How India’s Festival Food Is Changing There was a time when asking what flavour of modak someone wanted during Ganesh Chaturthi would have produced a fairly predictable answer. Ukadiche. Coconut. Jaggery. Rice flour. Steamed. Then the modern Indian dessert industry discovered chocolate. And apparently decided that Lord Ganesha’s favourite sweet could have a much longer […]
Eating Kolkata During Durga Puja: A Festival Built Around Food, Community and Memory There are cities you visit to see. And then there is Kolkata during Durga Puja — a city you almost have to eat to understand. The lights come on, the dhaak begins, neighbourhoods turn into temporary works of art and millions of […]
When Algorithms Shape Your Wardrobe Once upon a time, fashion inspiration arrived through glossy magazines, television, shop windows and perhaps a particularly well-dressed neighbour. Today, it can arrive while you are scrolling through your phone at 11:47 p.m. A recommendation engine notices what you searched for. A creator demonstrates a particular look. An algorithm connects […]
$5 Billion for India’s Semiconductor Future: Why Applied Materials Is Expanding Here India’s semiconductor story has acquired another significant number. US semiconductor-equipment major Applied Materials plans to invest $5 billion in India over the next decade, under what it calls Applied Materials India Vision 2035. The announcement was made at SEMICON India 2026 in New […]
From Made in India to Invented in India: The New Technology Ambition For years, India’s technology story could be summed up in two familiar phrases: Made in India and Engineered in India. The first described the country’s manufacturing ambitions. The second captured India’s extraordinary rise as an engineering, software and research-and-development base for global technology […]
Indian Cinema Enters a New Pan-India Phase September and October 2026 are bringing an unusually varied Indian theatrical calendar, with Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and other-language films sharing the national release conversation. The change is bigger than a collection of release dates: Indian cinema is increasingly being marketed as a multi-language ecosystem rather than a set […]
From OTT to the Big Screen: What Mirzapur’s Movie Move Says About India’s Streaming Era When Mirzapur: The Movie opened in cinemas on September 4, 2026, it did more than extend a popular crime franchise. It tested whether an Indian story built for streaming could turn digital fandom into theatrical footfall — and the early […]
The Grammar of the Self: Kanchan Chander’s Five-Decade Journey Comes to New Delhi A major New Delhi retrospective brings together more than five decades of Kanchan Chander’s drawings, prints and mixed-media works, revealing how observation, memory and identity have shaped one of India’s distinctive printmaking practices. There are artists whose careers can be understood through […]
Belong in Mumbai: When Indian Craft Steps Beyond the Fabric At Experimenter in Colaba, Chanakya School’s “Belong” turns textile into landscape, sculpture and a meditation on ecology, memory and inherited knowledge — as Mumbai hosts three exhibitions marking 40 years of Chanakya and a decade of its School of Craft. There is a funny thing […]
BMW’s September Offensive Brings New Electric and Luxury Models to India BMW has turned September 2026 into a significant product month in India, launching the locally assembled i5 LWB before bringing updated versions of its flagship 7 Series and i7. The strategy places electrification, rear-seat luxury and local manufacturing at the centre of BMW’s Indian […]