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GQ India
PRESCRIPTION FOR DISASTER
The story of hydroxychloroquine is a strange and twisted tale pitting power against knowledge. Let’s not repeat it
10+ min |
December 2020
GQ India
GLOBAL POP ICON: MALUMA
From Medellín to the world, Maluma’s ascent to global pop superstardom has been stratospheric. His tracks are dance-floor anthems across the planet, with 55 million followers on Instagram who watch his every move. He’s as adventurous with his style as he is with his music, an evangelist for the power of cross-cultural expression and collaboration. With a clear eye on Asia in 2021, it’s just onwards and upwards for this “farm boy” from Colombia.
2 min |
December 2020
GQ India
CHIVAS PRESENTS ENTREPRENEUR OF THE YEAR: NIKHIL KAMATH
This Bengaluru native dropped out of school at 14 to play chess professionally. Three years later, he started trading stocks. By the age of 23, he’d launched Zerodha along with his elder brother Nithin Kamath: A future-forward platform that effectively hauled the Indian stock market into the 21st century. Zerodha has grown into a unicorn and is now one of India’s hottest companies, making him the country’s youngest billionaire at 34. With the asset management company True Beacon, his next disruption lies in the hedge funds space. Soft-spoken and introspective, Kamath represents the ambition and dexterity of an upwardly-mobile generation bullish about their prospects in an increasingly digital world.
2 min |
December 2020
GQ India
FLIP THE SCRIPT
How to turn 2020 on its head, and prep for a brand new year
4 min |
December 2020
GQ India
JEEP PRESENTS THE HUMANITARIAN AWARD: SONU SOOD
Back in the spring of 2020, as the pandemic paralysed human activity around the world, one man sprung into action. Sood supported everyone he could, from the very beginning of the lockdown: Helping thousands of migrant workers reach their homes, transporting stranded students from overseas and opening the doors of his Juhu hotel for medical personnel. The good work doesn’t stop: He is now in the process of building a platform to skill and connect informal workers with job opportunities. As they say, you don’t need a cape to be a superhero.
1 min |
December 2020
GQ India
FASHION ICON: SIR PAUL SMITH
Sir Paul Smith is a fashion industry legend, a menswear maestro who created his eponymous label and grew it into a multi-million dollar empire. Although, now venerated around the globe for his impeccable taste, Smith’s roots are humble: Born into a working-class family in a provincial English town; opening a small shop in Nottingham where he first began designing and getting noticed; and on to Paris where he first showed his menswear collection in 1976. Since then, the label has developed into a powerhouse fashion brand, with a cult following in Japan, and a global fan base that reveres his quirky twists on classic tailoring. Over the decades his signature multicoloured stripes have found fans among aesthetes everywhere – including Jack Nicholson, Harrison Ford and David Bowie. The Paul Smith brand celebrates its 50th anniversary this year: Half a century of pioneering style, independence and creativity. And to mark the occasion, Sir Paul is doing what all true legends do: Giving back, by working through his foundation to empower and enrich the creative class across the planet.
2 min |
December 2020
GQ India
DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR: HANSAL MEHTA
Mehta’s powerful storytelling has always brought to life the humour and humanity behind headline-making events and figures. With notable films like Shahid, Aligarh and Omertà, he has chronicled the shifting contours of Indian society. Long a favourite of the critics, he impressed audiences far and wide this year with the masterful Scam1992: The Harshad Mehta Story. He also forayed into the mainstream masala space like never before with Chhalaang. With 23 years in the industry behind him, he stands at the cusp of a new decade and phase in his career. Among India’s most acclaimed film-makers, this is Hansal Mehta 4.0.
2 min |
December 2020
GQ India
TALKING HEADS
2020’s voice assistant speakers aren’t just getting smarter by the day, they’re also ready to fill up your room with excellent sound as they optimise your day-to-day living – even if you don’t have a smart home to match just yet
3 min |
December 2020
GQ India
COAT TALES
Wonder how we select the season’s sexiest outerwear? Oh, the lengths we go to
1 min |
December 2020
GQ India
Inside Beirut's Broken Heart
After the catastrophic blast of August 4 – one of the largest recorded explosions in human history – Beirut was coming to terms with an unbearable trauma. In the days that followed, Nasri Atallah grappled with his country’s past, present and future
10+ min |
November 2020
GQ India
WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION
You’ve heard it before: Social media is addictive and manipulative and rewiring your brain every day. But the truth is, it is possible to break out of the tech cage, if you subtract the hyperbole and induce incremental changes. Going cold turkey never worked for anyone
4 min |
November 2020
GQ India
THE ARCHIVISTS OF ASSAGAO
Meet Chef Anumitra Ghosh Dastidar and Shalini Krishan, the duo behind the country’s most quietly revolutionary culinary landmark: Goa’s Edible Archives
10+ min |
November 2020
GQ India
LOVE, ACTUALLY
In its new season, The Crown tackles the saga of Prince Charles and Diana Spencer. Julie Miller catches up with actors Emma Corrin and Josh O’Connor about portraying one of the most famous (and ill-fated) couples of the 20th century
7 min |
November 2020
GQ India
THE REINVENTION OF ABHISHEK BACHCHAN
Since March, when cinemas shuttered and filming came to a halt, viewers’ attention shifted vigorously to streaming services. As entertainment became a precious commodity and most actors were relegated to posting fitness videos, only one performer appeared oddly busy. Arun Janardhan caught up with Abhishek Bachchan, days before the release of Anurag Basu’s Ludo on Netflix, as he stands on the cusp of rebooting his career
8 min |
November 2020
GQ India
THE RIGHT ACCORD
Nothing quite defines a man like a signature scent. Whether it’s fresh, fougère, oriental or gourmand, the right perfume can underline your personality effortlessly. Just choose your fragrance family, and leave the rest to us
4 min |
November 2020
GQ India
JUST MALUMA
With a superhit album in 2020, Papi Juancho, the Latin pop star from Medellín caps a decade of massive highs, collaborations and making music that moves the world. But Maluma, also known for his eclectic taste in fashion, is just getting started on the next phase of this ascent, a journey of exploring languages and cultures – beginning with a plan to conquer Asia in 2021
7 min |
November 2020
GQ India
High Stakes
Fintech wizkid and the founder of Zerodha, Nithin Kamath, has parlayed a personal passion for trading into building the country’s leading broking firm in the span of a decade. And now he’s overseeing a period of explosive growth for the company in the midst of a pandemic, thanks to a new generation of first-time investors. Arun Janardhan gets the low-down
6 min |
November 2020
GQ India
Big UP
Why you need to bulk up before you can shred
4 min |
November 2020
GQ India
NO Reservations
In Ravi Patel’s jocular, ever-expanding universe, any resemblance to actual persons or events is purely intentional. It is also a means to find answers to the big questions, discover parts unknown and build community. The American actor-creator of Indian origin weighs in on his extraordinary journey so far – from an investment banker to a stint in Wonder Woman 1984 – and his future capers on the road to world domination
8 min |
November 2020
GQ India
chaos THEORY
Fareed Zakaria is one of the world’s leading public intellectuals and the host of Fareed Zakaria GPS on CNN. In his new book, Ten Lessons For A Post-Pandemic World, he draws on his extensive experience as a journalist, media personality and academic to invent a set of principles that are likely to be crucial for success in the turbulent years ahead
6 min |
November 2020
GQ India
Covid-19 Has Not Killed Off The Office
The truth is, it died years ago
4 min |
October 2020
GQ India
GQ'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2020 SO FAR
In a wild year that’s sure to get wilder, these are the books that have stood out
5 min |
October 2020
GQ India
Nuclear Fusion
Acquaint yourself with the world-melding sounds of Yanchan, the Canadian hip-hop artist of Sri Lankan descent, who is drawing new energy from an ancient instrument
4 min |
October 2020
GQ India
SUBLIME
When he became the first person of Arab descent to win the Academy Award for Best Actor, Rami Malek had climbed the mountain. Now, with a starring role in an iconic franchise, he s̓standing on one summit and staring at a whole new peak
10+ min |
October 2020
GQ India
FLYING SOLO
For three decades, Aasif Mandvi, the British-American actor-creator of Indian origin, has worked hard to mainstream the immigrant experience in Hollywood and theatre. He’s played the skeptic, the cynic, the empiricist, the debunker, the myth-buster. Now, as he learns his way around fatherhood, and returns to an ever-more woke workplace, Mandvi takes stock of the world as it was, is and as he’d like for it to be
10+ min |
October 2020
GQ India
STRAIGHT SHOOTER
The world is in flux. And investors are on the hunt. Some countries will rise, others will lag. Powerhouse investor and writer Ruchir Sharma has refined his formula for what lies around the corner
6 min |
October 2020
GQ India
Thinker Tailor
In an age of speedy obsolescence, what does it take to make a gadget live forever? Diwik Singh Chhalani, founder of the sustainable luxury speaker brand Diwiks, tells Nidhi Gupta about his vision for timeless technology
5 min |
October 2020
GQ India
THE Alchemist
From starring in Kenneth Branagh’s Death On The Nile this month, alongside a sublime cast, to bagging the lead role in the prestige project Codename: Johnny Walker, Ali Fazal is officially Hollywood’s favourite Indian actor. But the Lucknow-bred, Doon-educated artist remains deeply connected to his roots, with the hotly anticipated second season of Mirzapur - in which he plays the lead - ticking ominously around the corner
10 min |
October 2020
GQ India
Mumbai Central
Scenes of the pandemic from India’s epicentre through the eyes of photographer Colston Julian
2 min |
October 2020
GQ India
CRYSTAL CLEAR
With macOS Big Sur, Apple gives its desktop UI its biggest facelift in 20 years. Alan Dye, VP of Human Interface, takes GQ through a redesign that marries minimalist design with utility
5 min |