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Designer Ashish Gupta Discuss His Love For Collecting Vintage Fabric

The designer’s latest foray into homeware stitches together history, storytelling and poetry in an eccentric collection of blankets. He sits down with Caroline Issa to discuss his love for collecting vintage fabric, ’90s-inspired patterns and finding lightness in fashion.

Meet Shruti Kumar, The Musical Genius

Meet Shruti Kumar, the musical genius who helmed the recent Yoko Ono tribute that won the Internet.

Jasprit Bumrah Has His Game Face On

Meet cricket’s man of the moment who has bowled his way into our hearts.

Sara Ali Khan - Bollywood's Newest Belle On The Block

Sara Ali Khan, Bollywood’s newest belle on the block, is a picture of grace and sophistication. She talks to ELLE about her love of reading, the importance of family, and her vacation goals.

Collection That Offers Effortless Style Coupled With Ultimate Comfort

Clarks’ latest collection offers effortless style coupled with ultimate comfort.

Lisa Haydon In Love With Her New Body

Lisa Haydon Lalvani loves her new body and is listening closer than ever to what it needs. Here, the model, actor and mum-in-waiting tells Cheryl-Ann Couto how she’s killing time while she waits for her whole life to change this month

Hip To It

Fashion’s newest provocateur, the pelvage, is no less than a power move. And it favours the huge of Hip! Carol Singh gives you a peek.

Anurag Kanoria On How To Do Many Things At Once And Be Good At All Of Them

Anurag Kanoria, academic, art curator and creative force behind décor giant The Great Eastern Home, on how to do many things at once and be good at all of them. Aditi Gaitonde gets the blueprint.

How To Be Happy In 2017, By The Dalai Lama

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso Calls Upon Humanity to Defend the Planet. Dorothée Werner Meets the Sage and the Environmentalist. 

When Women With Full Faces And Plump Bodies Were The Epitome Of Beauty

Over centuries, men have convinced us that we are to like ourselves only in a form that is pleasing to them. But by doing this, we are not only responding to the male gaze, but also using it as a lens to view ourselves with and peg our self-worth against, observes writer Shunali Khullar Shroff. As she encounters some of the art world’s masterpieces in Paris, she is reminded that at one time,women with full faces and plump bodies were the epitome of beauty.

Leeza Mangaldas Will Help You Get Through Any Life Crisis

The straight-talking YouTube star Leeza Mangaldas will help you get through any life crisis.

Meet His Highness Maharaja Sawai Padmanabh Singh

Meet His Highness Maharaja Sawai Padmanabh Singh, the royal charmer in residence of Jaipur

What Really Is Beauty? And How Does One Perceive It?

What really is beauty? And how does one perceive it? As debates rage around the inclusivity of it (or lack thereof), seven voices offer their insights on a term that has been most-polarising this year

10 Reasons To Be Happy In 2016

After a year that was bookended by tragic terror attacks and dire climate change, Liesl Goecker went looking for some silver linings.

Low Investment Workout Tips

Fight your busyness trap and pick a low-investment workout. Mihika Pai makes every minute count.

8 Reasons Why Weightlifting Is A Must!

You might be killing it with cardio, but if you’re not also lifting weights, you’re not really working out, says Mihika Pai.

Big Love For Fashion: Abu Jani & Sandeep Khosla

Abu Jani and Sandeep Khosla are the original Indian maximalists, and Nikhil Thampi is an unabashed fan. The three designers talk across generations about finding canvases large enough to excite them.

Marion Cotillard: The Tempest

French actor and style icon Marion Cotillard on playing Lady Macbeth, wearing leotards (just a phase) and turning jewellery designer for Chopard.

Arundhati Roy "I'm On The A-List Of Anti-Nationals "

You know her politics, you know her fiction, but who is the woman behind the controversy? In an ELLE exclusive, Arundhati Roy talks to Aishwarya Subramanyam about writing, fighting and...aerobics?

Padma Lakshmi On Love, Sex and Staying Hungry!

In her frank and feminist new memoir, Padma Lakshmi retraces the journey until now — every bittersweet, fiery hot bit of it. Now, at 45, with levity and hard-won confidence, she’s heading right back for the unfamiliar, finds Vatsala Chhibber 

How Hawaii Influenced Madhuri Vijay's Book!

While working on her debut novel on Kashmir, author Madhuri Vijay found inspiration in the unlikeliest of places—Hawaii. Here, she writes on how their similar histories of accession and violence influenced her book.

Sonakshi Sinha - Stronger Than Ever

Sonakshi Sinha shares her wisdom on self-confidence, happiness and why perfection is a myth.

5 Confident, Fierce And Individualistic Women Who Ought To Run The World

Confident, fierce and individualistic—these five indomitable powerhouses are women who ought to run the world. Here, we catch them in their element in Shantanu & Nikhil's whimsical capsule collection.

A Night At The Cabaret

Maybe this will be my last night at the theatre, she thought, as she looked off stage at the empty seats and sighed.

Conflict Zone

Film-maker Ashvin Kumar’s latest attempt to tell the true story of Kashmir meets with predictable resistance

Boys Should Be Raised To Believe That Girls Are Their Equals, And, Sometimes Superior

Oprah is an emotion. She is one of those rare single-moniker icons who is synonymous with strength, passion, optimism, and above all, kindness. She radiates an intelligence that is intuitive, and an unstoppable hope. In a candid conversation with Supriya Dravid, she talks about the power of detachment, staying true to your core, and how self-actualisation can be empowering.

Beauty Expert: Adhuna Bhabani

The trailblazing hairstylist created some of the most iconic on-screen cuts in Bollywood, and made haute hair accessible to all.

Irregular Programming

An alternative art fair in the capital is attempting to take back power from the industry’s gatekeepers.

My Space

The eclectic art and fascinating curios that dot the Colorbar office are a reflection of its founder Samir Modi’s cheery personality.

The Arrival

Vicky Kaushal's rise from late bloomer at 27, to one of the country’s most promising actors in under three years, is the alchemy of talent, passion, patience…and more talent. And now that he’s earned both critical and commercial stripes, he’s claiming the out-and-out stardom that is his due. The uri star talks to film critic Rajeev Masand about this new—and quite often, strange—adjustment.