Mint Lounge

A glimpse of the Mint Lounge issue out tomorrow!

It's not all gloom and doom, but depends on your commitment to fitness and the length of the break, writes @pulastadhar livemint.com/mint-lounge/we…

The collection reimagines bridal dressing for a generation that embraces traditional design through a contemporary lens livemint.com/mint-lounge/st…

This series starring Kay Kay Menon brings specificity and humour to the workings of a struggling government school, writes @UditaJ livemint.com/mint-lounge/ar…

Elio Petri’s 1971 film, starring a volcanic Gian Maria Volonté, charts the unpredictable power and messiness of protest, writes @yooday livemint.com/mint-lounge/ar…

Ordinary plants like the ‘Sada Bahar’ tell time with their own mechanisms. Their resilience can help us understand our connection to life and environment, writes @nehaa_sinha livemint.com/mint-lounge/id…

Noise is attempting to disrupt the market for wireless audio with the release of ALT Buds Open and the ALT Clip. Are they a good and economical way for wireless audio on the go, asks @baxiabhishek livemint.com/mint-lounge/bu…

Young rappers have written and recorded passionate, eloquent songs of protest in the past month, fuelling Gen Z's demand for accountability and good governance, writes @abhilasha livemint.com/mint-lounge/id…

From Pete Hegseth's testosterone campaign to football fandoms, here is a case for embracing male beauty beyond toxic ideas of masculinity. Nisha Susan writes in her column livemint.com/mint-lounge/id…

An Open AI agent goes rogue and hacks a company, while Amazon announces fresh AI layoffs and the carbon emissions of tech companies soar due to datacentres livemint.com/mint-lounge/bu…

For hilsa, a fish that swims upstream from the sea to lay its eggs during the monsoon, any change in climate patterns affects its behaviour, size, spawning, and once it’s on the plate, its taste. @shalinimb writes in the issue note livemint.com/mint-lounge/id…

Many travellers are now dealing hodophobia, an extreme and irrational fear of travelling, turning once-exciting trips into overwhelming episodes of anxiety, writes @abhilasha livemint.com/mint-lounge/id…

Doctors suggest a way forward for eating disorders, a category of mental health issues that don’t get the attention it deserves livemint.com/mint-lounge/we…

The ongoing student protests at Delhi's Jantar Mantar have created an informal network of citizens from across the country, including chefs, working together to provide snacks and home-style meals, writes @TheRDPLife livemint.com/mint-lounge/fo…

While ‘ilish’ from Myanmar and the Gujarat coast take over local markets, scientists point to stricter regulations to safeguard future of the fish that arrives each year with the monsoon. @rituparna81 and @zico_gh0sh have more on this livemint.com/mint-lounge/fo…

In ‘Once Elephants Lived Here’, translated by Daisy Rockwell, International Booker Prize-winning Hindi writer Geetanjali Shree dazzles the reader with her allegorical and intriguing stories, writes @aditya_mani_jha livemint.com/mint-lounge/ge…

The question to ask isn’t who thought of it first, but who transformed an idea into something distinctly their own, writes @pooja_sngh livemint.com/mint-lounge/st…

The Coen Brothers' ‘O Brother, Where Art Thou?’ is ridiculous in the best ways. It digresses and delights with its storytelling detours, just as Homer did, writes @RajaSen livemint.com/mint-lounge/ar…

‘Jana Nayagan’ was supposed to be a celebration of Vijay's cinematic career as well as lay out his party’s ideological framework, but achieves neither. @gradwolf has more on this livemint.com/mint-lounge/ar…

Vijay’s 'Jana Nayagan’ finally reaches theatres, a feline-friendly family drama, and other titles to watch livemint.com/mint-lounge/ar…

There have been many instances of Indians being phone-weilding bystanders and not intervening when people are being assaulted. What should they do instead? @SravastiD speaks with legal experts to find out livemint.com/mint-lounge/bu…