Live It Up

If you feel out of sync with the popular local lifestyle, these global cultural tenets are validations that your mood is still trendy and very much on the map.

- Manidipa Mandal

“Outside my window is a day of Gluggaveður, what they call ‘window weather’ in Iceland. Inside is warm hygge, in a wabi-sabi room in twilight water colours on a now-late afternoon, as my colleagues stretch and reach for fika. Today’s feestvarken (party pig) is our resident photographer...”

Because it’s 2017, this could be a perfectly believable blogpost written by someone sitting in India. At a time when lifestyles have no borders and the world is one very connected family, social media has expanded the reach of the written word beyond mono linguistic bastions. Cultural borrowing with due credit is the passport of the trendy who are aiming to live ‘glocally’ in ways that mimic those of people in far-flung countries. Here are the five trending lifestyles that you definitely need to know about.

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