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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

Weddings

A beachside wedding where the bride brought her teenage Pinterest boards to life

Rohan Gandhi and Shivani Gondhania’s destination wedding in Goa featured a baraat with a vintage car, colour smoke bombs, and palm trees everywhere (outfits included)

By Khushi Vora

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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Books

Some people read two books at once. Parini Shroff writes two at a time

By Ruhi Gilder

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

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

The Nod Book Club

Some people read two books at once. Parini Shroff writes two at a time

The prolific author discusses cat allergies, the tapered candles that need a writing credit, and the unusual pairing she brought to life in her latest novel, ‘Some People’

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 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

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

Check please

Where to eat... this October

New drops, a week-long eating-out fest, another Franken-croissant—October’s got our plates full

Covet

This Kolkata brand comes with some Kusama-esque cred

At India Design ID Mumbai, Atelier Arunika’s dotty collection makes furniture and decor objects inspired by children’s frocks, hand fans, and, in one instance, even a bioscope

By Tanvi Parekh

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

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

It's a love story

It’s a date! My personal AI agent will get in touch with yours

How Instinct, a new invite-only personal AI agent, is filling in communication gaps and taking on the admin load of modern relationships

By Avani Thakkar

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