01102026-LSTC-01.qxd 30-09-2026 20:00 Page 1 c m y b TRIBUNE Life Spotted... Wamiqa Gabbi attended the trailer launch of the film, Prahaar: The Untold Story of Ujjwal Nikam, in Mumbai. The film is directed by Avinash Arun and produced by Dinesh Vijan under the banner of Maddock Films. LUDHIANA | THURSDAY | 1 OCTOBER 2026 This International Coffee Day, take a sip through the coffee trends that became global obsessions C OFFEE has never been just a morning pick-me-up. Across cultures, it is ritual, comfort, conversation, and increasingly, a social-media sensation. International Coffee Day, celebrated on October 1, is the perfect excuse to look back at five coffees that captured our collective attention, from the lockdown kitchen experiment that became a global obsession to the bold Vietnamese brew now found on café menus everywhere. DALGONA COFFEE — The lockdown star Few drinks captured the mood of the early pandemic quite like Dalgona coffee. Made by whipping together instant coffee, sugar and hot water until it becomes light and frothy, then spooning the mixture over milk, it became a kitchen project for people stuck at home. Its appeal was simple: minimal ingredients, a dramatic transformation and a recipe that looked great on camera. For Indians, it was pure nostalgia — parents hanging out with friends post dinner and children taking turns to beat the coffee! GOLD RUSH! PISTACHIO COFFEE — The green treat Saint Laurent creative director Anthony Vaccarello unveiled a head-to-toe gold collection of slinky dresses and textured tailoring at Paris Fashion Week on Tuesday. The spring/summer 2027 show marked 10 years since Vaccarello’s first show for the Parisian label owned by luxury group Kering, and came amid reports he was set to step down from the role. On a raised runway under a giant gold chandelier, models strode past wearing gold dresses with raised embroidery, gold brocade skirts and jackets with sharp collars, and gold trench coats. — Reuters HOT paint chandigarh EXPLORE MADHUBANI M ADHUBANI Painting Art Date is a creative and cultural experience where you and your partner will explore the traditional Indian folk art of Madhubani. Guided by friendly mentors, you’ll use intricate patterns, natural motifs, and bright colours to create your own masterpiece. On October 4 onwards at Olive Café & Bar, Sector 26. shop ludhiana MANISH MALHOTRA WORLD Toral Pandya’s Creative Dialogue, an exhibition of prints, explores how a place can be experienced not only through its architecture, but also through light, memory, movement, and perception L love kharar PHOTO: PARDEEP TEWARI FAIZAN BHAT LIVE F SPANISH LATTE — Sweet, creamy & café-ready VIETNAMESE COFFEE — Strong, sweet & slow The Spanish latte found its way onto menus and social feeds with its winning combination of espresso, milk and sweetened condensed milk. Richer and sweeter than a conventional latte, it offers a dessert-like coffee experience without being quite a dessert. Its creamy appearance and easy-to-love flavour helped make it a favourite among café-hoppers and social-media coffee enthusiasts. Vietnamese coffee brings something different to the viral-coffee conversation. Traditionally made using a phin, a small metal filter, the coffee slowly drips over sweetened condensed milk, creating a bold, intensely flavoured drink balanced by creamy sweetness. Its iced version, cà phê sa dá, has become a global favourite, finding its way from Vietnamese cafés into specialty coffee shops around the world. When coffee met Biscoff, the result was almost destined for the Internet. Crushed biscuits, Biscoff spread, milk and espresso can transform an everyday coffee into something that looks—and tastes—like a treat. Whether served hot or iced, Biscoff coffee became particularly popular with home baristas experimenting with caféstyle drinks and indulgent toppings. In conversation with space! UDHIANA, this one’s for the fashion & jewellery connoisseurs. The Manish Malhotra world is coming to town and it’s bringing jewellery, luxe prêt & couture with it. Expect statement pieces, iconic craftsmanship and unseen luxury. At Hyatt Regency on October 12-13 from 11am to 7 pm. AIZAN BHAT is a Kashmiri standup comedian based in Dubai, known for his observational comedy, relatable storytelling, and honest humour. Drawing from everyday life, growing up in Kashmir, and the experiences of living abroad, he finds comedy in the little things we all relate to. At North Studio Live, Kharar on October 3, 8 pm onwards. cup! ISTOCK BISCOFF COFFEE — Dessert in a cup Pistachio has had a major moment across food and beverage culture, and coffee was no exception. Pistachio lattes combine espresso and milk with pistachio syrup or cream, often finished with a dusting of crushed nuts. Their palegreen colour makes them instantly photogenic, while the nutty, slightly sweet flavour gives the familiar latte a more luxurious twist. WHAT’S Raise a Akhil Kumar What happens when a building becomes more than a backdrop for art? At Chandigarh’s Le Corbusier Centre, a shadow becomes a surface and an unfamiliar space begins to look strangely familiar. These shifting visual conversations form the heart of Toral Pandya’s Creative Dialouge, an exhibition of prints created during her 2026 artist residency at the centre. Pandya, who also received the Lalit Kala Akademi Painter Award in 2020, exhibits her work to explore how a place can be experienced not only through its architecture, but also through light, memory, movement and perception. The exhibition explores the idea of ‘formlessness’, where forms are not presented as solid or clearly defined entities, but continually emerge through memory and experience. Inspired by the architectural environment of Le Corbusier’s studio, the prints respond to changing light, surfaces, textures, objects and shadows through lines, impressions and layers. The architecture becomes less a subject to be documented and more a point of departure — an environment that prompts observation, interpretation and experimentation. As an artist who grew up in Vadodara, Pandya’s work is rooted in her engagement c m y b with nature and an ongoing dialogue with her surroundings. She does not restrict herself to a single medium, allowing the subtle nuances of an environment to find expression through different materials and processes. In her practice, the visual and the material constantly inform one another, creating possibilities that may not have been apparent at the beginning of the process. Her studio practice begins with a close observation of everyday experiences and the conscious encounters that shape her visual world. These experiences gradually find their way onto paper through sketching, writing, collecting references and research. Rather than treating these as separate exercises, she allows them to overlap and accumulate, creating layers of thoughts, impressions, memories and visual fragments. It is within this layered process that her ‘formless forms’ begin to emerge. Drawn from a wide range of references, these shapes are continuously reworked, fragmented, transformed and manipulated until they acquire an artistic language of their own. What may begin as an instinctive mark or an everyday observation slowly evolves into a form that exists somewhere between the familiar and the abstract. For Tarol Pandya, the act of making is therefore as important as the finished image. She says, “I want my work to be a living experience for the viewer, rather than merely a scene to look at. I want them to sense the stillness and movement within my visuals i.e., the invisible noise that exists between the two and to embrace the formless spaces between shapes, rather than searching for fixed definitions or recognisable images.” The exhibition concludes today. From a lockdown experiment to elaborate café creations, these coffees show how quickly a drink can become a trend when flavour, visual appeal and a little bit of ritual come together. After all, in the age of social media, sometimes the journey from one good cup to the next big coffee obsession is only a few clicks away… CHAT UP GAME OF THRONESMOVIE ANNOUNCED The Game of Thrones franchise is heading to the big screen with Game of Thrones: Aegon’s Conquest, the first feature film set in the fictional world of Westeros, which will hit theatres worldwide on June 6, 2029. Owen Harris, who has directed episodes of HBO’s A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, will direct the film. KOFFEE WITH KARAN TO END Karan Johar on Wednesday announced that he is ending his popular celebrity chat show, Koffee With Karan, with its upcoming ninth season, set to premiere on JioHotstar on October 14. “There are some journeys you don’t plan to end, you simply know, somewhere deep within you, when it is time to let them go,” he said. STALLONE REFLECTS ON ROCKY Fifty years after Sylvester Stallone pulled off one of Hollywood’s alltime long shots with Rocky, the star says he still identifies with the character. His memoir Steps arrives less than two months before a fictionalised and semi-authorised version of his story, Peter Farrelly’s I Play Rocky arrives in theatres.