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Weekend Drive by Hormazd Sorabjee: Dibs on the backseat

India, Sept. 11 -- The electric iX1 has been a quiet sensation for BMW in India. Stretched for extra legroom and priced sharply, it ran away with the luxury EV market almost as soon as it landed. Now,... Read More


Rude Food by Vir Sanghvi: Why the avocado is like butter, but better

India, Sept. 11 -- Do you like butter? Of course you do. Who doesn't love the rich and fatty taste of butter? Not only does it taste great on toast, but it makes nearly everything you eat it with more... Read More


Season's eatings: How Indian menus are adapting to climate change

India, Sept. 11 -- The next time you pick up a menu, look for a secret hiding in plain sight. Seasonal food used to mean a chalkboard of mango specials in May. But as harvests get less reliable in the... Read More


Slam dink: Meet Harsh Mehta, pickleball's rising champion

India, Sept. 11 -- It's easy to dismiss pickleball as an unserious sport. The kind that privileged people play in hot-pink skorts and polo shirts at a bougie gymkhana. This might just be a branding pr... Read More


Drawing Room: Ayuesh Agarwal on Varad Bang's intimate portraits

India, Sept. 3 -- We live in an age where we constantly present ourselves through images, from carefully framed and filtered selfies to perfectly curated Instagram feeds. But where selfies are perform... Read More


Spectator by Seema Goswami: My life, my rules

India, Sept. 3 -- What are the things in life that you absolutely could not do without? Has the list always been the same, or does it change with the passage of time? Speaking for myself, the list has... Read More


Rude Food by Vir Sanghvi: Every flavour of India

India, Sept. 3 -- So here's the situation. It is 2006. You have guests from abroad. (Perhaps they are business contacts.) You need to take them out for dinner. They say they would prefer Indian food b... Read More


Second act: Gen-Z hunt for rare, sentimental fashion at thrift shops

India, Sept. 3 -- A red dress in Mumbai has already lived three lives. Its first owner wore it the evening she met the man she would marry. Its second and third each wore it to a date that went excep... Read More


Kick Back: Janmoni Konwar lost her home, but not her fight for gold

India, Sept. 3 -- Early on a Sunday morning in July, 17-year-old Janmoni Konwar was shaken awake by her frantic mother. The Brahmaputra River that marked the edge of their village, Bhogdoiporia, in As... Read More


Zen living: What to steal or skip from Japanese decor

India, Sept. 3 -- Japanese decor has won the internet. Our Instagram saves are full of wabi-sabi corners, shoji screens and impossibly beige and serene living rooms. We've pinned the Japandi aesthetic... Read More