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If you are a music lover, then you are definitely at the correct place. Nowadays, music had become a passion, a basic need of every human. If you too are a sucker for music and are looking for speakers that wouldn't burn a hole in your pocket then here are 10 best bluetooth speakers under 5000 rupees that you can get in India:

We all know the hassles that come with making preparations for a holiday. However, the most difficult thing is getting a visa for the destination we intend to visit. Going for a vacation outside India isn't just about packing your bags or choosing an exotic destination location, it is a rather long drawn affair and there is a lot of planning to do. The most important of them all is the procurement and management of visas to enter the country you plan to visit. To get that to happen, an interview at the respective consulate is imperative and despite hours of documentation, there is always the downright fatal chance of your visa being rejected. In order to solve this dreaded happening situation, how about visiting places that provide on arrival visa for Indian citizens? Sounds good, right? So here are 10 countries that offer visa on arrival for us, Indians:

Creative agency Masquespacio brightens up the dreaded visit to a dentist into a pleasant experience by diverting the patient's mind with a sculptural smile in the interior envelope amid a soothing ambience. Check out the story here…

Chipmaker giant Intel seems to be in a different orbit altogether. At the recently concluded Computex event in Taipei, Intel showcased a prototype of what it believes would be the future of high-end gaming laptops. Codenamed 'Honeycomb Glacier', this laptop places two screens on each other - a primary display having 15.6" Full HD display and a secondary display with 12.3" 1920×720 pixel screen. The secondary screen is supported on a mechanical one-way roller hinge and can be put to rest horizontally in continuation to the keyboard, when not in use.

Interior Designers P A L Design Group uses a minimalist approach to design the SIS Prep School in Gurugram, where a sense of scale, soft lighting, and a neutral palette ensures a calm but boundless environment for toddlers to explore and develop holistically.

Shanghai-based interdisciplinary architecture and design studio Neri & Hu conceives a Tea House to relocate a relic structure as an urban artefact, drawing from the historical roots of the city of Fuzhou - the exercise serves as a tribute to the distinct heritage of a place at a time when rapid new development has eroded traditional culture and identity.

Cluster One Creative Solutions Pvt. Ltd. designs a large home for a family of six in #Pune using restraint as the overriding tool to create a timeless home with a vast potential for growth

MVRDV designs a six-storey first-of-its-kind publicly accessible art depot in the world. The Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen in #Rotterdam with its mirrored façade and arresting art-filled atrium has won the Public Building of the Year at the Architectenweb awards for being "a great solution to a complex problem" via "radical choices and a strong focus on innovation"…

Neri & Hu designs a timeless piece of architecture - a whisky distillery at a historically rich site that once hosted a monastery.

Triple O Studio aspires to catch them young as they craft a welcoming, democratic and an encumbrance-free O.A.T space, in a Tamil Nadu University, under the benign shadow of a sanctum, aspiring to foster a sort of interactive space that promotes self-realisation.

TeamNegre Studio rises to the challenge of chiselling a compact home with a pared-back palette in harmony with its front-line location to the sea in a quiet residential area in Mallorca. The minimalist design approach acts as a Mediterranean jewel, marrying the view with the understated chic interior. 

YR Pavillion is an unusual project. Designed for a couple - both art collectors, "Folie" by studio Cruz-Mandiola Arquitectura & Objetos is an inhabitable sculpture comprising three facilities: a massage room, a space for exercise, and a bathroom. Its construction, understood as a handcrafted process, is the result of the intersection between Architecture, Sculpture, and Art.

A mirror made entirely of metal. A mirror believed to bring Goodluck and prosperity. A mirror that is a legacy. This is 'Aranmula Kannadi' a mirror as ancient as the Vedas!

Rotterdam Roof Days collaborates with MVRDV to map the proto of a new sociocultural footprint - a rooftop walk that will create awareness about constructive utilisation of rooftops to combat the scarcity of space in cities and prevent the continued urbanisation of rural areas. With a lot of room for debate and across-the-board ideation, will this proto ignite a historic spark?

Hailing from the lush forests and mountains of North-East India, Studio Aro is a team of dedicated designers and builders who stay true to their roots. With bamboo as their specialty and a material close to their hearts, they sculpt a meditation gazebo for a family on a farmland in Tamil Nādu.

O&A London designs a home in Moscow centred around hosting a vast collection of rare and valuable art deco vases in a contemporary setting with due respect to their periods of origin.

Anya Moryoussef Architect inventively reconstructs a 112-year-old delicately proportioned, light-filled home, built on its original foundations, forming part of a vernacular - a turn-of-the-century housing typology that has almost completely disappeared from the city of Toronto.

Bureau Fraai crafts an adaptive reuse project by designing a psychological practice with a 'labyrinth' pattern floor in a monumental chapel in the city centre of Amsterdam. The playful labyrinth flooring gives the central open space a human scale and a unique identity, its circular, green-coloured carpet tiles, averring to the treatments the practice offers helping people to 'find their way back'.

Set in a farmland milieu, Atelier Design N Domain design a single-family home in Vadodara establishing a strong inside-outside connect and addressing the various aspects of a contemporary lifestyle. Read on to know more here… 

Building skin imparts a character to a place, externally; and is a major parameter for building performance, internally. rat[LAB]-Research in Architecture & Technology designs a façade project in Gurgaon for an industrial building using parametric techniques that have overcome multiple constraints. Find out more about the result here...