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Saturday Feeling: Gen Z's superfast fashion, 'Stolen' review and other stories

New Delhi, June 7 -- It was at an airport a year ago, while chatting with a young UI/UX engineer who was on the same delayed flight, that I learnt about fashion cycles shrinking to two weeks. She work... Read More


Plot twist: Can the monsoon become urban India's hero again?

New Delhi, June 5 -- It had been a week of bad news-of water filling homes, streets, even a presciently named Aqua Line metro station. The early monsoon brought little more than grim headlines of floo... Read More


How data analytics has transformed cricket

New Delhi, May 31 -- I've never been much of a sports viewer, but headlines have always been my hook. So, while the records Sri Lankan bowler Muttiah Muralitharan set in the 1990s and 2000s meant litt... Read More


Adapting Art Deco to Indian climate, culture and design

New Delhi, May 24 -- One of the more interesting stories we have this week is on the village of Dharmaj in Anand, Gujarat, which has more than 120 Art Deco buildings that date back to the 1930s and '4... Read More


Holiday ideas in the southern hemisphere, neo-punk jewellery goes desi, new Kindle review, and other stories to read

New Delhi, May 17 -- We were heading back to the lodge in the Manyeleti Nature Reserve when the ranger called out "Teapot!" and pointed to the sky. After a day of learning bush-walk signals and identi... Read More


Anamika Khanna, Mondo Duplantis and 5 other stories to read this weekend

New Delhi, May 10 -- When we were planning the 2025 Fiction Special in January, we picked the theme 'War and Peace' for writers, contemplating the physical and metaphorical wars that had been raging a... Read More


Saturday Feeling: Stories and art for the child in you

New Delhi, May 3 -- There are ogres stapled to the floor-and they're the first thing that catch your eye when you enter the Karnataka Chitrakala Parishad in Bengaluru, where a huge exhibition, One Hun... Read More


Dalit History Month: Culture as power and other stories to read this weekend

New Delhi, April 26 -- All through April, Dalit History Month, the team at Lounge has been talking about ways to mark the contributions and resilience of the historically marginalized Scheduled Castes... Read More


Summer love and other essentials for a holiday at home

New Delhi, April 19 -- Summer for most of India is liminal-it seems to lurk at the ends, or beginnings, of every season. There isn't a time when we truly forget the heat, unlike northern Europe that s... Read More


Saturday Feeling: Falling in love with an AI chatbot

New Delhi, April 12 -- Look at all the lonely people. Where do they all belong? sang the Beatles in the '60s, nearly two decades before the internet was officially born. And in the age of AI, a bot ca... Read More