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This teenage designer is weaving urban story from traditional yarns
Visakhapatnam:
At a time when the who’s who among Indian designers are returning to the grassroots and trying to revive traditional weaves and ancient weaving techniques, a youngster from the city is working hard to promote Andhra and Telangana weaves and put Visakhapatnam on the fashion map.
Aaron Borthwick (18) designs clothes using local weaves, using material from villages such as Bobbili, Mangalagiri, Chirala and others.
Some of his designs have been used by actors in the film industry of Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Aaron, with his own team of traditional weavers, is trying to infuse a contemporary charm to the traditional designs.
Son of a merchant navy officer Captain Richard Borthwick and mother Supraja, who works for the terminally-ill patients at St Joseph’s Hospice, Aaron competed his schooling from Visakha Valley School last year and aspires to pursue fashion designing.
But Aaron did not set out to be a designer. He said, “It was not a planned career move. I was supposed to pursue International Business in Barcelona. With a few months to go, I started designing clothes using the local weaves from Bobbili, Uppada, Mangalagiri, Narayanpet, Pochampally and Chirala. My interest in travelling took me to villages where I started picking up handloom material for my clothing brand. I try to bring a contemporary charm to traditional handloom material. I find it encouraging to be able to take the traditional weaves to exhibitions in other states,” said Aaron.
It was during one such exhibition in Chennai in December 2017, when Tamil actor Aathmika, notices Aaron’s work and shared it with other actors on social media. Now, Aaron’s designs are worn by the likes of Manjima Mohan, Janani Iyer, Aahana Krishnan, Mehreen Kaur from Malayalam, Telugu and Tamil film industries.
source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / Home> News> City News> Visakhapatnam News / by Sulogna Mehta / May 15th, 2018
City skater Riya Saboo for South Korea
She will take part in Asian roller skating championship
City skater Riya Saboo is all set to take part in the Asian roller skating championship to be held in South Korea from September 4 to 14, according V P. Siddhartha Public School principal L.S. Ram Babu here on Tuesday.
The talented teenager, a Class X student of the school, is presently attending a training camp at Ahmedabad after completing her selection trials in the first week of May. “Riya will be taking part in frees style and pair skating along with Jaswanth Bathina,” he added.
Mr. Ram Babu said 15-year-old Riya, who started her tryst with skating in the age of seven, has so far participated in two world championships in Italy and China along with an Asian event in China. “She has so far clinched 14 national medals, including eight gold, and over 25 State medals that included 14 gold,” he said.
Synthetic rink
Roller Skating Andhra Pradesh secretary Durga Prasad said skaters from other Asian countries were in an advantageous position as they mastered skating on synthetic rink from the Day One. “For young Riya it will be a challenging task,” he said.
Hes said Vijayawada was yet to get a rink of international standards forcing talented skaters to look for advanced training in other places.
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> States> Andhra Pradesh / by Special Correspondent / Vijayawada – May 23rd, 2018
Child archer Aarush creates national record
A champion in the making, says Volga academy chairman
Archery in Vijayawada received a boost as the four-year-old kid Malapati Maruthi Aarush Reddy creating a national record in the individual archery segment by shooting more number of arrows in the least time from 15 metres distance on 122-cm target face.
The attempt, held at Volga Archery Academy in the presence of Indian Book of Records and Asia Books of Records adjudicator Biswadeep Roy, was witnessed by a good number of archers, parents and media personnel as young Aarush armed with Indian bow and wooden arrows, completed his mission with élan.
He slammed 118 arrows in 14.40 seconds from 15-meter distance on 122-cm target face thus creating a new record. “Aarush successfully completed 100 arrows and later slammed 18 more within the specified time to create a record,” said Mr Roy, who presented the citation on behalf of India Book of records.
“Both the parents and grandparents of Aarush, all four practising physicians, deserve a huge pat on their backs, for their untiring commitment to helping the kid reach his first major milestone in archery. He is practising in the academy for the past eight months. When I saw the inborn talent in him I decided to train him this feat just to help him grow as a professional archer confidently,” said Volga Archery Academy chairman Cherukuri Satyanarayana.
Aarush’s parents and grandparents are well established in Narasaraopet but for the sake of the kid’s s tryst with archery, they rented out an apartment in Kanuru for the convenience of training.
Mr. Roy hailed Volga Archery Academy for its contributions and pointed out that the academy was fast emerging as a base for kid archers to hog the limelight at the national level by taking a shot at the records.
”A few years ago, Dolly Shivani created national records and later shot into world fame as documentaries were as made for international film festivals I wish to see more kids coming forward to take a shot at the national records”.
He said Aarush come out with flying colours in the qualifying rounds as he fulfilled the criteria of shooting 70 arrows from the distance of 15-metres on 122-cm target face.
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> States> Andhra Pradesh / by Special Correspondent / Vijayawada – May 21st, 2018
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Writer Peddibhotla Subbaramaiah no more
His writings reflected travails of middle class
Noted Telugu writer Peddibhotla Subbaramaiah passed away at a private hospital here on Friday. He was 79.
Mr. Subbaramaiah won many awards, including that of the Sahitya Akademi, for his stories and a few novels some of which got translated into English.
He was suffering from a liver disease.
Mr. Subbaramaiah, who shot into fame with his compilation of stories titled ‘Peddibhotla Subbaramaiah Kadhalu,’ was born in Guntur in December 1938 and had worked as a Telugu lecturer in Andhra Loyola College in Vijayawada for nearly four decades.
He became an accomplished writer under the tutelage of Viswanatha Satyanarayana.
CM condoles death
Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu expressed condolence on the death of Mr. Subbaramaiah and said his demise was an irreparable loss to Telugu writers.
Krishna District Writers’ Association President G.V. Purnachand told The Hindu that he was fortunate to have moved closely with Mr. Subbaramaiah for nearly four decades.
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> States> Andhra Pradesh / by Staff Reporter / Vijayawada – May 19th, 2018