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Medha Chawla

Medha Chawla

Medha Chawla is a senior-sub editor with India Today Digital. She has over 6 years of experience in writing about fashion, lifestyle, entertainment, travel, food and weddings. She is a quintessential (not really) Delhi girl who loves her Sarojini sprees, is obviously a foodie and can never say no to adrak wali chaai. She lives, breathes and also survives on Instagram.
 

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Style

How EU Chief got Indian fashion right, unlike many others

From honouring the weavers of Varanasi in a brocade bandhgala jacket to twinning with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a Northeastern eri silk stole, Ursula von der Leyen made a strong case for fashion diplomacy without going overboard.

EU Chief Ursula von der Leyen in India

Life

The screen bribe trap: What parents are stealing from their toddlers

Modern parenting, shaped by exhaustion and convenience, has normalised constant screen exposure at an age when the brain and body are still wiring themselves for life. In trying to make things easier, we may be trading short-term peace for long-term health costs we're only beginning to understand.

Screentime

Life

Why don't you have kids? This question needs to stop

In today's time, when being child-free is a common reality rather than an exception, questioning someone about why they don't have kids is intrusive, hypocritical, deeply triggering, and simply insensitive.

a woman at a family gathering

Trends

In 2026, these decor trends are best left behind

It's time we stop viewing home interiors through the narrow lens of mainstream, Insta-worthy aesthetics - those that impose beige minimalism, predictable metallic accents, or token pops of yellow and green - and instead create homes that tell our stories.

home decor trends

Style

Even Rama Duwaji thinks renting is cool

Rama Duwaji's inauguration-day wardrobe delivered a message that was easy to miss and hard to dismiss: fashion doesn't have to be owned to be powerful.

Zohran Mamdani and Rama Duwaji
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