Shalini Umachandran

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Posted On: 2025-06-14 Posted By: Shalini Umachandran Health & Lifestyle Travel Technology MINT New Delhi, June 14 -- Bored of reading about sewing, pianoforte sessions and perambulation, a friend and I tried rewriting Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Emma to fit into our high school-setting in Chennai about three decades ago.

2 weeks ago | livemint.com | Shalini Umachandran

Bored of reading about sewing, pianoforte sessions and perambulation, a friend and I tried rewriting Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and Emma to fit into our high school-setting in Chennai about three decades ago. ‘Fan fiction’ wasn’t a term we knew, Clueless was a hit but hadn’t yet reached our corner of the world, and so, in our ignorance, we felt quite bold, creative and original. We weren’t really fans, but the Bennet sisters held promise, we decreed.

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Posted On: 2025-06-07 Posted By: Shalini Umachandran Business & Finance Health & Lifestyle Travel Technology MINT New Delhi, June 7 -- It was at an airport a year ago, while chatting with a young UI/UX engineer who was on the same delayed flight, that I learnt about fashion cycles shrinking to two weeks.

3 weeks ago | livemint.com | Shalini Umachandran

It was at an airport a year ago, while chatting with a young UI/UX engineer who was on the same delayed flight, that I learnt about fashion cycles shrinking to two weeks. She worked for a fashion brand that changed its collection every two weeks since Gen Z followed social media trends and switched out their wardrobes about once a month. I was surprised because this is a generation that has brought ‘eco-anxiety’ and ‘climate grief’ into everyday vocabulary.

3 weeks ago | livemint.com | Shalini Umachandran

Opinion Summary Our annual rains were once heroic—a relief for millions, an inspiration for poetry and a wellspring of growth for the economy. It’s still central to the plot, but as a villain—exposing our negligence of nature, laxity in urban planning and worse. This is a Mint Premium article gifted to you. Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. It had been a week of bad news—of water filling homes, streets, even a presciently named Aqua Line metro station.