The Nod Mag

Design4 Min

This holiday home in Kamshet reminds you to have fun

Architect Shonan Purie Trehan’s design for a free-spirited lake house is equal parts playful and serene

By Avantika Shankar

Still processing 3 Min

‘Shōgun’ and how the East won the West

This year’s Emmy-sweeping FX drama series is slow-burn television gold

By Ameta Bal

Impact5 Min

Tanvi Jindal Shete wants to create the antithesis of schools

At Mumbai’s Museum of Solutions, the kids are in charge of their own time

By Priyanka Khanna

The Nod Shop4 MIN

What do your sneakers say about you?

You won’t find a better shoe-shopping guide on the internet

By Chloe Chou

Fashion

In defence of the co-ord set

An elevated twin set does all the work, so you don’t have to

byPriyanka Khanna

Weddings

Can an Indian wedding ever be sustainable?

With a little bit of planning, it can come close

byButool Jamal

A collage of mirror selfies and products

Accessories

If you don’t have a mirror selfie in it, did you even wear it?

Objects in the mirror are more plandid than they appear

byPraachi Raniwala

Jewellery & Watches

Filing these status watches under “affordable luxury”

The most iconic timepieces you can buy without breaking the bank

byRishna Shah

Earscaping

Uorfi revels in chaos and action—being a passive observer or narrator, even if it is of her own life, bores her.

EntertainmentThe contradictions and chaos of being UorfiBY Naomi Datta

SKIM

Capsule-sized news for the time-strapped.

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Hair & Make-up

Baubles for your blowout

byNaheed Driver

Design

This Delhi brand just made cane cool again

byAvantika Shankar

Food

Mumbai has a new power lunch spot

byArzoo Dina

DIVE

Thought provoking long reads and opinions.

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Hair & Make-up

Beyond the one-hit wonder

byChloe Chou

Places

After Barcelona, the war on tourism heats up in India

byPrasad Ramamurthy

Relationships

Does Gen Z really suck at flirting?

byDarshita Goyal

The birthing suite in Apollo Health City, Hyderabad

Health5 MIN

The suite life of luxury birthing centres

From candlelit dinners by hotel-trained chefs to spa-like bathrooms, Indian hospitals are now offering new mothers the chance to actually enjoy the childbirth experience

By Nishat Fatima

On the fence about

Egg freezing isn’t all it’s cracked up to be

The ability to hit snooze on the baby conversation comes with a hefty bill attached

bySonali Kokra

Hair & Make-up

Beyond the one-hit wonder

For young beauty brands, hero products are the route to cult status. Here’s how they go past hype

byChloe Chou

The Nod Shop

Baubles for your blowout

The best barrettes, bows, and clip-on blooms to stick in your hair

byNaheed Driver

A representative graphic showcasing a male C-suite executive getting botox

Skin Deep

Bro-tox is going big in Indian C-suites

That corner-office guy with great skin? Yeah, he’s probably getting injectables

byDarshita Goyal

A group of people in an open space in a forest in Singapore

BRB, touching grass

When an overthinking sceptic signed up for forest bathing

Somewhere in the middle of meditative doodling and feeling up trees, I found emotional peace

bySheree Gomes Gupta

Health

Forget buying a house or having kids, the millennial Big Expense is wellness

Saving up to make health their gratuity plan

byDeepti Dadlani

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‘Goodbye Meta AI’ isn’t the revolution you think it is

You know those chain mails from the noughties that you had to forward to 20 people “or someone would die”? Well, they’re clearly back, just in a reinvented, social media-coded version.
Just last week, Meta confirmed it would be going ahead and mining user content in the UK. A bunch of gullible optimists online—including Julianne Moore, Jessica Chastain, and James McAvoy—decided to share an ‘Add Yours’ template in protest, with messaging that enticed more than 5,00,000 users to believe that it would protect them if they reshared it on their stories.
To those delulu enough to have bought in, your Meta reality is not so simple: remember that tiny button you clicked when you said you agreed to all terms and conditions when you downloaded the app? We are sad to inform you that you’ve already handed over all rights to “modify, copy, or create derivative works” of your content to the company.