India, Sept. 16 -- It is mid-September, which means anyone covering consumer technology is operating strictly on adrenaline, coffee, and sheer muscle memory. In the trade, we call it 'Tech-tember', that manic stretch of the calendar where major hardware drops hit faster than you can draft a headline. But catching up with Anand Ahuja right after Apple pulled back the curtain on its new lineup immediately tilted the conversation into a much cooler, cultural lane.

Anand is, after all, the man who helped decode sneaker and streetwear culture for modern India, turning VegNonVeg into a cultural landmark. So when you put a boundary-pushing silhouette like the new foldable iPhone Duo alongside the workhorse iPhone 18 Pro in front of someone whos...