The Nod Mag

The resale boom is over. Homegrown labels are betting that the future lies not in chasing Nike, but in creating a category of their own


Looking for the perfect day-to-night tank? We asked models, a fitness trainer, and fashion people where they get their favourite ones

With his latest couture collection ‘Light Song’, the designer turns a forbidden romance between the sun and the moon into bridalwear for a generation that wants both tradition and fantasy at once

Plus, Chanderi on your kicks, lipstick on your mirror, and more of The Nod’s current obsessions

A case for roomy utilitarian bottoms that do it all but do no harm

The Sunshine State’s most compelling retail experiences are hidden in old Portuguese homes, unmarked ateliers, and studios that only open by appointment

Book clubs and international crime are not necessarily incompatible activities in this absurdly ambitious buddy action comedy series starring Hannah Waddingham and Octavia Spencer

Daniel Mason’s novel about two academics flirting with lawn mowing, skiing and farming in the countryside is funny, tender, philosophical—and the best thing you’ll read this year

Ultimate performative male or just misunderstood? Two Gen Zers share their assessment of ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ and one generation’s favourite teenager

An evening spent amidst the Syncopy-tee-donning, trivia-spouting, IMAX-theatre-mapping fans reveals there is Barbenheimer everywhere for those with eyes to see

No conversation with Sarnath Banerjee is straightforward. The graphic novelist discusses César Aira, ‘Citizen Kane’ and cricketing terms to talk about his new book that deals with memory, migration, and fatherhood

Delving into the Indian manosphere via a viral deepfake sex clip, ‘Fieldwork as a Sex Object’ is as much a sharp and witty novel about digital memory as it is about the ethics of storytelling

Olivia Wilde’s ‘The Invite’ packs the disenchantment and resentments of long-term love in one pressure cooker of an evening

Girls for Girls started as a community for those battling loneliness in Kochi. Today, it’s become a space where strangers find their tribe

No one asked for a family meeting. The cosmos called for one anyway

What does tomorrow look like when you’re still in school uniform and talk of AI dominates every conversation about jobs and the future? Bright, if you go buy what these teens and preteens have to say

Four drag artists—a lawyer, a doctor, an engineer and a fintech employee—open up about financial uncertainty, 9-5 jobs and their hope of coming out at work

Over four decades, Sunil Gupta has documented how queer Indians moved from secrecy and survival to inhabiting love, friendship, and domestic life on their own terms