"With love you can achieve anything."

Cosmo Editor Pratishtha Dobhal in conversation with Triptii Dimri about growing up in the mountains, finding her voice, and leading with love.

- Pratishtha Dobhal

The morning sun in Mumbai hits different today. It does feel like the most ideal time to be here, thanks to the little nip in the air I may have carried with me from Delhi, along with the sketchy AQI. The Gateway of India standing tall and statuesque overlooking the Arabian sea is giving portal energy—the kind which harbours latent dreams of being crowne d superstar by millions that make their way here. Ten minutes of being lost in the sea of movement and port play, I am told my cover star has arrived. I turn around to see Triptii Dimri walking towards me, self-assured, pods on, ready to make my Monday less manic and quite marvelous.

Twenty minutes later, when we reach Alibag, Triptii stops by a local corner shop filling her tote with chips, chocolates, and Alpenliebe Gold caramel toffees she is delighted to see. Childlike, beautiful, playful, a quiet observer, she’s unaffected by people turning around to stop and stare while she radiates zillennial rizz—that particularly charming variety which is self-assured, living in the moment, yet mindful. Fortuitously, our shoot location is perched atop a hill, far from the madding crowd.