Entertainment7 MIN
Vicky Kaushal and the school of life
A decade after ‘Masaan’ catapulted the boy from Malvani to stardom, the actor reflects on fame, family, and fatherhood
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Where to eat this June… in Bengaluru
Accessories3 MIN
What shoes to wear to Hyrox? Ask the Hyrox veterans
Shuffled2 MIN
20 Vicky Kaushal facts to store in your brain forever
Many spoilers ahead5 MIN
21 thoughts I had watching this year’s most scary movie
Brief Encounters3 MIN
Ashiva Shu is introducing a new category to fashion: queerswear
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Where to eat this June... in Delhi-NCR
Arts4 MIN
With ‘Honest’, the photographer behind the Kingfisher calendar makes a pivot
Books5 MIN
To know Goa, you need ‘Fish Curry and Rice’—the book, not the meal
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STYLE
Accessories
What shoes to wear to Hyrox? Ask the Hyrox veterans
Picks include a dozen stellar options (and one clear winner)
Brief Encounters
Ashiva Shu is introducing a new category to fashion: queerswear
The Delhi-based designer’s debut collection turns childhood dress-up into luxurious clothes designed for queer men’s bodies
Fashion
Anne’s orange shearling jacket from ‘The Four Seasons’ is telling me to keep my dinosaur tee
Kerri Kenney-Silver’s character in the Netflix show has a colour-saturated wardrobe that’s a giant middle finger to ‘age-appropriate’ dressing
Fashion
Dolly Jain, sari draper to the stars, is ready for her next chapter
The “drapepreneur” has spent two decades perfecting the art of wearing a sari. Now with Kisseh, she wants to perfect the experience of buying one
The Nod Shop
12 flip-flops to hop to the beach and beyond
Thong sandals are the new fancy footwear
Fashion
At AltaRasa, you’ll find Sri Lankan batik alongside Bella Hadid-approved knitwear
Lopamudra’s new multi-designer platform brings together a curation from across the Subcontinent
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BEAUTY & WELL-BEING
Health
Your ob-gyn has a new nemesis—your algorithm
Indian women spent years pushing back against unsolicited advice. Turns out, solicited advice is aplenty online
The Recce
FaceGym gave me super-sculpted cheekbones for 48 hours
The London-based facial fitness studio whose workouts promise to sculpt, lift, depuff, and tone the face instantly has just arrived in Mumbai. We try it out
Mind
I spent a week living in the ‘Analogue Hour’. Here’s how it went
Inside a week-long experiment in trading effortless digital dopamine for 60 minutes off the grid each day
The Nod Shop
Having a baby? Send this list to every cousin flying back from the US before your due date
Some of these things make things easier, and some of them just look nice, and both are valid reasons
dispatch
Ananya Panday stops to smell the roses
The Chanel fragrance and beauty ambassador takes us along to the house’s annual May rose harvest in Grasse
Skin
This London dermatologist has a year-long waiting list
Running one of the few NHS clinics dedicated to skin and hair, Dr Archana Rao is tackling the misinformation and misdiagnoses surrounding perimenopause and menopause
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CULTURE
Shuffled
20 Vicky Kaushal facts to store in your brain forever
What do pandas, Haryanvi accents, sarson ka saag, and Denzel Washington have in common? They all feature in Vicky Kaushal’s world
Many spoilers ahead
21 thoughts I had watching this year’s most scary movie
Curry Barker takes a familiar romantic trope, adds an ominous wish-granting object, and delivers one of the year’s creepiest (and obsession-worthy) horror films
Books
To know Goa, you need ‘Fish Curry and Rice’—the book, not the meal
In the newly edited fifth edition of Claude Alvares’s iconic tome, you’ll find colourful stories of the state’s green past to take to the future. What you won’t find is a list of fish thali spots
Entertainment
Vicky Kaushal and the school of life
A decade after ‘Masaan’ catapulted the boy from Malvani to stardom, the actor reflects on fame, family, and fatherhood
The Nod Book Club
Why ‘Good People’ is our June book club pick
Written for the attention-deficit readers of the Reels generation, Patmeena Sabit’s debut novel looks at the death of an Afghan American teen through the eyes of her unduly invested community
Through the looking glass
The bougiest corner shop in London has an India connection
How Shreeji News and Magazines became the city’s coolest rabbit hole for fashion people, book nerds, beauty brands, and anyone trying to cultivate better taste
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TRAVEL & LIVING
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Where to eat this June… in Bengaluru
There’s Peruvian cuisine, award-winning street-style Thai food, bento boxes, and art you can
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Where to eat this June... in Delhi-NCR
New tables. Fresh menus. June delivers both
Food
Project Grain is ‘Mad Men’ via 2026
Bengaluru’s newest barrel-focused bar is where you can knock down 18-year aged whisky highballs as you hear a three-piece jazz band perform in a space that Don Draper would approve
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Where to eat this June... in Mumbai
From Goan thalis to Sindhi comfort food and a luxury mithai studio, good food is everywhere in the city right now
Places
For Gen Z, 3 micro vacations > 1 big annual holiday
A new survey throws light on the what-where-who of the time-starved generation’s preferred way to travel
Food
Even before its opening, Zetu has become Delhi’s most coveted table
The buzzy Geoffrey Bawa-esque space serves Sri Lankan staples like a deconstructed parippu, local bread carts, and hearty lamprais around a 500-year-old banyan tree
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COMMUNITY
Core memories
Delhi Gymkhana’s regulars aren’t ready to say goodbye just yet
With the Lutyens’ Delhi institution facing closure, six regulars remember the club through the rituals that made it feel like home—from post-swim chicken sandwiches to birthday cakes and summer tournaments
blame the stars
Your June 2026 horoscope is here
Jupiter is back, and it’s making things uncomfortable
Why retire?
Everyone wants to retire. But who has ₹40 crores to do it?
Gen Z knows the economy is cooked, so it’s chasing a viral guesstimate with mini retirements, passionless jobs, and side hustles
The poly-professionals
APJ Abdul Kalam told this swimming champ he could do more. So, he dove into forensics
Between balmy beaches and buzzing courtrooms, Indrajeet Khadilkar inhabits two very different worlds
The poly-professionals
Bengaluru has a real-life Hannah Montana
Harshali Shah, a corporate girlie from 9 to 6, trades her boring pants and blouse for bubblegum-pink crop tops and skater skirts as she turns into Tanya, the spin instructor, every evening
humour
10 things only a poly-professional will understand
Get the under-eyes of a Victorian poet or you’re not part of the club
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