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DATE NIGHT IN HONG KONG WITH QUINARY, QUINARY, HONG KONG IS FEATURED ON ASIA’S 50 BEST BAR LIST FOR 2024

3 CITY BAR TAKEOVER SERIES

BENGALURU 4TH| MUMBAI 6TH| DELHI 7TH SEPTEMBER 2024

MUMBAI, India, Sept. 5, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — All Things Nice with the support of the Hong Kong Tourism Board are happy to present a guest shift bar takeover series in India with Quinary from Hong Kong, one of the world’s leading bars and featured on Asia’s 50 Best Bar list. Quinary will give us a glimpse of Hong Kong’s vibrant bar scene and a preview of the Hong Kong Wine and Dine Festival that takes place in October.

Kai & Ganesh Gurung from Quinary will showcase their fine cocktails at three of the finest bars in India.

Hong Kong Wine & Dine Festival:

Wine & Dine Festival  – 23 – 27 October 2024 is Hong Kong’s most anticipated annual culinary event – set against the breathtaking Victoria Harbour skyline. This year, the Festival will be extended by one day, becoming a five-day, open-air culinary party. The Hong Kong Wine & Dine Festival 2023 edition at Central Harbourfront drew over 140,000 culinary enthusiasts. Wineries and breweries from around the world brought a selection of liquor assortments, while local culinary masters served up their delectable creations and signature dishes, there were country pavilions and 250+ Wine & Food Booths. 

The Festival features Celebrity Chefs & Foodie Tour to experience gastronomy excellence – inviting World’s 50 Best Restaurants and showcase of Best of the best Hong Kong dining experiences. Other key highlights include dozens of food stalls serving up epicurean delights, including about 10 award-winning restaurants that will showcase their culinary mastery in a designated gourmet area, an exclusive cocktail lounge in front of Victoria Harbour for the perfect setting to enjoy signature serves expertly designed by renowned mixologists and an exciting programme of spectacular music performances throughout the five-day festival.

The Festival will also provide the perfect launching pad for “Taste Around Town”, a citywide culinary celebration across Hong Kong over the entire month of November, with special menus and offers that leave everyone’s palates wanting more.

Quinary Hong Kong – No.26 on Asia’s 50 Best Bars 2024:

Taking a lead from the inventive approach to food pioneered by the likes of Ferran Adria at his El Bulli restaurant, Quinary brings to cocktails the same food-science approach that understands why certain aromas, flavours, and textures work together. Using inventive culinary approaches to mixology, Quinary seeks to engage all five senses –what we call Multisensory Mixology. With internationally acclaimed mixologist Antonio Lai, also Diageo World Class 2015 Hong Kong & Macau Champion at the helm,  Quinary has consistently been voted as one of the World’s 50 Best Bars (2013-2017 & 2021) & Asia’s 50 Best Bars (2016 – 2024).

KAI NG  – Quick-witted like a local Hong Konger, and smart like a German with an unencumbered sense of humour. “My favourite cocktail is the Martinez. Since that’s my very first classic drink I made it when I started my career”.

Venues : The event series is hosted at ZLB23 at The Leela Palace Bengaluru, AER at Four Seasons Hotel Mumbai, and The Library Bar at Leela Palace New Delhi. 

Cocktails :

  • Gents O Clock – made With Codigo 1530 Blanco, Madeira Rainwater, Coffee Bean Maple Syrup, and Campari Cream
  • Wax made with Flor De Canas 12YO, sweet vermouth, cedar wood tincture and pine tart spray
  • Earl Grey Martini made with Sabatini Gin, Cointreau, and elderflower juice
  • Wood made with Fandango Mezcal infused with pine, Oak sous vide Bourbon, Bitter Truth Falernum spice, and Cocchi Americano Mix Gum

The series is supported by the Hong Kong Tourism Board and one of India’s leading importers of Wines & Spirits –  Anggel’s Share LLP.

Schedule For The Takeover Series :

Bangalore4th September – ZLB23 at The Leela Palace Bengaluru

Mumbai – 6th September – Aer at Four Seasons

Delhi – 7th September- The Library Bar at The Leela Palace Delhi

Timing – 8 pm onwards

ABOUT HOTELS :



About ZLB23, A Kyoto Speakeasy Bar – Awarded India’s Best Bar, ranked #40 at Asia’s 50 Best Bars:

Travelling through time, Zia is bringing her mystery to a secret hideaway – ZLB 23. The hideout’s surreal decor and theatrical concoctions evoke an absinthe dream. With its hidden entrance, vintage décor and speakeasy style, it transports guests back in time to the era of Prohibition. This urbane space reveals an atmosphere of transcendental glamour where gatherings are held over magnetic music, remarkable dining, and prohibition cocktails.

The place offers fabled food, curated to reveal the lost recipes from the East. You’ll find that the ingredients, measurements, and methods unite to tell a flavourful narrative buried in time. The skilled mixologists have crafted a menu of prohibition cocktails, each with its own unique flavour and story. These might sound classic but are futuristic in taste, look and sense such as the Paleman, inspired by the well-known Halloween monster, or Kyoto Sunrise which pays homage to the Land of the Rising Sun. And for those who want a taste of the good life, the menu also features a selection of rare and premium spirits. The last of the order but standing taller still is magnetic music, relaying a firm promise of original and curated music, making it a noteworthy destination for events that you would not want to miss. Instagram – ZLB23



About AER:

Perched high above the city, AER is the iconic rooftop bar of Four Seasons Hotel Mumbai, offering scenic views of Mumbai’s skyline and bay with fresh Art Deco-inspired décor. This chic open-air bar, reimagined as a yacht club in the sky, includes a retractable Libart system with an all-glass roof that closes in minutes, ensuring the bar remains operational even during the heaviest downpours. Brunch on a casual Sunday admiring the beautiful skyline of the city, indulge in an evening tipple witnessing breath-taking sunsets, or dive into the city’s vibrant nightlife with the flavour-packed, exclusive AER Gin crafted just for this stunning venue.

About The Library Bar at The Leela Palace New Delhi :

The Library Bar at The Leela Palace New Delhi is an experiential cocktail bar that believes in offering immersive experiences to its patrons. Stepping into The Library Bar, guests are enveloped in an ambiance that effortlessly marries timeless elegance with a high-energy setting. It serves as a sanctuary for connoisseurs who seek the epitome of refinement while seeking cocktails that one wants to come back to time and time again.

Considered one of the best cocktail bars in the city, the interiors of the bar have been inspired by the bygone era of Chesterfield chairs, dark wood paneled settings, a warm fireplace, leather interiors and a collection of rare leather-bound first edition novels that are handpicked from all over the world. All these elements, combined with the cocktail menu at The Library Bar, has allowed the bar to evolve into a high-energy space and a one-of-a-kind cocktail destination in the city, over the years.

About Hong Kong Tourism Board:



The Hong Kong Tourism Board (HKTB) is a government-subvented body tasked to market and promote Hong Kong as a travel destination worldwide and enhance visitors’ experience once they arrive. These include making recommendations to the Government and other relevant bodies on the range and quality of visitor facilities.

The HKTB’s missions are to maximise the social and economic contribution made by tourism to the community of Hong Kong and to consolidate Hong Kong’s position as a unique, world-class, and most desired destination.

About All Things Nice:



All Things Nice (ATN) is a platform to introduce and educate the Indian consumer on all things nice ranging from wines, cognacs, single malts and gourmet food. ATN works with corporates in the financial and luxury sectors in their client engagement and client acquisition activities through innovative events and services. The company also offers consultancy to restaurants, hotels, retail chains, airlines and Indian and international brands in the luxury food and drink sector. The company also pioneered the prestigious annual ‘Indian Wine Consumer’s Choice Awards’ a platform for consumers to rank Indian and international wines according to their choice, irrespective of brand and price.

All Things Nice is spearheaded by the renowned Wine & Spirits Expert, Writer and Judge – Nikhil Agarwal who has raised the bar for wine, spirits and luxury gastronomical events in India. The company is also affiliated with The Wine Cellar by All Things Nice and retails bespoke wines & spirits in India. This luxury wine store is prominently located in Mumbai’s prestigious neighborhood, Malabar Hill.

Nikhil is a partner at Anggel’s Share LLP – a wine and spirits import company that is now responsible for bringing to India wine, sake and spirit brands of high repute. All Things Nice is the Co-organizer of ProWine Mumbai, a subsidiary of ProWein, the world’s largest wine and spirits exhibition. ProWine Mumbai is the largest platform for wine and spirit brands to showcase their products and services to potential buyers and consumers

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Reliance Digital Launches ‘Baaptaa’, a Father’s Day Campaign Celebrating the Many Expressions of Fatherhood

MUMBAI, India, June 20, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Reliance Digital has launched ‘Baaptaa’, a Father’s Day campaign to celebrate the many expressions of fatherhood. Built around a simple cultural observation, while “Maa ki Mamta” has long been a part of India’s collective vocabulary, there has never been a word that captures the distinct ways fathers express love, the campaign introduces ‘Baaptaa’ as a tribute to the many shades of fatherhood.

Conceptualised as an original music-led campaign, Baaptaa celebrates fathers not as idealised figures, but as they are experienced in everyday life, protective, dependable, emotional, quirky, practical, occasionally embarrassing, and always present. Through a relatable narrative, the campaign acknowledges the countless ways fathers care for their families, often through actions rather than words.

Watch Video: https://youtu.be/9XyUsJB33Ds?si=PM67vhxrzth1JEkz 

At the heart of the campaign is an original music video told from a father’s perspective, capturing the different roles he plays across life’s moments and milestones. The film brings to life the humour, warmth and unspoken affection that characterise father-child relationships, while giving a name to a form of love that many recognise but few have articulated.

The campaign stems from a simple insight: while motherhood has often found expression through familiar phrases and popular references, the unique language of fatherhood has remained largely undefined. Baaptaa seeks to fill that gap by creating a term that reflects the everyday gestures, practical wisdom and quiet sacrifices that fathers make.

Father’s Day communication often leans into familiar emotional territory, but Reliance Digital’s campaign celebrates fathers in a way that feels more culturally authentic and relatable. The idea for ‘Baaptaa’ came from a simple observation — mother’s love has been immortalised in a number of heartfelt, emotional songs, there needed to be an anthem dedicated to dad’s love. And thus was born Baaptaa – a love language that is often awkward, practical, protective, humorous and deeply felt, even if rarely verbalised. It’s a celebration of fatherhood in all its wonderfully imperfect forms immortalized by a song that you won’t be able to stop humming.

Shop for the widest range of electronics at Reliance Digital and thank your father for his Baaptaa.

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Harper Collins Publishers India is Delighted to Announce the Recent Publication of ‘People We Love’ by Preeti Shenoy

NEW DELHI, June 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — HarperCollins Publishers India is delighted to share the recent publication of People We Love by bestselling author Preeti Shenoy. At once tender and sharp, this collection of stories offers intimate, truthful and relatable portraits of the people we cherish, the ones we lose, and the people we become.

ABOUT THE BOOK

The people we love never truly leave our story…

In these tender yet piercing stories, Preeti Shenoy returns to some of her most beloved characters to reveal who they were before they appeared in her bestselling novels It’s All in the Planets and The One You Cannot Have.

Aniket, a coder, carries the weight of a longing for Trisha that he cannot bring himself to act on. Nidhi abandons her corporate life to teach pottery, only to discover that clay is far more forgiving than the people she loves. A quiz competition sparks an unlikely romance between Aman and Shruti, one that must withstand parental disapproval and class divides. And Anjali, a journalist, is so busy chasing stories that she almost misses the one unfolding in her own life.

Set against the pulse of contemporary India, People We Love explores the tug-of-war between duty and desire, family and freedom, who we are and who we dare to be. Intimate and deeply felt, these are stories about love that stays, leaves and almost slips away … love that quietly and irrevocably shapes the people we become.

Preeti Shenoy, author, says, “People We Love is a collection of three long stories, prequels to my bestsellers It’s All in the Planets and The One You Cannot Have. If you have read those books, you already know how these characters’ stories unfold. But what you don’t know yet is where it all began, the loves they carried, the choices they made, and the people they were before life shaped them into who you met on those pages. Writing these prequels felt like returning to a home I hadn’t realised I missed, and discovering rooms I had never been in before.”

Rashmi Menon, Associate Publisher – HarperCollins India, adds, “Preeti Shenoy has an extraordinary gift for finding the heartbeat of ordinary lives. People We Love is a warm, wise and deeply humane collection of short stories that reunites readers with favourite characters from her bestselling novels It’s All in the Planets and The One You Cannot Have, weaving them into fresh, deeply satisfying narratives. These characters feel like people you know, and their journeys will move, comfort and surprise you. This uplifting, thought–provoking collection reminds us why we turn to stories in the first place. We couldn’t be more excited to share it with our readers.”

ABOUT THE AUTHOR 

Preeti Shenoy is among the highest-selling authors in India. She was featured on the Forbes longlist of the most influential celebrities in India. Her books include When Love Came Calling, Wake Up Life, Is Calling, Life Is What You Make It, The Rule Breakers, A Hundred Little Flames, It’s All in the Planets, Why We Love the Way We Do, The Secret Wish List, The One You Cannot Have and many others. Her work has been translated into many Indian languages. Preeti is also a motivational speaker, an avid fitness enthusiast, and an artist specializing in portraiture and illustrated journalling. Preeti lives in Bengaluru, Karnataka.

ABOUT HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS INDIA

At HarperCollins Publishers India, we believe in telling the best stories and ensuring they reach the widest readership. We publish around 250 new books every year across 10 imprints, adding to a diverse catalogue of more than 3,000 titles in print and digital formats, with an array of genres and voices that ensure there is a book for every reader. Our authors have won some of the most prestigious literary awards, and we are proud to publish many acclaimed writers, alongside new and emerging voices shaping contemporary literature. We are also the publishers of The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga, winner of the Booker Prize 2008, and Girl in White Cotton by Avni Doshi, shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2020, and HarperCollins India itself has been awarded “Publisher of the Year” several times. In addition, we represent some of the finest global publishers such as Harvard University Press, Lonely Planet, Oneworld, Nosy Crow, Usborne, and National Geographic Children, bringing Indian readers access to world-class books and ideas. We are also proud to be certified as a Great Place to Work for two consecutive years, a recognition of our culture, people, and values that make HarperCollins India a truly inspiring workplace. 

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Nandini Tripathi, Manager – Marketing (Commercial)

Email: nandini.tripathi@harpercollins.co.in | Mobile: +91 9718928839

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Fulfilling PM Modi’s Dream of Atmanirbhar Bharat: India’s AI Writing Startup Kreativespace Incubated at IIT Kharagpur

  1. Kreativespace, an Indian AI-powered writing platform founded by Vinet Kakadea, has been incubated at IIT Kharagpur and recognized by SVNIT University, Ministry of Education under Bodhan AI Conclave also through the NVIDIA Inception Program, AWS Startup Program, and DPIIT under Startup India.
  2. The platform unifies 8 AI-powered writing tools, along with AI Humanizer and Message AI feature being the latest addition into a single ecosystem, so you can generate and refine content all in one place.
  3. The company reports more than 50,000+ signed-up users, 75,000+ anonymous users, and roughly 100,000 monthly website visitors, positioning itself as the only Indian company operating at scale in the global AI writing market.

SURAT, India, June 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Kreativespace, an AI-powered writing platform, is building out its position as the only homegrown alternative in a market long dominated by international tools such as Grammarly and QuillBot. Founded by Vinet Kakadea and incubated at IIT Kharagpur, the company has aligned its growth with the broader push behind Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Atmanirbhar Bharat (Self-Reliant India) initiative, which encourages indigenous technology development capable of competing on a global scale.

Kreativespace Incubated at IIT Kharagpur

As AI adoption accelerates across India’s education, research, and enterprise sectors, Kreativespace is among a small group of Indian startups building writing technology designed to compete directly with established international platforms.

Kreativespace’s progress has been recognized by several institutions central to India’s startup and technology ecosystem. The company has been incubated at IIT Kharagpur, selected under SSIP 2.0 through SVNIT University, and chosen by the Ministry of Education to present its work at the Bodhan AI Conclave. It has also been accepted into the NVIDIA Inception Program and the AWS Startup Program, and holds DPIIT recognition under the Startup India initiative.

Where many writing-tool users rely on separate subscriptions for content generation to refinement for grammar correction, paraphrasing, plagiarism checking, citation generation, and editing, Kreativespace brings these functions into a single platform as a super-app for AI writing tools. The company says its approach centers on affordability and accessibility alongside performance, aiming to make advanced AI writing assistance available to a wider range of users regardless of geography or budget.

The idea for Kreativespace took shape while founder Vinet Kakadea was studying at New York University and Marymount University in the United States, where he experienced firsthand how students, researchers, and professionals often need multiple paid subscriptions to cover writing-related tasks. That fragmented experience led him to build a super-app offering each of these capabilities together, at a more accessible price point.

Kreativespace combines 8 AI-powered writing tools with AI Humanizer and Message AI feature being the latest addition, allowing users to generate, rewrite, refine, and humanize content without moving between separate platforms. The product is available via web platform, mobile apps on the App Store and Google Play, browser extensions for Chrome, Mozilla, and Edge, and a Google Docs add-on.

Vinet Kakadea, Founder of Kreativespace, said, “Kreativespace’s vision is to digitalize the entire Indian education ecosystem to support PM Modi’s Atmanirbhar Bharat scheme.”

About Kreativespace

Kreativespace with the Motto of Making Writing Accessible for Everyone: Kreativespace is an AI-powered writing platform built to make AI writing tools accessible, affordable, and effective for students, researchers, educators, professionals, content creators, startups, and enterprises. Founded by Vinet Kakadea, the company is incubated at IIT Kharagpur and has been recognized by AWS Startup Program, the NVIDIA Inception Program, and DPIIT under Startup India. For more information, visit kreativespace.com.

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