The Established • 4th October 2023

What does the Humans of Bombay controversy say about art and profit motives?

After Humans of Bombay brought suit against People of India for copyright infringement, Humans of New York founder Brandon Stanton publicly highlighted the irony of a copycat account suing another copycat account. But when duplication is the MO of a laissez-faire Internet, how do we navigate lofty ideas of intellectual property?

Rolling Stone India • 14th September 2023

COVER STORY: Up Close and Personal with AP Dhillon

As he settles into superstardom and unlocks a new phase in his career, the genre-defying musician weighs in on evolution, representation and the importance of being himself

The Hindu • 17th August 2023

Inside Toiletpaper’s largest show, ‘Run As Slow As You Can’, in Mumbai

The cult art & photography magazine’s founders Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari’s investigate “our hyper consumption of imagery”

Vogue India • 22nd July 2023

The DINK lifestyle has more advocates than ever. Why are modern couples choosing to be child-free?

To many, the “happily ever after” is unfathomable if you refute both social norms and the biological order

Vogue India • 29th April 2023

Indians are hopping on the Wes Anderson Instagram trend to showcase the diverse beauty of their country

Whether it’s Fort Kochi or Mumbai’s Ballard Estate, Kolkata’s buses or Delhi’s Lodhi Colony—there’s no dearth of locations in India where you can pretend to be in a Wes Anderson movie

The Established • 29th March 2023

It’s not long before an Indian city is the next cocktail capital of the world

Homegrown craft liquor, savvy bartenders, and a growing, curious consumer base—India’s mixology industry has hit the trifecta. But with a little more flaring, it could go global

Architectural Digest India • 16th February 2023

At home and in the world with Yash Chopra's films

As a new Netflix docu-series, The Romantics, pays tribute to the life and legacy of Hindi filmmaker Yash Chopra, we look at the visual grammar of his cinematic oeuvre that showed new India—growing rich, aspirational and hungry to dominate the globe

Vogue India • 27th January 2023

There’s never been a better time for oversharing on Twitter

Hanif Kureishi's tweets, sad tweets, mad tweets, real life boring life tweets and that old social media vibe

The Established • 19th January 2023

The slow rise of immersive art in India

Is it a gimmick for the Instagram generation or a transformative approach to digital art?

Vogue India • 23rd December 2022

The mega-angry women of Bollywood in 2022

Amidst all the testosterone-fuelled Indian cinema, some of this year’s most-watched films have revolved around women fighting tooth and nail for a life of dignity

Moneycontrol • 9th October 2022

The hunger and curiosity that Nirula’s built

Deepak Nirula, the man who turned Nirula’s into a fast-food behemoth, passed away on October 4, 2022. Here’s how he helped a country whet its appetite for food from around the world.

GQ Middle East • 24th May 2022

Why the Arab World is Infatuated With Bollywood

Popular Indian cinema has been loved in the Middle East for decades and, with storytelling in short supply, the obsession is set to burn even brighter.

GQ India • 20th April 2022

India’s most radical architect Vinu Daniel is getting even more radical

Creating poetic structures using local materials is at the core of architect Vinu Daniel’s practice. Now, in the busiest, most fertile phase of his career, he asks: Why are we building at all?

GQ India • 4th February 2022

Arooj Aftab's Poetic License

After two decades of composing and performing her specific brand of multiversal music, Lahore-origin, Brooklyn-based, Grammy-nominated artist Arooj Aftab is in heavy rotation

GQ India • 4th February 2022

Cover Story: Ali Fazal: The Alchemist

From starring in Kenneth Branagh's Death on the Nile this month alongside a sublime cast, to bagging the lead role in the prestige project Codename: Johnny Walker, Ali Fazal is officially Hollywood's favourite Indian actor. But the Lucknow-bred, Doon-educated artist remains deeply connected to his roots.

GQ India • 21st May 2021

Covid 19 & mental health: 23 ways to be mentally healthier in a pandemic

"Why me, why this, why now." It's an increasingly common strain of thought that psychotherapists are seeing in their clients these days. As the Covid 19 pandemic continues to take over our lives, and with increased severity in the second wave in India, they've also seen a spike in demand for their services: People of all ages reaching out for counselling sessions, unable to cope with the stress, fear, anxiety that living through a pandemic brings.

GQ India • 17th June 2020

Alok Vaid-Menon’s vision for a post-gender world

In the middle of a Pride Month unlike any other, we chat with the Texas-born, New York-based artist about their work and life in quarantine, the ebb and flow of social justice and equality for trans and gender non-conforming people around the globe, and why the idea of being one and many at once is the most natural thing in the world.

GQ India • 14th February 2019

Cover Story: Ranveer Singh is always on fire

Over a night of peddling Mumbai’s mean streets, Ranveer Singh plays master of ceremonies

GQ India • 28th November 2016

Inside the weird and bizarre world of desi male rights activism

Born on the streets and raised on the internet, a global movement to redress gender inequality in a post-Nirbhaya India is coming of age in a quiet corner of Telangana. Only, it’s not at all what you’re thinking

GQ India • 16th December 2021

Mumbai: Head to the new ingredient-first restaurant Ekaa

With 3 unique menus and the best cocktails in town, Ekaa gives fine dine new meaning