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25 coffee gifts that will perk up everyone on your list

There’s a dripper that doubles as an immersion brewer, beans rested in whisky barrels, and mineral drops that fine-tune the water itself

By Dipak Raghuwansi

Fashion2 Min

An Elie Saab wedding gown—minus the couture invoice

The Elie Saab H&M collaboration’s surprise wedding gown brings corsetry, beads, and a sweeping train to the high-street aisle

By The Nod Desk

Read your Leo Horoscope for October 2026 horoscope

blame the stars4 Min

Your October 2026 horoscope is here

Venus and Mercury are in retrograde. Your certainty isn’t a virtue anymore

By Sheetal Dewan Kapur

Fashion4 MIN

In Chettinad, Chinese soldiers on Parsi garas and Penang kerchiefs on Madras checks

A recent textile exhibition in Karaikudi, ‘Coming Home: Fashioned Lives of the Chettiar, Parsi and Peranakan Communities’, by The Registry of Sarees showed how trade and travel influenced clothing

By Shalini Shah

Accessories

When streaming came in, all the movies were equally placed next to each other on the same grid. You could have Shah Rukh Khan’s films alongside a web series by an unknown actor. That kind of democratisation, to me, was a welcome change.

EntertainmentVijay Varma is done playing the bad guyBy Jane Borges

SKIM

Capsule-sized news for the time-strapped.

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Accessories

Go backless. It’s mules season

By Khushi Vora

Fashion

A pop of red is the styling trick of the season

By Khushi Vora

Tech

This app lets you order coffee from Boojee at home without flying to Mumbai

By Sheya Kurian

DIVE

Thought provoking long reads and opinions.

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Entertainment

Vijay Varma is done playing the bad guy

By Jane Borges

Fashion

Amit Aggarwal likes his coffee strong, his stores grey, and his television silly

By Chloe Chou

Relationships

Your October 2026 horoscope is here

By Sheetal Dewan Kapur

Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow3 MIN

Simone Ashley has more than acting on her mind

Between lifting weights, vintage shopping, and getting camera-ready, the actor talks Paris, knowing your worth, and the rituals that keep her grounded

By Sheya Kurian

Mind

This Mumbai festival is using art to spark conversations on mental health

At Catharsis, a two-day immersive event filled with art, theatre, and music, the audience return home with one skill: the ability to talk about difficult things

By Tanvi Parekh

Covet

The new must-have Dior accessory is a lip balm

The Dior Médaillon is proof that the most mundane things can inspire the most beautiful objects

By Butool Jamal

Hair & Makeup

Beauty veteran Vimi Joshi can do a smoky eye with her eyes closed

M.A.C’s former global senior artist talks to us about the debut of her eponymous brand, her love for ’80s Bollywood glam, and why she believes in sexy, feminine makeup

By Avani Thakkar

Hair & Makeup

A Hyderabad attar shop that’s served Nizams and politicians alike

Inside Nizam Attar, an 80 sq ft shop near Charminar, where five generations of the Ramzan family are still distilling attars that once perfumed the royal court

By Mallik Thatipalli

Hanging out

Inside the calisthenics microscene sweeping Jammu, Jamshedpur and Nongstoin

From the hills of Meghalaya to the streets of Jammu, a new generation of fit people are bypassing gyms and taking over parks to build a community with nothing more than a pull-up bar, a patch of ground, and each other

By Avani Thakkar

Skin

Copper peptides: holy grail or a fast track to ageing skin?

A skincare ingredient with a split personality, copper peptides can either give you glass skin or make you look five years older

By Patsy Anthony

Skin

Why your perfume smells nothing like the reviews

The internet might call it light, subtle or barely there. On Indian skin, it could be a whole different fragrance. Blame chemistry, climate, and the way scent unfolds over time

By Jyotika Udeshi

Some People Parini Shroff nod book club pick

The Nod Book Club3 MIN

Why we chose ‘Some People’ as our October book club pick

A soon-to-be-ex mother-in-law and son-in-law duo with nothing in common are forced to confront their past in this emotional yet humorous novel

By Ruhi Gilder

Entertainment

The writer of ‘Primetime’ isn’t sure how his script got to Robert Pattinson, but he has a theory

Ajon Singh, an Indian-origin, NY-based screenwriter, talks about his feature debut, those Chris Hansen memes, and how a diet of ‘Devdas’ and ‘Dhoom’ affected his filmmaking sensibility

By Saniya Jaffer

Books

In her “sort-of memoir”, Shefali Shah tackles films, friendships, and Spanx

For her literary debut, the actor delves into everything from the roles she picked (and walked away from) to the women she loves and why she believes a good blow-dry can fix anything

By Tanvi Parekh

Entertainment

Vijay Varma is done playing the bad guy

At 40, the chameleonic actor is happy with an image change. After years of portraying the messy outlier, the prolific actor is embracing powerful roles that show his range—whether it’s the lead or the sidekick

By Jane Borges

The Nod List

Jellyfish and seahorses at Hermès

Plus, a new lipstick beloved by Rakhi Sawant, festive-shopping destinations, and more of The Nod’s current obsessions

By The Nod Desk

Still from 'Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma'

For the Plot

A queer watchlist to pregame ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’

‘I Saw the TV Glow’, and I think you should too

By Saniya Jaffer

Currently reading

With ‘We Chase Shadows’, Richard Osman’s other mystery series finds its footing

The author of ‘The Thursday Murder Club’ finally dials it up with this sequel to his 2004 novel ‘We Solve Murders’. We’re talking Van Halen-loving cops, pill-dealing crooks, and a pile of dead bodyguards

By Shalini Shah

Food4 MIN

Next on the whimsy-maxxing bandwagon? Your sandwich shop

As fonts and logos become forgettable, cafes and restaurants are turning to cartoon figures as mascots to bring humour and recall value. Say hello to the coffee-cup-wielding brioche slice

By Anjan Sachar

Food

6 months in, Roc-A-Coe finally finds its footing in Chennai

A cocktail-forward bar on the buzzy KNK Road realigned its menu to how the city eats. So, 11 dishes turned to 50, and out went the avocado with dosa

By Geetika Sachdev 

Design

Vikram Goyal is bringing brocade, brass, and the Ramayana to London

The Delhi-based designer talks maximalism, his new epic-inspired collection, and why a good bar is all about the interiors

By Sheya Kurian

check-in

This forest retreat outside Bengaluru expects one thing from you: do nothing

The family-run Kombukal Bidara offers the quiet of a forest, home-cooked Kannadiga meals, and a waterfall pool that’s only slightly faking it

By Sheree Gomes Gupta

In collaboration with IKEA

At IKEA IKONIC 4.0, the idea of home went well beyond four walls

Across two days of the festival, conversations around renting, design, food, memory, and relationships revealed the many ways we make space for what we love and how we shape homes that feel like our own

By Vanshika Jain

Tech

These three new Kindles are making a strong case for an upgrade

Slimmer, lighter, and (finally) prettier, the new Kindle lineup brings fresh colours, longer battery life, and a page-turning remote to the reading game

By Sheya Kurian

Tech

This app lets you order coffee from Boojee at home without flying to Mumbai

Homegrounds brings 40-plus Indian coffee roasters onto one app, letting you discover and order coffees from across the country

By Sheya Kurian

Places

Motorcycle diaries from the Himalayan Basecamp

A valley full of roaring bikes, performances by Taba Chake and Ankur Tewari, and lessons in off-roading—the three-day event in Leh had all the thrills of a mountain adventure

By Aneev Rao

Internet scrubbers inc4 MIN

Your boss does not need to see your old posts

As work and social media become increasingly intertwined, people are taking a second look at what they have left behind online and deciding what stays, what gets archived, and what gets deleted

By Sheya Kurian

blame the stars

Your horoscope this fortnight: October 5 to 18

Venus is retrograde. Expect mixed signals, unexpected turns, and long-buried issues to resurface

By Sheetal Dewan Kapur

blame the stars

Your October 2026 horoscope is here

Venus and Mercury are in retrograde. Your certainty isn’t a virtue anymore

By Sheetal Dewan Kapur

Everyone's talking about

These fat dogs of Delhi had our hearts. Now they want our votes

The Instagram page Fatdogsofdelhi has turned 64 chunky neighbourhood celebrities into election candidates, complete with campaigns, fan bases, and enough virtual drama to rival the real thing

By Sheya Kurian

Relationships

Two new Indian books look past the halo around motherhood

 Diksha Basu’s ‘A Mother is Born’ and Shivani Sibal’s ‘Moms’ dismantle the tired trope of the self-sacrificing mother

By Priyanka Khanna

blame the stars

Your horoscope this fortnight: September 21 to 30

Alert the neighbours. Warn your friends. Mars is moving through Cancer and it’s making things personal

By Sheetal Dewan Kapur

I put a spell on you

Need a raise? Get back with your ex? There’s a spell for that

Stuck in unfulfilling jobs and tired of modern dating, people are turning to witchcraft, oils and potions to tackle love, luck and even layoffs

By Darshita Goyal

Vijay Varma is done playing the bad guy

LATEST STORIES

This Mumbai festival is using art to spark conversations on mental health

The writer of ‘Primetime’ isn’t sure how his script got to Robert Pattinson, but he has a theory

6 months in, Roc-A-Coe finally finds its footing in Chennai

Vikram Goyal is bringing brocade, brass, and the Ramayana to London

12 bags and shoes from the spring/summer 2027 runways that had us zooming in

The new must-have Dior accessory is a lip balm

Beauty veteran Vimi Joshi can do a smoky eye with her eyes closed

When a runway just wouldn’t do, Cord put up a musical

25 coffee gifts that will perk up everyone on your list

An Elie Saab wedding gown—minus the couture invoice

Your October 2026 horoscope is here

STYLE

In Chettinad, Chinese soldiers on Parsi garas and Penang kerchiefs on Madras checks

12 bags and shoes from the spring/summer 2027 runways that had us zooming in

When a runway just wouldn’t do, Cord put up a musical

This homegrown label is turning vintage lace into tactile jewellery

Go backless. It’s mules season

A São Paulo brand wants to dress the 9-to-9 man

In ‘Verity’, the clothes work harder than the actors or the plot

A pop of red is the styling trick of the season

When streaming came in, all the movies were equally placed next to each other on the same grid. You could have Shah Rukh Khan’s films alongside a web series by an unknown actor. That kind of democratisation, to me, was a welcome change.

SKIM

Go backless. It’s mules season

A pop of red is the styling trick of the season

This app lets you order coffee from Boojee at home without flying to Mumbai

DIVE

Vijay Varma is done playing the bad guy

Amit Aggarwal likes his coffee strong, his stores grey, and his television silly

Your October 2026 horoscope is here

BEAUTY & WELL-BEING

Simone Ashley has more than acting on her mind

This Mumbai festival is using art to spark conversations on mental health

The new must-have Dior accessory is a lip balm

Beauty veteran Vimi Joshi can do a smoky eye with her eyes closed

A Hyderabad attar shop that’s served Nizams and politicians alike

Inside the calisthenics microscene sweeping Jammu, Jamshedpur and Nongstoin

Copper peptides: holy grail or a fast track to ageing skin?

Why your perfume smells nothing like the reviews

CULTURE

Why we chose ‘Some People’ as our October book club pick

The writer of ‘Primetime’ isn’t sure how his script got to Robert Pattinson, but he has a theory

In her “sort-of memoir”, Shefali Shah tackles films, friendships, and Spanx

Vijay Varma is done playing the bad guy

Jellyfish and seahorses at Hermès

A queer watchlist to pregame ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’

With ‘We Chase Shadows’, Richard Osman’s other mystery series finds its footing

TRAVEL & LIVING

Next on the whimsy-maxxing bandwagon? Your sandwich shop

6 months in, Roc-A-Coe finally finds its footing in Chennai

Vikram Goyal is bringing brocade, brass, and the Ramayana to London

This forest retreat outside Bengaluru expects one thing from you: do nothing

At IKEA IKONIC 4.0, the idea of home went well beyond four walls

These three new Kindles are making a strong case for an upgrade

This app lets you order coffee from Boojee at home without flying to Mumbai

Motorcycle diaries from the Himalayan Basecamp

COMMUNITY

Your boss does not need to see your old posts

Your horoscope this fortnight: October 5 to 18

Your October 2026 horoscope is here

These fat dogs of Delhi had our hearts. Now they want our votes

Two new Indian books look past the halo around motherhood

Your horoscope this fortnight: September 21 to 30

Need a raise? Get back with your ex? There’s a spell for that