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

Nine overlapping pigment swatches in all emotional colours on textured paper

All Colours of You

Every shade from the fortnight, together — not as a rainbow, but as a life.

Tara Kohli · 5 min · October 24, 2026

Black paint with a bright yellow crack of light and a yellow bindi on the surface

Defiance With a Smile

The boundary that opens doors — saying no to the wrong thing so you can say yes to the right one.

Tara Kohli · 5 min · October 23, 2026

Chapter II

Cover Girls

Curated with love

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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Green and pink watercolour bleeding together with a green bangle and pink bindi

Envy Softened Into Care

Tara Kohli · 5 min · October 22, 2026

Bold red paint stroke across white surface with a red bindi on white marble

Fierce and Still

Tara Kohli · 5 min · October 21, 2026

Blue and orange paint meeting on wet paper with a crumpled tissue and orange bangle

The Laugh After the Cry

Tara Kohli · 5 min · October 20, 2026

Deep violet ink spreading in water on a white plate with a purple scrunchie behind

The Intuition You Almost Ignored

Tara Kohli · 5 min · October 19, 2026

White pigment powder on a pale surface with a white scrunchie on cotton

The Reset Day

Tara Kohli · 5 min · October 18, 2026

Soft pink watercolour wash on wet paper with a pink bindi on linen

The Tenderness You Forgot You Had

Tara Kohli · 5 min · October 17, 2026

Black ink pooled on stone with a single black bindi on dark slate

The Boundary That Felt Like Self-Love

Tara Kohli · 5 min · October 16, 2026

Vibrant orange paint on textured canvas with orange jhumkas on a crumpled napkin

The Chaos Hour

Tara Kohli · 5 min · October 15, 2026

Moss-green pigment smeared on rough paper with green bangles catching side light

The One You Envied, and What It Taught You

Tara Kohli · 5 min · October 14, 2026

Warm yellow turmeric pigment on a pale surface in golden morning light

The Morning You Woke Up Curious

Tara Kohli · 5 min · October 13, 2026

Deep blue indigo fabric draped on a wooden surface in soft natural light

The Day After Being Brave

Tara Kohli · 5 min · October 12, 2026

A saturated red pigment composition with a single red bindi on a textured surface

The Contradiction Is the Beauty

Tara Kohli · 5 min · October 11, 2026

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

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

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

Meher Aujla · 1 min · March 5, 2026

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