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How To Get The Hike You Deserve!

Asking for a raise can be an awkward, slippery slope. Suchita Parikh-Mundul has some guidelines to help you get the hike you deserve

Did You Know That Trans Fats Are Your Real Enemies?

Foods with trans fats are high on taste, and low on almost everything else. Neeti Jaychander has the information to put you off them once and for all

Stealing The Scene

Vyjayanthimala did what many thought was impossible for a south Indian actor: take Hindi film dom by storm. Neeti Jaychander studies a brilliant career of over two decades.

A Few Good Men

A revolutionist who plants trees each time a girl child is born in his village. An inventor who transformed the world of female personal hygiene. Three brothers who are combating gender-based violence and the trafficking of girls. In a day and age when newspapers are filled with reports on crimes against women, Anika Mohla meets the Indian men who give us heart by fighting the good fight

The Shy Extrovert

You’re too social to be an introvert, but too guarded to be the life of the party, either. Kannagi Desai gets to know the highly sensitive extrovert

An Indian Affair

Craftsvilla launched its third in-house brand Anuswara for the contemporary woman who enjoys India’s textile and print traditions.

Varun Dhawan: 'Nepotism Exists In The Industry'

The guy Karan Johar launched, the younger son of David Dhawan, and the youth icon who millennials find aww-dorable has another ace up his sleeve—he speaks straight from the heart. Presenting coverboy Varun Dhawan in his playful-meets-philosophical avatar as he chats with Tanya Chaitanya on life, love and how eventually the final judgement on an actor can only come from one place—the audience.

Romance or Horror?

To a commitment-phobe, all love stories are mildly terrifying. Hemchhaya De helps you fi gure out if you might belong to this tribe.

Still Got It?

Does he still drive you crazy in bed? Can he make you orgasm? Is the spark still alive? Harshita Dagha helps you find out.

Lady Holmes

Meet Pattathil Dhanya Menon, India’s first woman cybercrime specialist, who talks to Hemchhaya De about how she fi ghts crime in the virtual world.

Meet The New Mani Ratnam Muse: Aditi Rao Hydari

The camera loved dancer Aditi Rao Hydari from her first frame but it took her a while to return the affection. After living her childhood dream of starring in Mani Ratnam’s new Tamil film Kaatru Veliyidai, she tells Sandipan Dalal she can’t imagine being anywhere else.

Southern Star

Of the 14 contestants who made it to the fi nals of the Santoor Femina Style Diva South 2017, three lucky girls were declared winners on a night to remember.

Ranjan Bordoloi

THE WIZARD OF FORM The success of 27-year-old furniture designer Ranjan Bordoloi can be attributed to his love for using traditional metals and handcrafting techniques to create edgy pieces.

Vir Das

JUST FOR LAUGHS After leaving the Indian audience in splits, Vir Das now takes on the world, one joke at a time.

Neeraj Chopra

ON THE RIGHT TRACK Javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra, who won a historic gold medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, has only one aim now—winning a medal at the Tokyo Olympics in 2020.

Kshitij Marwah

CREATIVE GENIUS Kshitij Marwah, innovator par excellence, brought the MIT Media Lab to India, thus building a community of creators involved in making tech products that were never heard of before.

Manu Chandra

CREATING CULINARY MAGIC The chef partner at Toast & Tonic, The Fatty Bao and Monkey Bar, and executive chef at Olive Beach, Bangalore is clearly the man of the moment.

Come Again?

From what constitutes an orgasm to how to have more of them, Simran Ahuja brings you all you need to know about the Big O

Fifty First Dates

Tired of swiping through apps? Give speed dating a chance for some real connection.

New York Minutes

Just have a day to explore New York? Sandipan Dalal lays out a menu of sights, photo-ops, food and shopping to put you in an Empire state of mind.

Chitrangda Singh: A Star Is Reborn

At 39, Chitrangda Singh has set up a production house that is all set to make a biopic on an Indian champion, is raising a son she adores and has the kind of acting chops that puts most contemporaries in the shade.

Online World' Censorship

If youre on social media, its unlikely that you escaped the disturbing image of little Aylan Kurdi washed ashore on a beach in Turkey. What you probably did not come across was an eggplant emoji on Instagram because the platforms community guidelines dont allow it. Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan examines the confusing and inconsistent rules of censorship that govern the online world.

Why She Doesn't Want 'Good News'

Be sensitive to those who dont want children. Deepa Suryanarayan tells you five things child-free women hate hearing from people with kids.

Gauahar Khan: You Dont Need To Hurt A Women For TRP

The slapgate controversy, wardrobe malfunction and rumours of rigging a reality show Gauahar Khan has emerged unscathed through it all. She talks to Nairita Mukherjee about how she has dealt with everything lifes served up so far.

Kutch: Salt Serenade

Kutch is full of astonishing sights: from the vast, surreal white salt desert and carnivorous jackals that eat jaggery and rice to an eerie ghost village abandoned 200 years ago and a bustling port where ships have been built for centuries. Deepa Suryanarayan is gobsmacked.

Shilpa Shetty: Fit and Fab at 40

Shilpa Shetty Kundra opens up about a new decade of her life, turning her dreams into thriving businesses, writing her book The Great Indian Diet and dealing with the IPL ban.

Beauty Tips For Your Honeymoon

Once youve said your I dos, then what? Theres a fine line between going back to basics and sporting a gorgeous holiday glow in your photographs. Faye Remedios gets experts to decode your honeymoon beauty essentials

11 Myths About Food: True Or False

Are carbs evil? Is snacking late at night a bad habit? Turns out that there are many notions about food that you have been getting wrong. Priya Chaphekar fact-checks the most popular ‘truths’ at the table.

How To Deal With Insomnia: Battle Against Wakefulness

If you don’t snooze, you lose. But if sleep remains a distant dream, you need to tackle your insomnia post-haste. Suchita Parikh-Mundul equips you for your battle against wakefulness.

Ayushmann Khurrana And Bhumi Pednekar: Two Of A Kind

They struck the right chord with the audience the first time around in Dum Laga Ke Haisha. A year has passed since then, but the camaraderie is intact. Ahead of their second film together—Manmarziyan— Ayushmann Khurrana and Bhumi Pednekar talk to Nairita Mukherjee about love, romance, sex and everything that makes the world go round.