OUR BEST SHOT

Around the world, scientists are developing vaccines for Covid-19, with some banking on using mRNA, a brand new technology, to get us there faster

PERFECT PRACTICE

Jay Shetty, the 33-year-old self-help guru and influencer, is streamlining age-old wisdom for the millennial mind and reminding us of the importance of being at home with our troubled selves. As he adds “author” to his repertoire with a new book, he talks to Nidhi Gupta about the paradoxes of being a preacher in the age of the internet

CASA TRANQUILA

Latin music superstar J Balvin crafts a pair of eminently quiet, contemplative refuges in his native Colombia with the help of Medellín-based design firm 5 Sólidos

Role Call

Actor and producer Vivek Gomber is kicking off September in high gear with a film, The Disciple, in competition at the prestigious Venice International Film Festival. He’ll also be seen in Mira Nair’s A Suitable Boy, dropping on Netflix later this year. Arun Janardhan caught up with the Arsenal fan who’s been waiting in the wings for a decade and a half – and whose time is now

LEVEL UP

As we await the impending arrival of the Series 6, here’s a look at all the new updates that Apple Watch users – Series 3 and upwards – can look forward to

Ally Nation

A decade after Gay Bombay made a splash, and two years after Section 377 was read down, LGBTQ+ icon Parmesh Shahani casts a queer eye on the ergonomic route to inclusivity

It's A Great Time For Men To Do Housework

Coronavirus has meant a huge increase in necessary housework and child care. For the sake of your relationship, figure out how to split it up fairly

UPPING THE ANTE

The Kia Carnival may have the chops to kick off the luxury MPV parade. But can it start a revolution?

THE Souza Evolution

In a fascinating story that spans multiple generations and continents, as well as reflects universal human themes of migration, dislocation and identity, Vivek Menezes traces the ascension of muralist, graffiti artist and painter Solomon Souza, the Jerusalem-based grandson of the great modernist legend FN Souza

THE GREAT NEXT MIGRATION

Life on the planet is on the move – the plant kingdom, wild animal species and people. But far from being a disruptive behaviour, as popular media would have us believe, migration is, in fact, an ancient and lifesaving response. In this excerpt from her new book, The Next Great Migration, award-winning writer Sonia Shah talks about why the world needs to reimagine such movement as a solution, rather than a problem.

THE GENRE BENDERS

A round-up of the most unusual graphic novels of 2020

STAYING IN THE GAME

How to be your own coach

SCREEN FOR DAYS

Among the bumper crop of smartphones this season, the Oppo Reno4 Pro is a standout device

Party HAT

Is the new Mercedes-Benz GLC Coupé a style-led affair, or a genuine cocktail of cool?

CROSS currents

A well-told story is going to be a straight hit, regardless of language, scale or budget. As you might’ve discovered during your quarantine binge-watch, it’s an axiom upheld by a bold new generation of film-makers and actors from the South Indian film industries. Few others are systematically scripting content that is hyperlocal and aesthetically global all at once, and helping unfamiliar audiences caper past that “one-inch-tall barrier of subtitles”. Meet five eminently watchable actors fronting Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada cinema, as they dwell on their extraordinary journeys and why, pandemic or not, breaking the mould is a full-time job.

BEAT HOLLOW

Pandemic or not, Prabh Deep’s quest for perfection – in body, soul, sound and words – carries on uninterrupted. As the rapper and producer prepares his next album, he tells Nidhi Gupta about this phase of evolution in his life and career

The New Rules of Fatherhood

Ten hacks for surviving – and enjoying – being a dad

FULLY CHARGED

An EV with emotion? The Mini Electric aims to bring nostalgia and heritage into the future

The New Old Order

This year, Audemars Piguet has dug deep into its past, and struck gold

IN THE WAKE OF GLOBAL CRISIS, THE WORLD'S LUXURY GOODS WILL REDISCOVER THEIR TRUE VALUE

It’s a crisis the first blows of which were felt in China and Italy, two key nodes in the web of high-end global commerce... But as GQ Luxury Editor Nicholas Foulkes explains, though its weaknesses are laid bare by Covid-19, so too are the strengths of a sector that is far more than the sum of its balance sheets

MAGIC MIKE

Lessons from the epic Michael Jordan docu, The Last Dance

HAT TRICK

Will Hilary Mantel win the Booker for an unprecedented third time?

DUST BUDDY

Royal Enfield has just set up a school for riding. The kind you don’t want to skip

FIGHT CLUB

After a superlative act in Anurag Kashyap’s Choked, actor Saiyami Kher is ready to square off – but her realm of action is already far bigger than you’d imagine

ALPHA ASCENDING

The Audi A8L has arrived fashionably late. Does it have the technological edge it needs to steal the show?

A WHOLE NEW WORLD WORLD

Nostalgia makes way for the neoteric with Lapis, The Oberoi Bengaluru’s contemporary-cool new restaurant

The More Exhaustive Home Workout Routine Is Here

Make the right moves, and you could emerge from this period fitter than ever

The Anxiety Artist

After a career of close misses, it was his disturbing performance in subversive supervillain study Joker that earned Joaquin Phoenix a shelf full of gold from an industry he once tried to alienate. Here, in search of an actor who leans on fear, refuses to rehearse and holds tragedy close, we look past that bear-trap smile to the man writing Hollywood’s most enigmatic story

15 Things To Look Forward To In This New World

In an Age of Disruption, the novel coronavirus has proved itself to be the mother of them all. Most of the globe has been in some version of a lockdown for over three months now. During this time, a few changes have been accelerated – our dependence on tech in all aspects of our lives (hi Zoom, IG Live) – whereas others are new, such as the idea of physical and social distancing. But people and businesses alike are also adapting, resetting and rebooting, and harnessing new opportunities to imagine what the world could look like. GQ’s editors cast their eye over this vastly altered landscape – and tell you where we’re headed.

The GHOST With The Most

Meet Smokey the Ghost, the longtime Bengaluru emcee who pushes socially conscious rhymes with mass appeal