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newsletter issue 249

JANUARY 23, 2026

JANUARY 23, 2026

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Do you feel like you’re playing Tetris with your calendar everyday, trying to fill in every vacant spot with blocks, pretending you’re coping while your body quietly disagrees? This isn’t a personal failure or a productivity glitch. It’s collective burnout, normalised and renamed “busy”. New year, same shit, you might think. But there’s a reason why this year feels especially charged with energy—we’re on the threshold of the Year of the Horse. A Fire Horse, to be specific.


On February 17 the calendar turned to the Year of the Fire Horse, and subtlety will not make the cut. Over a video call, Scheherazade Merchant, a Feng Shui and Chinese Metaphysics consultant with over 25 years of experience, better known as Sherry, tells us why this year feels combustible and how you can avoid getting scorched.

Do you feel like you’re playing Tetris with your calendar everyday, trying to fill in every vacant spot with blocks, pretending you’re coping while your body quietly disagrees? This isn’t a personal failure or a productivity glitch. It’s collective burnout, normalised and renamed “busy”. New year, same shit, you might think. But there’s a reason why this year feels especially charged with energy—we’re on the threshold of the Year of the Horse. A Fire Horse, to be specific.


On February 17 the calendar turned to the Year of the Fire Horse, and subtlety will not make the cut. Over a video call, Scheherazade Merchant, a Feng Shui and Chinese Metaphysics consultant with over 25 years of experience, better known as Sherry, tells us why this year feels combustible and how you can avoid getting scorched.

 

 

 

Health

Health

It’s the Year of the Fire Horse, and burnout is imminent

It’s the Year of the Fire Horse, and burnout is imminent

This year’s Chinese zodiac energy is hot, relentless, and oddly thrilling. Here’s how to not get scorched in 2026

This year’s Chinese zodiac energy is hot, relentless, and oddly thrilling. Here’s how to not get scorched in 2026

Year of the fire horse 2026 chinese zodiac

Food

Food

Plus Nine One brings duck seekh kebab to Delhi

Plus Nine One brings duck seekh kebab to Delhi

By treading the middle ground between Indian flavours and international techniques, this restaurant in Kailash Colony is pushing the envelope gently but effectively

By treading the middle ground between Indian flavours and international techniques, this restaurant in Kailash Colony is pushing the envelope gently but effectively

Happy Patel cast

Entertainment

Entertainment

‘Happy Patel’ is great meme fodder. What it is not is “great cinema”

‘Happy Patel’ is great meme fodder. What it is not is “great cinema”

Vir Das’s directorial debut has pirouetted onto a screen near you, but the movie really belongs to the home theatre

Vir Das’s directorial debut has pirouetted onto a screen near you, but the movie really belongs to the home theatre


 

Fashion

Fashion

This tiny Hyderabad embroidery store boasts Sabyasachi and Manish Malhotra as clients

This tiny Hyderabad embroidery store boasts Sabyasachi and Manish Malhotra as clients

Meet the father-son duo running Afzal Miyan Karchob Wale, home to rare embroidery forms

Meet the father-son duo running Afzal Miyan Karchob Wale, home to rare embroidery forms

Afzal Miyan Karchob Wale, an iconic lace shop in Hyderabad where Tarun Tahiliani, Manish Malhotra, and Sabyasachi source their lace from
 

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