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What's the secret sauce?

Beloved chefs are cooking up TV shows in new formats. It's a pity that so few manage to serve up the perfect dish

Is that a gun in your pocket?

Where does Citadel's Nadia Sinh fit in among our top on-screen spies?

Trending in uniform

Forget the shoulder pads, even sharp suits are softening up. See how power dressing is changing across workplaces

Logging out of love

How to spot the signs of quiet quittingina relationship, so the end won't comeasa sad surprise

Good Buy Or Goodbye?

As purchases pile up, Indians are realising they can do without some frills. See what they're giving up

A match but no flame

Should Sima Taparia break up with Indian Matchmaking? Her lack of success is telling

Locating the Lotus

After the Four Seasons hotels in Italy and Hawaii, The White Lotus is set to film in Asia next. There's plenty to choose from

Dharna productions

Social media star Dharna Durga is 22 and navigating fame one step at a time, but she knows exactly where she's going

If memory serves.

Kashmiri treats, Gowda favourites, homestyle Khasi meals. Regional cuisines are helping connect more than their communities

Refine your palette

Don't let galleries, abstracts and jargon intimidate you. It's never too late to build your own taste in art

The Imitation Game

It’s an odd but undeniable trait. Why do we mimic how people around us dress?

A top-down approach

The new Mercedes-AMG E 53 4Matic+ has a fabric roof and may just be the luxury convertible India has been looking for

Chicken à la King

Did you know that every coronation in Britain after Queen Elizabeth has a special royal dish? And, it's always chicken

The new jazz age

With new cool cats on the scene, jazz is giving musicians and listeners all the feels. Here's where you can begin again

Punching her way up

With her second gold at the World Boxing Championship, Nikhat Zareen is silently winning battles for women in India too

The end of an error

Getting divorced in your 30s can be daunting. But if you've made up your mind, here are tips from people who've been there

Four the greater good

Every experiment around the four-day work week has worked. Why hasn't India adopted it yet?

Distance Unlearning

Moved out of the family home? While parents deal with an empty nest, India's young people are grappling with guilt, fear and are feeling all kinds of sad feels

Abandonment issues

From exercise bikes to fat-loss patches, here are 10 fitness gadgets we bought in hope and discarded in despair

Going Out Of Your Mind

You don't need a dark corner or an empty mind to meditate. Just go about your day and find peace in the little things

How To Be Great In Bread

India is upping its sandwich game. Move past the sourdough clichés and gourmet fillings to see what's holding it together

A few foreign fumbles

India's attitude to Hollywood celebrities is a weird mix of reverence and revulsion. Surely we can work out a healthier mix?

Deol purpose

Why is Abhay Deol, who carried indie cinema through the 2000s, so quiet on the streaming scene? It's not about the money. The game's changed, he says. So has the meaning of courage

The FYI on TMI

In an age of online oversharing, here's how to stay on the high road and hold on to your privacy

Chic, without the clutter

Bye-bye, beige minimalism. Three experts say it's possible to builda capsule wardrobe for bright, shiny Indianwear too

Permanent markers

What kinds of tattoos have people been getting recently? We found 10 tats and the 10 beautiful, indelible stories they tell

The year of the bull

Lamborghini's newest offering, Revuelto, is a two-seater, plug-in hybrid supercar that will replace the Aventador

Photographic memory

Look carefully. A photo is really a portal, capturing a moment from the past, but also pointing to how much has change

The Not-So-Happy Meal

Why does the Indianised fare at international food chains taste so bad? When and why did the big chains drop their standards so terribly? Two restaurant consultants let us in on a few secrets

Think beyond sushi

All you need to know about Japanese food (and what makes it such a distinctive cuisine), in bite-sized portions