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Payal Jain's Cynthia Dress Is the Fall Statement Piece This Season's Festive Calendar Actually Needs
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Payal Jain's Cynthia Dress Is the Fall Statement Piece This Season's Festive Calendar Actually Needs
Payal Jain has spent close to three decades working in the space between heritage Indian textile craft and Western silhouette, a philosophy she's described as building "a western body with an Indian soul", and the Cynthia Dress, from her label's fall offering, reads as a fairly literal expression of that idea.
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'M se Maa' Brings a Mother and Daughter's Story to the NCPA Stage
The National Centre for the Performing Arts presents M se Maa, a Hindi musical play about memory, motherhood and the moments that quietly shape who we become, staged at the Godrej Dance Theatre on 6 September 2026 in two shows, at 5pm and 7.30pm, as an NCPA presentation in collaboration with Story Circus.
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KYNKYNY Art Gallery, recently opened in an art deco building in Mumbai's Kala Ghoda, presents its next show this September, a solo exhibition by Priyanka Aelay titled "It Will Rain Again When We Meet," from 9th September to 1st October 2026 with free entry. The forest is the center of Aelay's world, and in these paintings it appears in a vast, lush expanse, its fauna half-hidden within the foliage, a fox in one corner, a tiger in another, and a jewel-bright bird peering out f
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