Festive Styles

There is a particular kind of October evening that only British Navratri knows. You leave the house in a puffer coat over your outfit, park three streets away from the…

Navratri looks different in New York than it does back home. The crowds are more diverse, and the energy carries a certain electricity that comes from celebrating something deeply personal…

There is a sound that marks the start of Durga Pujo before anything else does. The dhak. Somewhere between that first beat and the conch shells at Sandhi Puja, wardrobes…

Some collaborations feel inevitable before they even happen. Abhinisha Jani Ashara has spent her platform teaching women to love their bodies without asterisks, without apology, without waiting for permission, so when…

Some outfits whisper. Sonam Kapoor’s latest doesn’t, it recites poetry. For her most recent appearance, the actor traded her usual palette-play for total blackout, letting a single, spectacular anarkali carry an…

Janmashtami in the diaspora has a rhythm all its own; temple aartis that start after the American workday ends, community dahi handis in a parking lot instead of a Mathura lane,…