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The Good Word Of Gucci Mane
Trap’s reigning kingmaker has never felt freer. Now he’s ready to get busy at becoming a legend.
Wild Things
There’s a new adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book on screens this month – and it’s going to hit a lot closer to home than you’d expect.
Fasting, Feasting
Meet the Indian film-maker who made his dad’s village cooking a YouTube sensation.
Nocturnal Animal
Over a night of peddling Mumbai’s mean streets, Ranveer Singh plays master of ceremonies and is, as always, on fire.
Packing A Punch
Here’s how to do Monaco right in 2019.
GQ Gentlemen's Club
In an era marked by manic competitiveness and relentless self-promotion, Chennai represents a refreshing return to old-world values: respect, integrity and camaraderie. And somehow still manages to have a wild side. (It helps to have a languorous coastal road that’ll help you escape the city on a whim.) Four illustrious gentlemen – Tamil superstar Vikram Prabhu; race car driver Armaan Ebrahim; former India batsman S Badrinath; and designer Vivek Karunakaran – joined occasionally by photographer Kunal Daswani, came together at the opulent Leela Palace Chennai to reveal why the city by the sea swings to its own beat.
Spike Lee Made The Movie We Need Right Now
With the Oscar-nominated BlacKkKlansman, the legendary director returns to the subjects he’s helped define for a generation of film-goers – racism, power and the inescapability of history. It’s a film that feels vital to the Trump era, even though, as Lee knows, the story behind it stretches back decades.
Set In Stone
How does an architect aesthetically negotiate rows and columns in the world’s fastest-growing economy – but also do it sustainably? Anagram Architects founders Vaibhav Dimri and Madhav Raman have a master plan for minimalism.
A Short Man's Guide To Higher Style
So you’re not exactly Thor-sized. But a great fit trumps vertical stature any day. Let GQ show you how to dress if you’re on the shorter side.
The Great High School Imposter
What Artur Samarin pulled off at a school in small-town Pennsylvania is one of the boldest hoaxes of our time
A Cut Above
Shantanu & Nikhil have pulled off a menswear coup. In four short years, the designer brothers have established themselves as leading game players with a vintage India aesthetic that finds favour with the modern man. Now they r̓e ready to take on the world
Bold And Boundless
Every festival season brings with it a fresh wave of genre-agnostic musicians, each more experimental than the last. GQ picks three favourites from the class of 2018 who’re leading lives as unorthodox as the music they’re playing
Full House
Kolkata-based Jungle Crows Foundation is deploying the power of sport – in this case, rugby – to empower youth from disadvantaged communities and see to it that the kids are all right
A League Of Her Own
The IPL has created household names in cricket, made a ton of money for sponsors and cemented a place in every global sports fan’s calendar for the past 12 years. It’s well past time that India’s women cricketers enjoy success too.
A Tale Of Two Leagues
A chance encounter led Abhishek Bachchan to snap up a team in the country’s Pro Kabaddi League in 2014. He followed it up with a football team in the Indian Super League a few months later. Arun Janardhan catches up with the part-team owner, strategist-in-chief and easy-going sports guru
Changing Of The Guard
There’s a new wave of Dalit Pride taking over the country, on the streets and in the cultural zeitgeist. Simrit Malhi spoke to the millennials who are determined to change the way we think about caste one album, Tumblr account and book at a time
The Beat Is On
As another party season rolls around, GQ gets the inside dope on the Indian (and Indian-origin) DJs and producers serving up the biggest bangers and dominating the rave and hip-hop scenes, in India and abroad. (Bonus: All the gear you need to make your own viral cuts).
Watch Water Baby
Somewhere in the 70 years since its creation, the Omega Seamaster went from a dress watch with a few tricks up its sleeve to a bona fide amphibious wonder. Here’s how it happened.
Block Party
The best emcees might be the ones that have a unique way with words, but they tell only half the story. Meet Sez On The Beat, the producer scoring the rise of India’s hip-hop scene.
Time Machine
The complex mechanism that works silently in the backdrop of the Asian Games is as mindboggling as it is precise.
The OGs
Aamir Khan on the next generation of superstars, the #MeToo movement in India and that time he watched Wonder Woman with Amitabh Bachchan.
A New Dawn
On the verge of completing four decades in fashion, Rohit Bal is showing no signs of slowing down.
The Different Sides Of Sanjay Dutt
In the last 15 years, Rajkumar Hirani has directed a mere five films – each bigger than the last, and each featuring oddball characters who take on the system with an arsenal of child-like humour and optimism. Which is why his latest, a biopic on the explosive life of Sanjay Dutt, might be his most challenging project yet.
All Heart
We’ve always known Prateek Kuhad had the songwriting chops to make the entire country swoon. Now, he’s learning how to sell it.
Cause And Effect
A band of scientists from all over the country, calling themselves the Breakthrough Science Society, and led by Professor Soumitro Banerjee, are fighting for their right to proof in a post-fact world.
Cyber Citizens
As the debate over net neutrality sparks up again in the West, Nikhil Pahwa, co-founder of the Internet Freedom Foundation, talks victories of the past and the new challenges of keeping the Web-wide open.
Cult Classic
A new-age, ultra-thin tourbillon meets the old-world Breguet aesthetic.
Is This The World's First Amped−up Super Limo? We Think So...
The age of the extra-luxe electric vehicle has arrived, and the game-changing Vision concept from Aston Martin Lagonda is leading the charge.
Under World
Leave it to the king of sex, Tom Ford, to re-invent the first thing you put on every day and the last thing you take off .
Difficult Women
Why the #Metoo movement hasnt reached Bollywood yet