From Meghan Markle's iconic NARS blush to Kim Kardashian's favourite drugstore mascara, these are the beauty products celebrities have publicly shared they genuinely use, backed by their own interviews and verified appearances.
AK|OK, the ready-to-wear label from Anamika Khanna, has launched its first international collection, AKOK Resort, in an exclusive shop-in-shop at Selfridges London, a move the brand frames as a landmark moment for contemporary Indian design on the world stage.
There was a stretch of history, several thousand years of it, when the wrong person in a purple robe could be executed for the offence. The color surrendered its exclusivity not to a rival empire but to an eighteen-year-old who was trying to make something else entirely.
Every "CEO reading list" article on the internet tends to repeat the same handful of titles regardless of who is credited with them. The ten picks below are different because each one traces back to a specific moment, a tweet, an interview, a blog post, where the person actually said it.
Five Indian CEOs, five books, and the exact interview or tweet where each one said it mattered. From Nikhil Kamath's reading list to the tweet Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw sent fellow founders.
For a long time, the fantasy that Indian children grew up on came from somewhere else. The wizards were British, the enchanted forests were European, the children having the adventures had names no one in the house shared, and while none of that dimmed the pleasure of the reading, it did quietly suggest that magic happened elsewhere, to other people. That is changing, and one of the more heartening developments in Indian publishing over the last few years has been the arrival