiles and the performing arts. The presentation began with the launch of the Aditya Birla Group’s social enterprise, Aadyam’s new collection, a stunning blend of brown cotton and Gadwal sarees. But the fabric wasn’t the only thing that caught the audience’s attention.

2 weeks ago | deccanchronicle.com | Chokita Paul

If you ask a townie what defines an Irani café, chances are you’ll hear something sincerely personal, not just about chai or bun maska, but about time spent, people watched, lives observed. So when we asked both the custodians and the loyalists of Hyderabad’s beloved Irani cafes what single piece they’d rescue from time’s erosion — a stool, a story, a sip of chai — their answers unfolded like a memory-soaked blueprint of the city’s past.

1 month ago | deccanchronicle.com | Chokita Paul

His series of paintings titled ‘A Masked State of Mind’ questions the myth of a singular identity in the current digital age. “We perform versions of ourselves every day,” Dushyant says, “and the scary part is, I don’t think we even realise how often we shift.”His works stem from a fascination with human duplicity — not in a moralistic sense, but just from a deeply observational plane.

1 month ago | deccanchronicle.com | Chokita Paul

It began as a subtle reposition on the runways, a few daring red-carpet choices, a nostalgic nod to ’80s power dressing. The jacket-and-tie combination has fastened itself as one of the defining fashion facts of the moment. A once-rigid emblem of masculinity, the tie has long oscillated between corporate necessity and countercultural rebellion. Women donning the look are neither borrowing nor imitating. They are reinterpreting, and revisiting what it means to dress with authority.

1 month ago | deccanchronicle.com | Chokita Paul

If you’ve scrolled through X in the last hours, you’d be forgiven for thinking you’d stumbled into films from Japanese animation major Studio Ghibli. Picture-perfect scenes in the signature aesthetic of famed animator, manga artist and director Hayao Miyazaki; lush greenery with a touch of whimsy; have taken over timelines. But here’s the catch: None of these was painstakingly hand-drawn over months by human illustrators.