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Travel Like A Beauty Genius

Want to arrive at your destination looking fresh-AF? With the right kit and beauty know-how, you can off-set the damage even the stuffiest long-haul can do to your skin.

Editor's Letter

It’s likely that you have already established some work/weight/life resolutions for yourself.

Why Getting Depressed After Your Wedding Is A Thing

First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes...a tonne of ugly crying?

Let's Talk About Sexual Fluidity

It seems like more people—a slew of celebs, some of your friends—are no longer strictly hetero or strictly not. Katie Heaney explores the increase in elastic attraction.

How To Save A Girls Trip When Things Go Wrong

Hi, it’s your drama/disaster survival guide!

“IT'S 2020! WHY ARE WE ARE STILL ‘WONDERING' IF WE ARE FEMINISTS?”

Our guest columnist sheds light on the real meaning of feminism, and why we all, unequivocally, need to put our weight behind it.

‘I'm fearful of living in fear'

VAANI KAPOOR’S YEAR HAS BEGUN ON A HAPPY NOTE— WITH A FUN, (UNUSUALLY) SOCIAL HOLIDAY, AND HER FOURTH BOLLYWOOD FILM. THE ACTOR OPENS UP TO COSMO ON ALL THAT BECKONS IN 2020, AND WHY HER LOVE LIFE IS OUT OF BOUNDS...

Sex Robots Were Always Going To Be A Thing

They’ve been in the cards since Greek mythology. Did history already predict a future when one-third of our partners are computers?

A Beginner's Guide To Therapy (Because It Is A Thing You Can Do)

Think it might be time to talk to someone, but aren’t sure who? Here’s the lowdown on what’s available...

12 Cute Things Couples Can Do To Stay In Touch

Just because you can message them throughout the work day, doesn’t mean you should.

Is Your Job Toxic?

Hiding in toilets? Dreading the ‘ping’ of a new e-mail? Spending every night frantically scrolling through job sites? If you need out now, here’s how to navigate the trickiest of office scenarios.

WINDS OF CHANGE

The end of the year also highlights one’s hope for new beginnings... We got four authors to pen an exclusive short story each for Cosmo, centred on the same theme.

GIRL POWER! KANGANA AND ASHWINY

AHEAD OF THEIR BIG RELEASE—PANGA—IN JANUARY 2020, COSMO GOT THE WINNING DUO OF ACTOR KANGANA RANAUT AND WRITER-DIRECTOR ASHWINY IYER TIWARI IN THE SAME FRAME. FLIP THROUGH TO READ COSMO ED NANDINI BHALLA’S HEARTFELT CHAT WITH THE ACTOR ON LOVE, WHO THE REAL ‘KANGANA’ IS, LESSONS SHE’S LEARNT, AND WHAT 2020 HOLDS FOR HER. PLUS, ASHWINY REVEALS HOW SHE GOT INTO FILMMAKING, ON TEAMING UP WITH LIKE-MINDED WOMEN, AND WHAT IT WAS LIKE WORKING ON PANGA, WITH ITS BRILLIANT, FEMALE-DOMINATED CAST.

ARE YOU A MODERN-DAY GYPSY?

Tired of the same ol‘ rut of life? Maybe it’s time to embrace the free-spirited nomad in you. But before you hit the road, know this about the lifestyle...

5 MINUTES WITH MALAIKA

In town to launch Reebok’s new concept store, Fit Hub 3.0, Malaika Arora spilled the tea to Cosmo on fitness, beauty, fashion, and a few other secrets...

Can You Retrain Your Body Clock?

Experts claim they can turn night owls into early birds in just 21 days. Laura Silverman put it to the test.

Can Retinol Change Your (Skin's) Life?

It’s basically God’s gift to the beauty world—and the only ingredient proven to Benjamin Button your face. Intrigued? We thought so. Here’s the deal.

How To Take Criticism…And Get Promoted

Receiving constructive criticism on your work can be terrifying. But do it right and it can be a career game-changer.

Body Language Signs That Mean He's Into You

See if he’s into you before he even opens his mouth.

Unravelling Tantric Sex

Yes, it’s a thing! We’ve got tips that will elevate your average bedroom sesh into a soul-stirring one.

In Good Faith

Founded as a safe haven for Indian LGBTQIA+ Muslims, to talk, share, and heal, today The Queer Muslim Project is a movement: a coterie of more than 13,000 followers from all over the world, reshaping the ideas of diversity and inclusion. Founder Rafiul Alom Rahman elaborates...

This Girl Is On Fire

WITH back-to-back BLOCKBUSTERS and two NEW films in the PIPELINE, 2019 has BEEN AN exceptionally GOOD YEAR for SHRADDHA KAPOOR. The fresh-faced STAR lets us in on her EVOLUTION as an ACTOR, her INSECURITIES, and THE ONE responsibility WOMEN have towards each OTHER, all while SPORTING the season’s HOTTEST BEAUTY TRENDS.

Do Jade Rollers Work?

We got two derms to duck out the question that’s been on your mind ever since you saw you favourite influencer work this tool.

Life Beyond The 'Gram

When you don’t post a picture hustling in a café, or partying at a club, do you feel like you haven’t really lived that moment?

World Through The Viewfinder

Best known for their hardhitting, women-centric documentaries—spotlighting the stark realities and brutal stereotypes around the gender—these filmmakers say it like it is, both on-screen and off it.

Your Sex Calendar For All Seasons

Use these hot tips and new moves for a firecracker bedroom sesh all year long.

Art For A Cause

Eight Indian artists who use the brush to make powerful pieces works. They address pressing issues and raise awareness, one beautiful artwork at a time.

“I Am A Public Figure, Not Public Property”

Taapsee Pannu is not your ordinary movie star. An outsider in an industry infamous for cliques, she has slowly and steadily carved a niche for herself—with a career conspicuous with unconventional projects, a life marked with instinctive choices, and a mind she’s not afraid to speak.

“A Year After Section 377 Was Scrapped...”

On 6 September 2018, the Indian Supreme Court decriminalised gay sex. Cosmo columnist—an outspoken Indian lesbian—looks back at how things have changed (or not) since...

“I Need To Speak Up More About What I Want.”

Just over a year into Bollywood, Janhvi Kapoor is busy learning and unlearning the ropes of the business, while also exploring life and its many intricacies. In a candid chat, Cosmo Ed Nandini Bhalla unravels the actor’s many layers to discover a remarkably passionate, a wee reckless, and an unabashedly, unfiltered artist.