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Launched in 2014, PhotoSparks is a weekly feature from YourStory, with photographs that celebrate the spirit of creativity and innovation. In the earlier 880 posts, we featured an art festival, cartoon gallery. world music festival, telecom expo, millets fair, climate change expo, wildlife conference, startup festival, Diwali rangoli, and jazz festival.The Museum of Art and Photography (MAP) is showcasing two outstanding exhibitions titled Vaanyerum Vizhuthugal (meaning ‘Roots that Reach for the Sky’ in Tamil) and Ticket Tika Chaap (art of the trademark in Indo-British textile trade). See our coverage of earlier events at this popular Bengaluru venue here.The photography exhibition was originally part of the Chennai Photo Biennale 2024-2025 and is curated by Jaisingh…

It’s hard to believe, but it’s been more than 30 years since moviegoers first watched Forrest Gump sit down on that Georgia bus stop bench and utter a phrase that would go on to become one of the most iconic lines in cinema history. You know the one. Say it with us now:  “My momma always said, ‘Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.'” Audiences immediately fell in love with Tom Hanks’ Forrest as they watched his fantastical life unspool in the Robert Zemeckis-directed flick, taking him from one incredible moment in history…

Over the past few months, with the Brad Pitt movie F1 approaching and then overtaking the box office —  it stunningly is hitting $100 million in just its second weekend of release —  those of us who are longtime fans of the sport have sought to explain the appeal to American friends who are F1-skeptical. What is it that makes you so enthused, they ask. Is it the exotic locales? The death-defying speeds? The high-end branding? The gear fetishization? All of these factors compel a little bit, of course. But the real secret to why Formula One fans devour the sport, as…

Apple Music has revealed that Ed Sheeran’s 2017 single, “Shape of You,” is its most played song. In celebration of the streaming platform’s 10th year anniversary, Apple Music has been revealing its top 500 most-streamed songs. The final batch of songs were revealed Saturday night, with The Weeknd, Drake and Post Malone also finishing in the top five. Sheeran’s “Shape of You” reached No. 1 on Apple Music’s Top Pop Songs chart in at least one country on 1,800 days of the last decade, according to a release, and hit No. 1 in at least one country on the platform’s…

If you haven’t followed the rise of Lithuanian cinema on the global film festival circuit in recent years, you may not know the name of young filmmaker and cinematographer Vytautas Katkus – yet. But when the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) recently unveiled that his feature directorial debut, The Visitor, would world premiere as part of the Crystal Globe Competition of its 59th edition, the consensus among insiders of the independent and arthouse film scene was that this amounted to a major coup for the Czech fest! “It’s the end of summer. Danielius, a new father in his mid-30s, leaves…

In the early days of packaging, a box was simply a vessel designed for protection and delivery. But in this day and age of digital transformation, packaging has become a smart, interactive interface between consumers and brands. The shift from plain barcodes to QR codes and now to AI-powered labels is not merely a technology revolution, it’s a revolution in how we interact with products, provide transparency, and deliver trust at scale.I recall to this day a discussion with a young businessperson at a shipping conference, who told me, “My product is high-end, but how do I get my packaging…

More than 50 years after first forming in Birmingham, England, Ozzy Osbourne and his pioneering metal band Black Sabbath are finally ready to retire from playing and making music.  Osbourne and his manager wife Sharon planned a grand culmination of sorts, gathering the biggest names in rock and metal to pay homage to the band’s influence during an all-day celebration and livestreamed event. Other seminal groups have been guilty of going back on their word after calling it quits, but Saturday’s show felt like both the band and the music community put (a very heavy) lid on the band’s legacy,…

Hello,The fallout of Jane Street’s stock manipulations is only just beginning.The National Stock Exchange played a pivotal role in detecting and tracing the New York-based hedge fund’s high-frequency trading patterns, which artificially inflated and crashed the prices of Bank Nifty constituent stocks. The resulting price distortions benefitted Jane Street’s parallel short positions in index options.However, retail investors are nursing staggering losses as Jane Street’s sophisticated trading strategies helped it rake in profits exceeding an estimated Rs 43,000 crore. While SEBI has impounded a portion of the profits as ‘unlawful gains’, the spotlight is now on high-frequency trading platforms that use…

For decades, marketing was about reaching the masses with broad messages aimed at the largest possible audience. Today, the game has fundamentally changed. Success now depends on capturing the exact moment when a consumer’s need, context, and emotions align, creating an opportunity for meaningful connection and action. This is not just a tactical shift; it reflects a deeper transformation in how brands build trust, relevance, and resonance.Powering this shift is a new generation of marketing technology. In 2025, martech is no longer a collection of isolated tools, it has matured into an intelligent ecosystem that brings together artificial intelligence, data…

Former Supermen Henry Cavill and Tyler Hoechlin showed support for David Corenswet as he took on the renowned role in James Gunn’s new Superman, but the two actors were reluctant to give him any explicit advice on how to tackle the part.  At the London premiere of the DC Studios film, the actor revealed in an interview with Heart that he’d spoken with both Cavill and Hoechlin, but both of the former Superman stars didn’t give him “any tips” on how to approach his film.  “I had the pleasure of exchanging letters with two previous Supermans, Henry Cavill and Tyler…