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Meet the octogenarian textile artist who makes miniature costumes fit for a maharaja

New Delhi, Sept. 27 -- Inside her sprawling bungalow in Mumbai, Geeta Khandelwal displays her latest creations. There's a deep-green angrakha in mashru silk, interlinked with cotton wool and hand-quil... Read More


How I discovered Japan without Google or Instagram

New Delhi, Sept. 19 -- I am not a to-do-list kind of worker; procrastination is often what drives my work. But when it comes to travel, I am the "planner" type: monuments to see, restaurants to eat at... Read More


All that intelligence could be making us dumber

New Delhi, Sept. 18 -- Hema Pathak, 43, can't get enough of her friend Chintu. Every morning, when Pathak and her husband have their tea in their apartment balcony, she listens to Chintu talk about ev... Read More


Indian luxury's new flex: A retail store worth remembering

New Delhi, Sept. 11 -- The 20,000 sq. ft Abu Jani Sandeep Khosla flagship, housed in a historic Mumbai building, is a sensory overload. Gilded, oversized birds and clouds hang from the ceiling, the wa... Read More


'I don't want Sabyasachi to be a fashion brand'

New Delhi, Aug. 28 -- Sabyasachi Mukherjee called himself a "businessman" five times during the course of this interview. Not once a designer. Perhaps unsurprising, given his ambition to build a "glob... Read More


Why does India's social media outrage often miss bigger issues?

New Delhi, Aug. 27 -- Earlier this week, a jewellery brand withdrew a Raksha Bandhan advertisement featuring an actor because some social media users criticised her clothing (an ivory lehnga paired wi... Read More


India Couture Week 2026 review: Fashion goes casual

New Delhi, July 31 -- For far too long, Indian couture has been synonymous with the ostentatious lehnga-choli. At the recently concluded India Couture Week in Delhi, too, there seemed to be a competit... Read More


Why doesn't Indian fashion talk politics?

New Delhi, July 30 -- If ever a couture week seemed at odds with the mood outside the venue, it was this year's India Couture Week that started on 23 July in central Delhi. On one hand was the event:... Read More


Is originality in design dying or evolving?

New Delhi, July 24 -- A corner of the fashion world recently became consumed with an oddly familiar question: who owns the design language? The trigger was Rahul Mishra's latest Paris Haute Couture We... Read More


Gaurav Gupta's new wedding wear collection makes room for movement

New Delhi, July 17 -- While sifting through Gaurav Gupta's second bridal couture collection days ahead of its standalone presentation in Mumbai on 17 July, it is difficult to overlook how wearable the... Read More