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Activewear Craze: How a Fitness Industry Turned Body Anxiety Into a Business Model

Activewear Craze: How a Fitness Industry Turned Body Anxiety Into a Business Model

Activewear has become one of the defining fashion shifts of the past decade, moving from gym bag to daily wardrobe with a speed that caught even its own industry off guard. The clothes now travel everywhere: errands, social occasions, the school run, the home office. What has not travelled with them, new research suggests, is the confidence the industry has spent years promising they would deliver.

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Currency effect: Indians paying up more for hotels abroad

Tourists in India

The drop in the value of the rupee has not been auguring well for Indians. During 2013, travellers from India paid more for their hotel rooms as the drop in value of the rupee made traveling abroad more expensive. In fact, Indian travellers paid more for hotel rooms in three out of every four destinations abroad, according to latest Hotels.com Hotel Price Index (HPI). On the other hand, global travellers on an average paid 2 per cent more on hotels in India in 2013 as compared to 2012 (a...

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The firsts in Indian cinema

Kaagaz ke Phool

The roots of Indian cinema are almost as old as those of the medium itself. Within eight months of taking Paris by storm, the touring agents of Lumiere brothers' Cinematographer landed on the shores of India. On July 7, 1896, The Times of India carried an advertisement heralding the arrival of "the marvel of the century" and "wonder of the world". Four screenings took place that historic evening at Watson's Hotel in Bombay (now Mumbai). The entry fee was one Rupee. The show received an...

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