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J'AIPUR is an elegant East-meets-West lifestyle magazine published by Rupi Sood.

J'AIPUR is an independent and international publication telling East-meets-West stories about people and places that inspire. The magazine is produced by a small team of designers, photographers, researchers and writers from around the globe with headquarters in New York City. We tell stories that are deep-rooted in exploration, creativity, and the cultural connection between East and West. Throug

h the people and places that we feature, we hope to inspire and encourage our readers to explore their own aspirations. The jewel-like pink city of Jaipur (India) is our muse for her beauty, culture, history and gypset spirit, but the publication is truly a crossroad where East and West, old and new, converge to reveal interesting stories along the way. J'AIPUR can be read online and special limited-edition print issues are also available for purchase. We hope the stories we share will inspire you to create, contemplate, dream, and travel a little more in your own lives. Feel free to connect with us if you like what you see, or wish to submit your own work. Email: [email protected]
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01/27/2026

Easy Slow Cooker Dal Recipe

INGREDIENTS
1½ cups red lentils (masoor dal)
½ teaspoon turmeric (haldi)
1½ teaspoons salt, or more to taste
2 tablespoons ghee or vegetable oil
1 teaspoon cumin seeds (jeera)
1 large yellow onion, finely chopped
¼ teaspoon crushed red pepper (mirch), or more to taste
¼ teaspoon asafoetida (hing) - optional
1 tablespoon each of garlic and ginger paste - optional
Chopped fresh cilantro for topping

PREPARATION
Rinse lentils in water several times until water is clear.

Add to slow cooker with 4 cups water and a dollop of ghee or butter.

Cook on high until the lentils are
tender, for about 4 hours.

Meanwhile, in a 12 inch skillet, warm the ghee or oil over medium-high heat and add cumin seed. Let them sizzle for a few seconds.

Then add the onion and cook, stirring constantly, until the onion gets very deeply browned but not burnt, 10 to 15 minutes.

Add ginger and garlic paste while stirring.

Then add all the spices and mix.
Pour the tadka (onions and spice mixture) into the dal just before it is fully cooked or when it’s fully cooked.

Mix, taste and add more salt and/or
crushed red pepper, if you like. Use lemon juice as salt alternative.

Top with cilantro before serving with roti, naan or rice.

11/29/2025

The Maharani Reverso of 1936 is one of the earliest bespoke expressions of the Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso—commissioned for Indian royalty and reflecting the watch’s origins on the polo fields of British India. What began as a functional solution for protecting the dial during matches became an Art Deco icon with a story that spans continents.

During a recent visit to the Madison Avenue Jaeger-LeCoultre boutique, I explored the evolution of the Reverso from its early innovation to today’s contemporary designs, such as the Reverso One Duetto, with its day-to-evening duality and the intricate Precious Flowers Métiers Rares model, crafted using enamelling, gem-setting, and lacquering techniques inside the Manufacture.

It’s remarkable to see how a watch created in response to a moment in India’s polo history continues to inspire new interpretations nearly a century later.

Read the full story on J’AIPUR digital.

https://www.jai-pur.com/journal_entry/jaeger-lecoultre-reverso-india-switzerland/

11/01/2025

From UWS to Chelsea, here are five shows to see now:

The New York Sari (UWS)
A vivid portrait of New York’s South Asian diaspora told through the sari—textile, identity, and style.

Husain & Herwitz: A Beautiful Friendship (NoHo)
Modern master M. F. Husain in dialogue with the Herwitz collection and a seminal patron-artist relationship.

Hiroshi Senju: Physical/Metaphysical (Chelsea)
Monumental waterfall paintings that merge nihonga tradition with meditative minimalism and light.

Lee Seung Jio: Nucleus in Resonance (Chelsea)
Optical, precise abstractions from a key figure of postwar Korean modernism.

Reza Derakshani: Crowns & Leaves: The Blue Season (Upper East Side)
Lush, lyrical canvases where folklore, memory, and color fields meet.

Save this guide, share to Stories, and tag with your visit.

(All images courtesy of respective galleries.)

06/23/2025

For those who know John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) the celebrated portraitist of Belle Époque high society, his Moroccan period may come as a revelation. During his travels through Spain and North Africa in 1879–80, Sargent immersed himself in the architecture, textures, and atmospheres of the region—producing some of the most experimental and luminous works of his early career.

Currently on view at ‘Sargent and Paris’ at the through August 3rd, here are a few highlights from his North African studies that blend aestheticism, fantasy, and fleeting light.

1️⃣ Fumée d’Ambre Gris (Smoke of Ambergris), 1880, Oil on canvas
A veiled Moroccan woman perfumes herself with incense of rare ambergris. Painted in Sargent’s Paris studio after a two-month stay in Tangier, this white-on-white composition captivated critics at the 1880 Salon with its mystery and beauty.

2️⃣ Moorish Buildings in Sunlight, 1879–80, Oil on wood
Sunlight dances across the vernacular architecture of Tétouan. Sargent was fascinated by the interplay of light, shadow, and Islamic ornament—note the glowing surfaces, horseshoe arches, and fading whitewashed walls.

3️⃣ Alhambra, Patio de los Arrayanes, 1879, Oil on canvas
A sun-soaked, plein-air study of the Court of the Myrtles at the Alhambra in Granada. Here, Sargent forgoes intricate detail to capture shimmering reflections and architectural grandeur with loose, expressive brushwork.

From incense-filled interiors to marble courtyards and sunlit tiles, Sargent’s works from this period pulse with a sensual, dreamlike energy—rooted in observation, but filtered through his unique artistic lens.

Let me know if you visit the exhibition and what you think!

05/05/2025

(Re)Generations brings together three contemporary artists in dialogue with centuries-old works from Asia Society Museum’s Rockefeller Collection. Rina Banerjee, Byron Kim, and Howardena Pindell respond to ancient objects not only through medium and form, but through memory, migration, and lived experience.

🔗 Read the full story in our latest chapter (5) — https://www.jai-pur.com/journal_entry/regenerations-asia-society/
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On view at through August 10, 2025.

11/02/2024

Little pleasures lately (October edition) 🤎…
1.) Stepping into the lobby of the Plaza Hotel and being enveloped by timeless beauty and elegance.
2.) Relishing every last bite of a delicious barfi tarte at Indian Accent .
3.) Watching Central Park transform into a shimmering golden canvas, celebrating the beauty of the season.
4.) Indulging in a creamy cup of hot chocolate at on Lexington Avenue, making it a perfect stop on crisp autumn days.
5.) Exploring the thoughtfully curated Quarters design showroom, a feast for the senses.
6.) Admiring exquisite plate ware at the new Ganori Café at the Bergdorf Goodman department store.
7.) Attending enchanting fall ballet performances at Lincoln Center .
8.) Taking a break during the workday at favourite midtown coffeeshop .
9.) Gallery hopping in Tribeca to discover new inspiring exhibitions.
10-11.) Enjoying fresh mint tea amidst the serene surroundings of the lovely .
12.) Book shopping at the beautiful new Assouline boutique on Madison Avenue.
13.) Appreciating the refreshed and refined spaces of the iconic Hotel.
14.) Wearing new shoes in a luxurious shade of chocolate brown, the colour of the season.

10/09/2024

I came across this incredibly interesting exhibition whilst gallery-hopping in Tribeca this afternoon. The installation, titled Sound Lines, is by New York-based artist Aki Sasamoto (b. 1980, Kanagawa, Japan) and on view at Bortolami Gallery until Oct. 26th. It’s comprised of oversized, handmade fishing lures suspended from a network of motorized springs. If you scroll through the slideshow, you will hear the sounds.

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Each of Sasamoto’s suspended lures houses a kitchen tool; a knife, a strainer, a whisk, a spatula, which quake at seemingly random intervals, triggered at the turn of a motor. The effect is a choreography of catalytic movements set to a metallic soundscape as the coils zip and the kitchen implements rattle within. Historically, sounding lines are among the oldest navigational instruments. Composed of a rope and a heavy weight, the simple tool has been used to measure the depths beneath a ship for hundreds of years. In the gallery, however, Sasamoto’s sounding lines might quantify the profundity of interpersonal relationships rather than measure the depth of water. Situated between sculpture and performance, the constellation of lures in the gallery, tethered via supple springs, allude to the physical and psychological distance between things, people, and places, relative to each individual position.

Fishing lures might be categorized into two types: those that look like a fish, and those that move like one. Within the niche fishing culture, an aphorism says that the first type of lure (conspicuous and flashy) is said to catch only fishermen—an apt metaphor for function over form, substance over style, quality over quantity. For the artist, it is the latter category of lures—those with life-like movement (or action) that matters. The same might be said of relationships. Sasamoto’s trembling, tenuous network manifests how an action causes a reaction, how each lure or locum might be affected and how it might appear.

Notes 🖊️ via Bortolami Gallery

09/28/2024

It’s officially gallery-hopping season in New York. Here are some photos from the opening exhibition I attended the other day at Aicon Gallery featuring ‘The World is a Loose Stitch’ by artist Ruby Chisti which is on view through October 26, 2024.

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“Chishti focuses on a motif that has permeated her practice over the years: her cloth women. Made from assemblages of stuffing and recycled pantyhose, these women are lovingly created, allowed to exist in natural shapes and poses, relaxed and resting–the hand of their maker driven by an unmistakable veneration of womanhood and the female form.

The cloth women in this new series rest on sofas, type at laptops, and even hold miniature cloth children against their shoulders. As they engage in these seemingly mundane tasks, however, they each wear their own ornate helmet, a shiny signifier of their strength. Chishti affectionately refers to these figures as her “everyday warriors.”

Her female warriors highlight the invisibility of women’s labor. By crowning them with these helmets, the power in these acts become clear. Chishti has long sought to honor the overlooked and underrepresented women who have preceded her. The homemakers, the seamstresses, and the caretakers–women are constantly supporting the world around them. When they see a tear, they patch it up; when they see a loose stitch, they sew it back together. Using a traditionally domestic medium, Chishti emphasizes the ways that invisible women’s work actually keeps the world going.”

Notes 🖊️ via Aicon Gallery.

09/22/2024

Here’s a small selection of works I recently saw as part of the Asia Art Week exhibition ‘Francis Newton Souza: The London Years, Masterworks from the Collection of Navin Kumar’ assembled over the course of more than forty years by Navin Kumar, one of the first Indian gallerists based in the United States.

The exhibition focused on works created by Francis Newton Souza (1924-2002) between 1949 and 1967, the almost two decade period when the artist was based in London, which came to define his career and cement his status as India’s most legendary modernist.

Goa-born Souza was expelled from school twice as a youth before ultimately deciding to become an artist. Opting to join the company of other radical artists and revolutionaries, he joined India’s Communist party in 1947 and co-founded the Progressive Artists’ Group (PAG). However, Souza quickly grew frustrated with the lack of patronage and aesthetic identity in India. Looking for acceptance, he left his native country in 1949 bound for London.

For nearly two decades, Souza would remain in the English capital. It was during those years that, through challenge and hardship, the artist would define his career and cement his legacy as one of India’s most celebrated modern painters.

🖊️ Notes via Christie’s

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J’AIPUR Journal is an international arts and culture publication telling East-meets-West stories about people and places that inspire. It was created by Rupi Sood who has spent more than a decade working in the publishing industry as a writer and editor. In addition to leading the creative and editorial direction of J’AIPUR, she completed her Master’s Degree in Contemporary Art from the Sotheby’s Institute of Art in New York City in 2020 and provides digital marketing and social media consulting to clients working in the arts and design industries.

The J’AIPUR magazine promotes the tenets of quality journalism and highlights the work of emerging and established creatives who have a connection to the East. It is being produced by a small team of designers, photographers, researchers and writers from around the globe with headquarters in New York. The jewel-like pink city of Jaipur (India) serves as a muse for her beauty, history, and gypset spirit, but the magazine is truly a crossroad where East and West, old and new, creativity and culture, converge to reveal interesting stories along the way.

The print magazine is published bi-annually by J’AIPUR Creative Studio in Brooklyn, New York and printed in Canada by Hemlock Printers Ltd., one of the leading printing companies in the world. Digital editions are updated on a continuous basis throughout the year.

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