Living

Wedding Knells

Aastha Atray Banan

How and why marriage bureaus survive in the age of online matrimony

What’s Love Got to Do with It?

Aastha Atray Banan

This generation has all but given up the right to have a love marriage

Maharaja for a day (and two nights)

Shruti Ravindran

At the modest price of Rs 5,50,000 a night

Feel Like a Million Dollars

Elizabeth Kuruvilla

The spa treatment costs are small change if you won’t blink at paying Rs 1,25,000/night for the Presidential Suite here

Before you can say Harley-Davidson

Sopan Joshi

Prozac at Rs 12 lakh a pop

Banker’s Ghost

Rishad Saam Mehta

Any Rolls-Royce is a feast for the senses. But this model, with a base price of Rs 3.5 crore, is an experience in a class of its own

Out for a Duck

Aastha Atray Banan

At Rs 8,500, the Peking Duck is the most expensive dish on the menu of Hakkasan, a restaurant that has many of Mumbai’s swish set as patrons. But let’s just say it’s an acquired taste

In Search of the Rs 5,000 Paan

Haima Deshpande

The quaint shop in Aurangabad that sells a highly expensive paan formulated for an extraordinary purpose

The Rs 90,000 Diet That Crashed

Haima Deshpande

It was meant to knock off 20 kilos in 20 weeks, but if the fiscal setback was a shock, so was the physical cost—gnawing hunger, mortifying hairfall and dry skin