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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

We use the word vanilla to mean ordinary, the safe and unremarkable choice. It is one of the least accurate things the English language does, because vanilla is the second most expensive spice in the world, and almost every pod of it is pollinated by hand. Open a jar of good vanilla and the room changes before you have done anything with it. The scent arrives warm and dark and slightly boozy, sweet without being sugary, with a smokiness underneath that perfume houses have cha

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.

At the top of fashion, the thing being paid for is rarely a name on a label. It is a fibre, a skin or a resin so scarce that nature has already decided how little of it can exist.

We have covered /PHD/ Proven Honest Derma before and every product from this brand has impressed us. The 0.3% Pure Retinol Face Serum is no different. Fragrance-free, milky in texture, and genuinely suited for every skin type in the house.

What expires, when, and the small symbol on the packaging that has been telling you all along We spend a great deal on makeup and use surprisingly little of it. A lipstick is bought for one occasion and worn twice; a foundation is replaced before the bottle is half empty; an eyeshadow palette is used for a single shade and kept for years on the strength of the other eleven. The collection grows, most of it sits, and somewhere in the middle of it the products quietly expire wi

How a small princely state in Uttar Pradesh built one of India's most refined cuisines, and then very nearly lost it Roughly a hundred and fifty kilometres east of Delhi sits a town most people pass through without stopping. Rampur has no monument that draws crowds and no dish that has travelled the way biryani or rogan josh have travelled, and if you ask a reasonably well-fed Indian to name the great regional cuisines of the north, Rampur is unlikely to come up. This is a pe

We received this product for review from the brand. Monsoon is genuinely one of the worst seasons for hair. The humidity weakens roots, the scalp gets oily faster, hair fall increases, and finding a product that actually helps rather than weighs everything down is harder than it sounds. The Oshea Herbals Rosemary Hair Growth Spray arrived at exactly the right time, and two weeks in, it has made a quiet but noticeable impression.

Arpita Mehta takes her signature mirror work to the couture runway for the first time with Ceremonial, her debut collection at Hyundai India Couture Week 2026. Drawing on Bandhani, Banarasi, and tissue, and introducing Kantha for the first time, she treats India's heritage textiles as living crafts rather than artifacts in a color story that travels from soft neutrals into violet and sindoor red.

We received this product for review from the brand. Monsoon is genuinely one of the worst seasons for hair. The humidity weakens roots, the scalp gets oily faster, hair fall increases, and finding a product that actually helps rather than weighs everything down is harder than it sounds. The Oshea Herbals Rosemary Hair Growth Spray arrived at exactly the right time, and two weeks in, it has made a quiet but noticeable impression.

We received this product for review from the brand. Dipsy is a name we have covered before with their debut Malli Malli moisturizer, and Teja Mandara is their second launch, a gel-to-milk double cleanser and makeup remover built around Indian botanicals. Given how much we appreciated the thought behind Malli Malli, we came to this one with genuine curiosity.

Ethimo and Studiopepe's new Coppe collection strips the vase back to its purest form, a seamless concrete vessel with handmade texture, continuing their ongoing outdoor design collaboration.

Ethimo's new Nida dining chair, designed by Chiara Andreatti, takes the humble rush-seated chair, the kind you'd find in an old countryside kitchen, and gives it a completely contemporary outdoor makeover, built to hold up beautifully season after season.

Cattelan Italia's new San Marco ceiling lamp takes its cues from centuries-old Venetian glassmaking, translated into a piece that feels as much like a sculptural object as a light fixture. The oval glass shades come in two soft, unexpected hues, kiwi and peach, each one blown using techniques associated with Murano's glass tradition.

Cattelan Italia's new Matera collection, designed by Studio 28, is built on a simple idea: your coffee table shouldn't have to stay in one place doing one job. The set comes in three shapes and sizes that can be mixed and matched depending on the day, sitting front and center in the living room one moment and tucked beside the sofa or a favorite reading chair the next.

knIndustrie's cutting board collection, Barrique, S/Lab, and Essenze, is designed to move from prep station to dinner table without missing a beat, each piece built around its own material and its own personality.

Most of us have only the vaguest idea of what happens to our food once we have swallowed it. We know it goes somewhere, and we trust that the body will sort it out, and beyond that our curiosity tends to stop at the plate.

Anyone who has worked under a manager who treated people as levers to be pulled knows the particular exhaustion it produces. There is the colleague who withholds praise on purpose so you keep working for it, the boss who plays two team members against each other and calls it healthy competition; and the quiet manipulations dressed up as strategy that everyone can feel even when no one can quite name them.

PoMo presents Alien Terrain, the first solo exhibition in Norway of American artist Ken Price, bringing together 14 late-period ceramic and bronze sculptures that sit between bodily form and imagined terrain.

Australian suncare brand Airyday has launched in the UK with six wearable SPF 50 "Skinscreens," aiming to close the gap between how much people care about skincare and how rarely they actually wear sunscreen.