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Monday, February 23, 2026
TopicCostume design

Topic: Costume design

Bollywood’s new costume king. He’s creating the biggest looks—Gangubai to Pushpa & Manto

As pan-India blockbusters and period films boomed, so did the demand for Sheetal Sharma. ‘Actors have to look like the characters they are playing, not just pretty and handsome.’

Vyjayanthimala to Rekha to ‘Kasturba’: Bhanu Athaiya marked before-after in Indian costume design

At the Bikaner House exhibition in Delhi titled The Legacy of Bhanu Athaiya, the Oscar-winner costume designer's six decades of work put India's fashion history in perspective.

On Camera

Nick Jonas wearing a mangalsutra is validation for many Indians. He’s our favourite jiju

Nick Jonas is not trying to modernise the mangalsutra, but his gesture shows that choices can be equal. If commitment must be flaunted, it need not be gendered.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

Suspected brake failure leads to Tejas accident after landing, airframe likely to be written off

The IAF, so far, remains mum on this accident which has led to grounding of the fleet for safety checks.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.