Just URBANE Magazine - June - July 2021

In this issue

18
Shashi Tharoor
Will India's vaccine blunder cost the citizens dearly?

22
Luke Coutinho
Do not mess with your testosterone levels

26
LV Mens Collection
A splash of colour

34
Fashion Fluid
Fashion is no more biased and evolving beyond extent

40
Rockstar trio
Know what keeps Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy united

50
Explore the Unexplored
In conversation with John Spence

56
Mental Health: CHECK!
Hope you're fighting your mental health battles in times of covid.

60
Classy & Sheek
Ralph Lauren's summer 21 collection is all things cream and elegance

68
Namrata Purohit
Decoding Pilates

74
Limerick
Don't let the prints go away

78
Sunidhi Chauhan
It's all about making a mark in the Indie music space

82
Audi S5
It could be your go to friend

88
Audi E-TRON
The E-Tron is much more than a Q5

94
Audi A4
Audi A4 has arrived with new gloves in the ring

98
Word from home
Interview - Head of Audi India

102
Arunachal Drive
Exploring the land of rising sun

108
TVS RR 310
Like Monday lunch, just better

112
Safe Retreat
Latest addition to Cantiere del Pardo’s family

120
Snooze-IT
Reminder to treat yourself with a new timepiece

126
Celebratory Drinks
Drinks for every occasion

130
Japnese Whisky
The risky journey of a whisky

136
Urbane Luxury
Your monthly dose to lead the luxe life

140
Luxe Interiors
Making every corner beautiful in your home

144
Hastens Luxury Matteress
For the best sleep that money can buy!

148
Sans Souci
Bringing you the ultimate beauty of lights and interior design with utmost luxury
explore

150
Spain
Espana te espera

156
PullMan Bunker Bay resort
A life-changing experience

162
Last Word
In conversation with a motorcycle. You read that right!

FROM A SHOT IN THE ARM TO A SHOT IN THE FOOT - INDIA'S VACCINE BLUNDER

Dr Shashi Tharoor regrets that he sang premature praise about India’s vaccine diplomacy two months ago. How did everything go so wrong so soon after India recovered from the first wave of the pandemic last year, resumed normal life and economic activity, and started exporting vaccines?

4 mins

LOOKING AT THE BRIGHT SIDE

Virgil Abloh continues his theme of a sense of the infinite, with a collection designed to bring color to the summer season, from dawn to dusk...

2 mins

THE FUTURE IS FLUID

Inclusivity and sustainability have been runway constants for a while now, but co-ed collections have swiftly become the norm in fashion. It is all about breaking boundaries in genderless clothing…

4 mins

MUSICAL MUSKETEERS

From completing each other’s sentences, to continuing with the same thought process, Shankar-Ehasaan-Loy’s camaraderie is something that you just cannot miss. Even after 25 years of making music together, the trio is not done belting out hits

8 mins

THE ROCKSTAR HOTELIER

We chatted with John Spence, owner of international travel and lifestyle brand Karma Group on his fascinating journey spanning decades and continents, the future of the travel industry and why luxury means simplicity to him

6 mins

Health Check In Times Of Covid

With the second wave of corona virus hitting our country, staying inside our homes again has taken a toll on our mental health. Here's what can be done.

4 mins

FITNESS FRILLS FROM THE PILATES QUEEN

Namrata Purohit, Pilates trainer and author of The Lazy Girl’s Guide to Being Fit, talks about celeb clients, busts myths, decodes Pilates, and reveals her fitness mantra

6 mins

THE PARADIGM SHIFT

Audi let us live in the future with their all-electric SUV, the e-tron. But did it also make us live in the past with its performance?

4 mins

WORD FROM HOME

Head of Audi India, Mr Balbir Singh Dhillon delineates Audi's current momentum, business plan, customer approach and much more...

9 mins

THE WATCHLIST

Far out in an untraveled territory of the spiral arm of atomic hydrogen, lies a known but an unperceived star called the ‘Sun’. Orbiting this star at a distance of more than 90 million miles is an utterly significant little blue-green planet; whose ape descended life forms are so phenomenally primitive, that they still think that a timepiece is still not a pretty idea

3 mins

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Just URBANE Magazine Description:

URBANE is a monthly magazine published by Million Media. URBANE is a lifestyle magazine for the thinking-doing-achieving man of India, citizen of the world. Focused on bringing forth some of the best, most real and most rewarding experiences and objects money can buy, URBANE is all about inspiring its readers to enrich their own lives.