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Street Art Istanbul, an independent organisation at the heart of the city’s burgeoning new street art movement, shows us Istanbul’s best and brightest outdoor displays.
Istanbul’s street art scene is just like the rest of the city; dynamic, interchangeable and unpredictable. Street art culture came to life in Istanbul during the 1980’s with the emergence of hip hop and the b-boy movement. From humble beginnings, it...

Ghandi’s Historic role in India’s struggle for independence has been commemorated the world over. But 64 years after the birth of the modern state, his political rival and the man who wrote India’s constitution, Dr Ambedkar, is little known outside his...

The poster girl of modern engineering, Roma Agrawal, talks steel, sexism and skyscrapers and tells us how to scale the heights of architecture and smash the glass ceiling.
Not many structural engineers get the chance to star in an advert with Annie Lennox and Rita Ora. And that’s not even the start of it. Roma Agrawal, engineering’s new poster girl and role model, has the kind of extra-curricular credentials that put most...

The businessman known as the Mad chemist of Quilombo, Rodrigo Conci, on the marriage of mysticism and medicine, and why it’s important to take a personal approach to create the perfect prescription.
“The fear of imminent death is a terrible thing.” But for some it’s also a galvanising one. It certainly was for local businessman Rodrigo Conci. Known in his hometown of Quilombo as The Mad Chemist, Conci is a man on a mission. Or rather many missions...