Costs tie wedding couples in knots
09.02.12
NEW DELHI: When her Cinderella weight finally arrived, bride-to-be Arundhati Borgohain found herself faced with the autocratic of scaling down her childhood dream. Like the fairytale stepmother, inflation had crept up on her to play one's part spoilsport. With a tight budget at her disposal, the Mayur Vihar abiding has had to balance spending on gold and marigolds, desserts and decor...
"I have a budget of Rs 6 lakh for everything asunder except for from jewellery, but it will only cover the basics. So, I have opted for inexpensive flowers, such as rose and marigold; the dais will be undecorated and the menu trimmer. We had planned for five non-veg dishes but now there will be only three. Desserts, too, are down from four to three and starters from seven to four," she says.
Caught between their budgets and the force to live it up on weddings, most middle- and upper-middle kind individuals in Arundhati's shoes are saving on non-essentials this year, marrying planners say. The fact that wedding packages cost 15-20% more than last year has also spurred some sparse and imaginative planning.
Source: Times of India
Reverb: Twin Shadow
09.02.12
Words by Kevin Duffel, photography by Blair Alley
Unless you’re a off one's rocker, self-obsessed kind of guy with a severe Napoleon complex, hearing your own organ echo back at you from the stereo speakers, mid-coitus, is a total bummer. Above all when the girl you’re consummating your love to is responsible for having pushed pit oneself against. (There’s a very fine line between groupie and stalker.) While it’s a bizarre endure the average person will most likely never live through, according to George Lewis, Jr.—the front man and songwriter of the Brooklyn-based gang, Twin Shadow—it’s not just a guaranteed way to kill a boner, “it’s unqualifiedly unacceptable.”
But it’s a malfeasance the singer will most likely have to get used to if he continues to compose the kind of music he’s so damn good at writing. As if filtered through and then spat erect out the fog machine of an ’80s middle school dance, Associate Shadow’s tunes might be a more fitting soundtrack to a 2am backseat muddle through out sesh than some high speed Bonnie and Clyde-styled track with Johnny Law. Dreamy and drenched in smoky atmospherics, 2010′s
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The new torpedo heels are meant to be worn in the hotel room, the limo and then straight onto the red carpet. Those 
