It was a glamorous evening when crème de la crème of the design world descended at The Gallery on MG for the celebration Abraxas Lifestyle Magazine’s First Anniversary.

The event started up with the traditional lighting of the lamp ceremony. Advisory Board member and prominent photographer Akash Das hosted a special photography exhibition showcasing 60 of his fabulous works on wildlife, fashion and fine art nudes.

Publisher and Managing Editor, Hemant Sud announced the addition of artist Sanjay Bhattacharya and Sonjoy Mohanty in the Advisory Board. Also setting up of new chartiable intiative called Abraxas Trust and magazine going international from next month was announced at the celebratory event. All the members of Advisory Board were felicitated with special gifts. The evening ended with cocktails and dinners.

Joining the celebration were guests like Sanjib Chaterjee, Tanuja and Sanjay Kanvin, Padma Shree Ritu Kumar, Urvashi Kaur, Niket and Jainee, Gautam Gupta, Vandana Sethi, Pawan Sachdeva, Anuradha Ramam, Shantanu Singh, Mausmi Bajpai, Salil Bhatia, Raghav Chandra, Andrew Ko, Kiran Karnik, CP Gurnani, Rajendra S. Pawar and Pradeep Gupta, Shankar Sawhney, Sanjay Bhattacharya, Naseer Abdullah, Sanjiv Bhasin and Ravi Dhingra among others.