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24 Jan

Jaun Elia and Indian Youth: How a Defiant Poet Became a Cultural Obsession

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New Delhi [India], January 24: Jaun Elia did not arrive in India quietly. He arrived amplified. Through a microphone that was not his. For most Indian readers under thirty-five, Jaun Elia did not come from libraries, serious Urdu study, or the long lineage of Progressive Writers. He came through Kumar Vishwas. That is not an insult. That is a logistical fact. Cultural transmission rarely cares about purity. Vishwas didn’t reinterpret Jaun. He recited him. He named him. He repeated him on stages that reached places where Urdu poetry had not travelled in decades. Small towns. College auditoriums. Televised mushairas. You…

24 Jan

Homes With Opinions: Why Personalised, Experience-Led Luxury Is Rewriting Interior Design In 2026

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For years, homes were treated like showroom checklists. Neutral sofa? Check. Minimal lighting? Check. A marble countertop nobody actually uses? Naturally. Somewhere along the way, living spaces became less about living and more about impressing people who don’t pay the EMIs. That era is quietly—and slightly smugly—ending. As 2026 settles in, interior design is undergoing a philosophical pivot. Homes are no longer designed to look expensive; they’re designed to feel intentional. Personalised layouts, tactile materials, local craftsmanship, and story-driven décor are replacing cookie-cutter “luxury.” The modern home is becoming an experience, not a catalogue spread—and yes, it has opinions. This…

24 Jan

Spain’s Zonair3D is Advancing its ‘Made in India’ Initiative as Indoor Air Quality becomes a Central Focus in India’s Health Agenda

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Alessandro Dotti, Group Chief Executive Officer of Zonair3D and Royden Correa, Chief Executive Officer, Zonair Projects India Pvt. Ltd. (Z3D India) New Delhi [India], January 24: Zonair3D, a Spanish clean-air technology company, has renewed its long-term commitment to India with a plan focused on local growth. The company aims to make advanced indoor air purification more accessible in institutions, businesses, and high-end homes. This move comes as more people and organisations in India pay attention to indoor air quality and preventive health. Zonair3D’s strategy in India focuses on making its proven clean-air systems more available by working with local partners.…

24 Jan

Guns Are Bad, Bows and Swords Were Cool and Society Knows Why

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In ordinary, civilian life, society has made a fairly clear judgment without ever holding a formal meeting about it. Guns are treated as dangerous, uncomfortable, and in need of constant control. Bows, arrows, and swords, meanwhile, live comfortably in museums, sports, hobbies, stories, and backyard conversations about “cool historical stuff.” This isn’t because people are inconsistent. It’s because these tools interact very differently with normal life. Bows and swords existed alongside daily routines. People farmed, traded, raised families, and argued with their neighbors while these weapons were present. Most of the time, nothing happened. That mattered. Their presence didn’t turn…

24 Jan

Rules Were Optional Anyway: Why Gen Z Men Are Quietly Rewriting Fashion In 2026

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Menswear didn’t collapse in 2026. It simply stopped asking for permission. Somewhere between oversized knits, thrifted denim, pearl necklaces worn without irony, and shoes that look like they were chosen for comfort rather than approval, Gen Z men have decided something radical: fashion is not a rulebook, it’s a language. And languages evolve when people start speaking honestly. This shift didn’t announce itself with a manifesto or a runway rebellion. It arrived subtly — in metro stations, cafés, college campuses, startup offices, music gigs, and Instagram feeds that look less curated and more confessional. The result? A generation of men…

24 Jan

Taylor Swift and the Long Game of Pop Music

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Cambridge (Massachusetts) [USA], January 24: Taylor Swift has been explained to exhaustion. Charts, eras, reinventions, crowd sizes, revenue numbers. None of that is especially illuminating anymore. What actually matters is quieter and a little less flattering: she learned how to stay present without pretending growth is tidy. Most pop careers stall because the artist clings to a version of themselves that once worked. She didn’t cling. She adjusted. Repeatedly. Sometimes awkwardly. Early on, she was dismissed as temporary. A teenager with a guitar, a country accent that came and went, emotions that sounded pulled straight from a notebook you wouldn’t…

24 Jan

Mirza Ghalib: Why India’s Most Quoted Poet Is Still Its Most Misunderstood Mind

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New Delhi [India], January 24: Mirza Ghalib is treated like a relic. Framed. Sanitised. Quoted on calendars and WhatsApp forwards as if he were some polite uncle who happened to rhyme well. That version is convenient. It’s also false. The real Ghalib was argumentative, broke, vain, deeply insecure, intellectually arrogant, emotionally reckless, and almost permanently irritated with the world around him. Which is precisely why he still matters. Especially now. Especially here. India has a strange habit of embalming its thinkers. Once they’re dead long enough, we bleach out the mess and keep the aesthetics. With Ghalib, we kept the…

24 Jan

The Vision and Venture Behind Lucknow’s Most Sought-After Luxury Event Destination: Satnam Kaur

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Meet The Leadership Behind Lucknow’s Flagship Luxury Wedding & Events Destination- Satnam Kaur New Delhi [India], January 24: In Lucknow’s fast-evolving luxury and hospitality landscape, a new class of enterprises is quietly redefining how scale, elegance and experience intersect. At the center of this shift is Satnam Kaur, Founder and CEO of Sunny Palace, whose companies are steadily influencing the region’s contemporary celebration and experiential economy. Rather than positioning luxury as spectacle, Kaur’s businesses approach it as a system—where infrastructure, design intelligence, hospitality operations and cultural sensibility work in concert. Over the last decade and a half, this philosophy has…

24 Jan

Cupid Limited Makes Strategic Investment of INR 331.53 Cr in Baazar Style Retail Limited to Expand Market Reach & Accelerate FMCG Growth

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Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], January 23: Cupid Limited (BSE – 530843, NSE – CUPID) announced a strategic investment of ₹331.53 Cr in Baazar Style Retail Limited (Style Baazar), a well-recognised and established value retail chain that has been profitable as well as lean in operating 250+ stores across key markets in India. The investment to be made over 18 months, funded through internal accruals, marks a significant step in Cupid’s strategy to strengthen its retail presence, improve market access, penetration and accelerate growth across high-potential regions. This strategic investment provides Cupid Limited with direct access to a strong and rapidly expanding retail network, significantly enhancing the availability…

24 Jan

Short Trips, Sharp Intentions: Why India Is Breaking Up With The Annual Holiday

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Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], January 24: Once upon a time, the Indian holiday calendar revolved around one sacred event: the big annual trip. Planned months in advance, debated endlessly in family WhatsApp groups, negotiated around school schedules, office leaves, budget spreadsheets, and emotional blackmail. It was less a vacation and more a logistical operation. By 2026, that ritual is quietly losing relevance. Instead, Indians are scattering their escapes—long weekends here, midweek breaks there, sudden hill station detours booked on impulse and justified later. The era of the once-a-year grand vacation is being replaced by something more fragmented, more frequent, and far…