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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

THE GREAT RACE

Any other summer, Adar Poonawalla wouldʼve been aboard a yacht on the French Riviera. But Covid-19 upended all plans, and the CEO of the worldʼs largest vaccine company finds himself in the thick of the action

SUB- 2.00

It was one of sport’s great question marks: Is it humanly possible to run 26.2 miles – 42.1km – in under two hours? Then Eliud Kipchoge did it. What followed was international fame – and plenty of controversy. So we flew to Kipchoge’s ultra-rarefied Kenyan training ground to meet the man who pulled off the impossible

LUXURY BEFORE LOGOS

Where menswear brands come and go, their currency peaking and plateauing like stocks, the quiet coolness of Hermès has never really wavered. On a recent trip to Seoul, we met with Véronique Nichanian, the long-standing artistic director behind the most consistent, most coveted brand in men’s fashion today

FRENCH EVOLUTION

Its actual pronunciation might be tough on the upper palate, but Citroën’s cars are easy on the eyes, as they are on, well, everything else

A DISAPPEARING MAN

What Irrfan Khan left behind

THE Pioneer

Tarun Tahiliani has helped shape the contours of Indian fashion for more than a quarter of a century. He spoke to Phyllida Jay about moving in a new direction that’s really about taking a more considered approach

Daniel Craig On His Journey To Becoming Bond And After

For our money, he’s the best Bond yet – a searching soulful actor who managed to turn the campy secret agent into a three-dimensional character. Now as Daniel Craig’s final film as 007 nears, he offers some rare reflection on the franchise he redefined and the icon he reimagined in his own image

TOP GQ SHELF

LUXURY, FASHION, TRAVEL AND GROOMING IN STANDOUT STYLE

Play It Cool

In an era of wild style, all it takes is one good-looking statement maker to change your vibe and coolth from five to 50. Make the shift

Dream Sequence

Almost a decade into the game, Sayani Gupta is on track to transform herself from a multifaceted artist to a multidimensional one. But at heart, she remains an actor’s actor

Hot Stepper

If you’re not wearing loose cuts or leather shorts, silk shirts or DB suits, you’re doing summer all wrong

BLINDING LIGHT

Summertime madness with the slickest accents to boot

Next In Line

Zilzom may not be ingrained in your brain trust just yet, but haul it into your wardrobe to stay ahead of the curve

Mamba for Life

Thank you to a king

HELPING DATA THRIVE

Khalid Wani of Western Digital plainly says, “Data is the new oil.” And we couldn’t agree more. As director of channel sales, India, for Western Digital, Wani has exponentially grown the business over the last few years. In the last four years itself, Western Digital has gone from being a hard disk drive manufacturing company to one offering a range of data storage solutions, including personal cloud solutions, wireless storage, external storage, portable drives and home entertainment products. In an interview with GQ, Wani shares his thoughts on how the data boom in the country is fuelling the need for smarter, more innovative storage solutions and how Western Digital is filling that gap

Feelin' Good

Being happy takes work. Just ask Mandira Bedi. Here, she spills on what it takes to be your most authentic self

BRINGING XE BACK

Spruced-up looks and upgraded tech make this cub Jaguar the performance sedan to have

Mercedes-Benz Enters India's Virgin Luxury EV Territory

Mercedes-Benz is ready to claim virgin territory with its first, premium, all-electric car sub-brand in India

Meet The Star Next Door - Kartik Aaryan

He may not fit the stereotype of a Bollywood leading man, but Kartik Aaryan is proving to be a formidable force in the Hindi film industry. Arun Janardhan meets the ambitious, affable actor and discovers his secret sauce for success

THE POWERHOUSE OF PERFORMANCE

Global technology brand OnePlus celebrates six glorious years since its inception by cementing its position as the market leader in the Indian premium smartphone segment

Water Buddies

Hard-boiled tool watches have seldom looked this good

The Masterstroke

Pakistani-origin, New York-based artist Salman Toor wants to paint a world where the East and West harmonise