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Style

Beauty & Well-being

Culture

Travel & Living

Community

Balance

The Wedding Collective

Book Club

Off-Book

Entertainment6 MIN

Tamannaah Bhatia: Prolific actor, girls’ girl, no-BS entrepreneur

Two decades after her film debut, the star of many hits across Tamil, Telugu and Hindi films opens up about dancing, industry friendships, and making things that outlive people
By Rohini Ramnathan

LATEST STORIES

Ankur Tewari's new album Mr Faarigh is out now
Entertainment7 MIN

With ‘Mr Faarigh’, Ankur Tewari makes Bandra a muse

By Tanvi Parekh
Mystery Novels 2026 releases
Currently reading5 MIN

11 mystery novels we’re devouring this August

By Ruhi Gilder
dads wellness featured
Health5 MIN

Millennial dads have entered their longevity era

By Chelna Khatau
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The Real Deal4 MIN

In natural diamonds, a little piece of home

By Thea Turner
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The Nod Shop5 MIN

11 cult makeup products by people who know best

By Priyanka Parkash
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Tech2 MIN

The new Boox Go 6 Gen 2 is a prettier alternative to your Kindle

By Sheya Kurian
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The Nod Book Club8 MIN

Ayşegül Savaş’s book is like a mirror to millennial life. Just don’t call her a millennial writer

By Megha Mahindru
Bluorng’s garments punctuate the grey-and-steel palette with colour
Design5 MIN

This Ahmedabad store looks straight out of ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’

By Insia Lacewalla 

STYLE

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Kids These Days6 MIN

What to buy a teen today? Ask a teen (or nine)

Jorts, baby tees, and some Rare Beauty make the list
By Darshita Goyal
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The Real Deal

In natural diamonds, a little piece of home

For women who moved overseas, certain pieces of jewellery hold more than material value—they’re emotional anchors to the families and homes they left behind
By Thea Turner
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Fashion

The teenagers in ‘The Shards’ are sporty, rich, and dressed for a murderer

Ryan Murphy’s latest series turns 1980s Los Angeles into a glossy playground of prep, privilege, and peril, where the fashion is as revealing as the characters wearing it
By Tanya Mehta
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In collaboration with Punit Balana

What’s incredibly chic? Wedding dressing in prints

Punit Balana on why the next great wedding outfit might start with a printed silhouette
By Vanshika Jain
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She sells seashells

This Surat-based designer is putting miniature paintings on shell pendants

Mana Patel takes us through the delicate, nerve-racking process that precedes each of her statement pieces
By Pratiksha Acharya
Beaded bags by Mirchi By Kim
The Nod Shop

12 beaded bags that don’t need an occasion

Cheerful, embellished, and surprisingly easy to wear with everything you already own
By The Nod Desk
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Weddings

A Belgian-Indian wedding in monsoon-soaked Goa

Sarah Saxena and Pranab Patel’s celebrations featured two Dries Van Noten looks, a 15-year-old Kanjivaram, and a menu with khichdi and French fries
By Khushi Vora
Devisha Kumari Singh in a custom tie dye sari
Fashion

Devisha Kumari Singh has a sari for every day of the year

The Jaipur- and London-based creative, who has nearly 300 drapes in her collection, talks “borrowing” from her mom, pearls, and being hot-pink leopard print at her core
By Himanshu Dutta
testimonial-quote

I feel like we’ve always been a musical culture. We love songs. But somewhere people started treating them as frivolous. Like they don’t require thought. Or effort. Or investment.

EntertainmentTamannaah Bhatia: Prolific actor, girls’ girl, no-BS entrepreneurBy Rohini Ramnathan

SKIM

Capsule-sized news for the time-strapped.

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Tech

The new Boox Go 6 Gen 2 is a prettier alternative to your Kindle

By Sheya Kurian
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Accessories

This Surat-based designer is putting miniature paintings on shell pendants

By Pratiksha Acharya
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Fashion

We’re here for Anne Hathaway’s maternity looks featuring her very real bump

By The Nod Desk

DIVE

Thought provoking long reads and opinions.
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Ankur Tewari's new album Mr Faarigh is out now
Entertainment

With ‘Mr Faarigh’, Ankur Tewari makes Bandra a muse

By Tanvi Parekh
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Books

Ayşegül Savaş’s book is like a mirror to millennial life. Just don’t call her a millennial writer

By Megha Mahindru
regerative skincare
Skin

Forget fillers and Botox. What if your skin repaired itself?

By Sheree Gomes Gupta

BEAUTY & WELL-BEING

Skin3 MIN

My new skincare expert is an AI chatbot. That’s probably a problem

After influencers and Reddit threads, we’ve moved on to ChatGPT for beauty advice
By Navya Sharma
dads wellness featured
Health

Millennial dads have entered their longevity era

Ice baths, VO2 Max, 4:30 am workouts, and a whole lot of data—meet the men turning ageing into their most ambitious personal project yet
By Chelna Khatau
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The Nod Shop

11 cult makeup products by people who know best

If in doubt, ask a professional. From Mario Dedivanovic’s cult brush to Mary Phillips’s underpainting palette and Namrata Soni’s cream blush, these makeup bag essentials come straight from pros and their brands
By Priyanka Parkash
regerative skincare
Skin

Forget fillers and Botox. What if your skin repaired itself?

Sculptra, PDRN, polynucleotides, and exosomes signal a new beauty obsession: regenerative skincare
By Sheree Gomes Gupta
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Health

The new way Gen Z is getting their supplements? Lollipops

Stranger things have happened. Meet the collagen and electrolyte candies trying to make wellness fun again
By Darshita Goyal
The Nod Shop

Your face bleach might be feeding your pigmentation

That 15-minute salon quick fix could be the reason your dark spots keep coming back. Skin experts explain what’s actually happening to your skin
By Patsy Anthony
Cryotherapy at Tulah wellness
The Recce

I’m 32. At Tulah, I discovered I have the bone health of a 50-year-old

At Kerala’s newest clinical wellness retreat, DEXA scans, a not-so-flattering VO2 max score, and a deep dive into my health revealed that six years of strength training hadn’t made me nearly as healthy as I thought
By SHRADHA SHAHANI
cosmeticorexia
Skin

The internet has a name for your perfect-skin anxieties: Cosmeticorexia

Preventative Botox at 24. A 12-step routine before breakfast. The term might not be a real diagnosis, but the obsession driving it certainly is
By Rituparna Som

CULTURE

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Chronically Online4 MIN

You’ve got bird mail

Because texting is too mainstream, Roost, a new app, lets you send messages by virtual birds at their actual flying speeds
By Sheya Kurian
Ankur Tewari's new album Mr Faarigh is out now
Entertainment

With ‘Mr Faarigh’, Ankur Tewari makes Bandra a muse

In his latest album, the singer-songwriter jumps from mellow house parties to protests and hustle culture in the span of nine songs
By Tanvi Parekh
Mystery Novels 2026 releases
Currently reading

11 mystery novels we’re devouring this August

A ‘Big Little Lies’ sequel, a spooky island thriller from Riley Sager with ‘And Then There Were None’ vibes, and a golf ball gone rogue keep us turning the page this month
By Ruhi Gilder
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The Nod Book Club

Ayşegül Savaş’s book is like a mirror to millennial life. Just don’t call her a millennial writer

The author of ‘Long Distance’ talks about people-watching and writing powerfully observed short stories that will transport you back to your younger self
By Megha Mahindru
Manuja Waldia, Granny Miu Miu
The Nod List

In August, we’re going gallery-hopping

Plus, this wedding-season's It-piece, a longevity summit, and more of The Nod’s current obsessions
By The Nod Desk
Currently Cringe Watching

The internet white boy of the moment is...a mouse?

The first in my bloodline to see a mouse hit 45k followers on Instagram
By Saniya Jaffer
The house of Dragon 3
Many spoilers ahead

Dang, that’s gotta hurt, and other thoughts I had while watching ‘House of the Dragon’

Rhaenyra in beast mode, Roddy on rampage, and Ulf doing Ulf things—there was more than treason transpiring at Tumbleton in the season three finale of the show
By Diya Parakh

TRAVEL & LIVING

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Design4 MIN

India Post is making old-school collecting cool again

Why stamps, postcards and tiny art collectibles are finding new fans in an increasingly digital world
By Sheya Kurian
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Tech

The new Boox Go 6 Gen 2 is a prettier alternative to your Kindle

The latest Boox e-reader comes in four very photogenic colours, supports note-taking and multiple reading apps, and might just tempt you away from your Kindle
By Sheya Kurian
Bluorng’s garments punctuate the grey-and-steel palette with colour
Design

This Ahmedabad store looks straight out of ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’

With no focus lights, plants or knick-knacks, Bluorng’s Bodakadev flagship with metal-clad walls is a raw, tactile space that lets you chance upon things
By Insia Lacewalla 
Steak and fries at Pique, a new wine bar off Horniman Circle
Free pour

How to pique our interest? Put wine front and centre

Pique, the new wine bar near Mumbai’s Horniman Circle, builds a menu around vino with 12 wines by the glass and 24 by the bottle
By Roshni Bajaj Sanghvi
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Places

Just a charming street party in Rome—with 25,000 scooters

At Vespa’s 80th anniversary celebrations, nonnas and grandpas, teens and dogs gather for a family-style parade to show-off their prized two-wheelers
By Ridhima Sapre
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The super-regulars

This Chandigarh couple has eaten at Naar over 30 times in 32 months

Dr Anshumaan and Anupama Kapoor, who live eight minutes from India’s most famous destination restaurant, have watched it being built, fawned over its 16-course meal and even cooked for its chefs
By Roshni Bajaj Sanghvi
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Design

This Mumbai couple brought Durga and Art Deco under the same roof

One’s a morning person, the other is, decidedly, not. One leans East, the other looks West. Saim Ghani and Chirag Dengra’s home is a reflection of their distinctive sensibilities and common interests
By Tanya Mehta
Artwork by The Nod
Food

31 pizza places for the purists and the pineapple-topping lovers

From classic Neapolitan to thin-crust Roman-style pies, picante pizza to nori-topped yakitori pizza, our pan-India pizza guide is everything you imagined—and didn’t
By Ara Mishra

COMMUNITY

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Impact5 MIN

The tiny pig that refused to disappear

Thanks to conservation efforts, the pygmy hog—barely a foot tall and once feared extinct—is making a comeback in Assam’s grasslands
By Radhika Iyengar
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Impact

Imagine a blind box—but one filled with surplus baked goods

Replate is tackling food wastage in Hyderabad and Bengaluru, one surprise goodie bag at a time
By Mallik Thatipalli
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Work

“You can’t pay bills with lipstick”: The ugly truth about India’s creator economy

Despite the country’s influencer marketing industry booming, creators are struggling to grow followings, land brand deals, and get their invoices processed
By Rhea Arora
Venus in virgo
blame the stars

Love is in the group chat. Venus is in Virgo

Forget grand gestures. This transit is all about practical care, healthy boundaries, and figuring out whether your relationship can survive a shared Google Calendar
By Sukanya Venkatraghavan
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Office politics

How voice notes became the workplace rage bait

Plus, who can send it? When to send it? And most importantly, should you?
By Sheya Kurian
Read your Leo Horoscope for August 2026 2026 horoscope
blame the stars

Your August 2026 horoscope is here

A cosmic power cut asks: “Where are you when the lights come back on?”
By Sheetal Dewan Kapur
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What just happened

So, millennials like Gen Z now?

Look who’s finally taking the “slackers” seriously
By Nidhi Gupta