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An Indian Affair
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An Indian Affair

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

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July 02 2017
Varun Dhawan: 'Nepotism Exists In The Industry'
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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.

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July 02 2017
Romance or Horror?
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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.

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May 04 2017
Still Got It?
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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.

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May 04 2017
Lady Holmes
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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.

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May 04 2017
Meet The New Mani Ratnam Muse: Aditi Rao Hydari
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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.

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May 04 2017
Southern Star
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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.

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May 04 2017
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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.

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June 24, 2018
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Vir Das

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

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June 24, 2018
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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.

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June 24, 2018
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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.

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June 24, 2018
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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.

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June 24, 2018
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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

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June 24, 2018
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Fifty First Dates

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

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June 24, 2018
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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.

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June 24, 2018
Chitrangda Singh: A Star Is Reborn
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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.

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August 31 2015
Online World' Censorship
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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.

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October 27 2015
Why She Doesn't Want 'Good News'
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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.

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November 24 2015
Gauahar Khan: You Dont Need To Hurt A Women For TRP
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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.

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November 24 2015
Kutch: Salt Serenade
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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.

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November 24 2015
Shilpa Shetty: Fit and Fab at 40
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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.

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December 7 2015
Beauty Tips For Your Honeymoon
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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

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December 18 2015
11 Myths About Food: True Or False
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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.

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January 12 2016
How To Deal With Insomnia: Battle Against Wakefulness
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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.

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February 19 2016
Ayushmann Khurrana And Bhumi Pednekar: Two Of A Kind
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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.

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February 19 2016
Beauty Secrets Of Deepika Padukone
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Beauty Secrets Of Deepika Padukone

For this luminous star, nothing is more important than looking natural and feeling comfortable and fit. In a candid interview, she shares her simple but powerful beauty secrets.

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March 2 2016
How Healthy Our Vaginas Are?
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How Healthy Our Vaginas Are?

We might joke about men needing a GPS to locate the clitoris, but how many of us really know what’s down there and how healthy our vaginas are? 

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March 2 2016
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No Love, No Sex

Demisexuals don’t experience sexual attraction until they’ve made an emotional connection. Kimberley D’Mello explores the world of this overthinking tribe

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September 03, 2017
Grace Undimmed
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Grace Undimmed

Athlete, beauty queen, actor, social activist, politician, army wife and doting mother. Nafisa Ali Sodhi is the original boss lady.

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September 03, 2017
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Is Love Making You Fat?

Love is an exhilarating feeling, but all that bliss can weigh you down in the most literal sense.

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September 17, 2017