Making time and space for art

As much as we are bound to deadlines, page views, news cycles and the other perennial challenges of magazine and culture journalism, to work at Lounge is to take the longer view, to contemplate and find an angle that's rarely explored, and to avoid the idea of spectacle for the sake of it.

- SHALINI UMACHANDRAN

And inadvertently, that’s become the thread that runs through all our stories this week.Substance over spectacle is the central theme of our cover story on Mysuru, a city that allows people to embrace their own personalised work ethic. Over the last few years, I've been hearing people talking about relocating to the capital of the erstwhile kingdom of Mysore, drawn by its cosmopolitan culture, relatively clean environment, and slower pace. It's a pace that allows them the time and space to master whatever craft or vocation they choose—whether it’s yoga, writing