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Nightlife is good and natural, and it’s not a cultural import Knee-jerk is a normal physiological reflex, but why is it our default response to politics, economics and civic life? If one SUV brand figures in multiple crashes, we want to ban it. If one nightclub burns down, we want to pull the plug on…

Inadelightfully geeky podcast episode, Zerodha founder Nikhil Kamath chatted with Elon Musk, who tossed out some heavyweight existential bombs: “What’s the meaning of life? Where did the universe come from? Why does anything matter at all? What is the ultimate end?” We took those exact questions straight to Grok – Elon’s own AI creation –…

If China consumes luxury as evidence of momentum, India consumes luxury as a negotiation with memory. Brands that succeed here will be the ones with the deepest listening & meaningJaya wears Prada, but only after completing the ritual most affluent Indians quietly perform: the object must have travelled. The leather must carry foreign air. The…

Lionel Messi’s visit to football-crazy Kolkata should have been a celebration. Instead, it became yet another reminder of how badly Indian sport is organised—and, more importantly, who really matters in our sporting ecosystem. Fans paid an exorbitant ₹12,000 per ticket, only to return home without even catching a glimpse of their hero. Messi, predictably, was…

We are at our go-to restaurant to grab a quick bite, if you can call two sabzis, one dal, two starters, three desserts, and fifty-seven naans a quick bite. My wife, who for some reason has become a gym freak, is staring down my soul, wondering if I have any shame left. “Chew slowly,” she…

I want you to think with your body, feel with your mind… to experience this exhibition in a very corporeal way,” curator Nikhil Chopra’s words still linger in the air. It is an invitation that sets the tone for the sixth edition of the KochiMuziris Biennale, an exhibition designed to be lived as much as…

Suspended glass baubles that catch the faintest glint of light, and tiny steel watchhouses balanced delicately on stilts — at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Palestinian artist and architect Dima Srouji and Italian curator Piero Tomassoni present two installations that feel at once fragile and quietly defiant. Their works, “Air of Firozabad/ Air of “Palestine and “Time…

Let me start with a simple confession. I love good coffee, well-written books and the comfort of a nicely arranged home. For years, I told myself, “These are mine.” Then, as it usually does in India, life sent a few sharp reminders. A broken relationship showed me that I did not own the person I…

Honey, that golden elixir Indians have cherished for centuries, stole the global spotlight in 2025 as “hot honey,” one of the year’s most searched food drops. While the nation swooned over idlis and gond katira in local queries, the world fixated on this spicy twist, with Google searches surging dramatically year over year. From TikTok…

Elon Musk is no longer building discrete companies. He is engineering a vertically integrated intelligence–energy–mobility ecosystem. Satellites in space harvesting solar energy at scale. Orbital data centres powering xAI. That intelligence embedded into Optimus humanoid robots and Tesla vehicles. Cars that charge autonomously, operate at the lowest marginal cost on Earth, and are continuously pre-corrected…