Issue 01 · Spring 2026 Curates with love · Finds with heart Bombay — Worldwide

Priya Menon — Bindee cover, Issue 01 · Spring 2026

The Cover Priya Menon · Bandra, Mumbai

Draped in Rebellion

For our first issue, we sit with the twenty-six-year-old textile revivalist rethinking what softness looks like on a modern Indian woman.

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In this issue

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Beauty

What a bindi means now

The Edit

Bangles, chosen well

Culture

Notes from the newsstand

Chapter I

The Issue

Curated with love

Priya Menon in a blue jamdani sari, photographed for Bindee Issue 01

Priya, in Blue

The textile revivalist on softness as strategy, the six-yard rebellion, and why she doesn't own a red lipstick.

Sanaya Irani · 8 min · March 14, 2026

A close-up of a young woman wearing a small red bindi

What a Bindi Actually Means (and How Girls Wear It Now)

A little dot with a long history — here's what it signals, where it comes from, and how to wear one today.

Tara Kohli · 1 min · March 9, 2026

A wrist stacked with coloured glass and metal bangles

How to Choose Bangles for Everyday, Festivals, and Weddings

Glass, metal, lac or thread — a practical guide to picking bangles you'll actually keep wearing.

Meher Aujla · 1 min · March 5, 2026

Chapter II

Cover Girls

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Priya Menon

Cover No. 01

Priya Menon

The quiet radical rewriting the sari script

Anaya Rao

Cover No. 02

Anaya Rao

Bridal wear, unlearned

Meher Aujla

Cover No. 03

Meher Aujla

On tailoring, tenderness, and the tyranny of the FYP

Chapter III

More from the issue

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A Bombay newsstand stacked with magazines

Notes From The Newsstand

Sanaya Irani · 4 min · February 28, 2026

Two women in festive dress adjusting a dupatta on a staircase

Sisters of the Staircase

Rhea Kohli · 6 min · February 22, 2026