This November, GQ’s comprehensive and unmissable gifting guide is here to make your festive season simpler. And our style pages put the spotlight on wedding wear – the right tips and the right shoes to make you the best-looking guy in the room this season. Plus: With so many perfumes on the shelves these days, GQ presents a curated list to help you narrow down your options. Don’t miss our feature on trending probiotic-rich foods that you must read if you want to keep your gut health in check. Look out for our interviews with global journalist Fareed Zakaria, eight young and emerging artists that you need to know of, Latin pop sensation Maluma and Hollywood’s Ravi Patel. But, more importantly, don’t miss our chat with cover star Abhishek Bachchan, who’s returning from a sabbatical with a bang.

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BRAVE NEW WORLD • Not all art has to be political, but visual artists have always sought to reflect the environment they work in: To chronicle, respond and offer escape. Meet eight contemporary artists, under the age of 40, from the Indian subcontinent, who are skillfully wielding their paintbrushes and digital pens to reckon with everything: from climate change to social inequality, tradition and future technologies. Ones for the wall

GO WITH YOUR GUT • If immunity is armour, the gut is the helmet and shield combined – and probiotics are the iron and steel that make them. Here’s why (and how) you ought to factor these live cultures into the way you eat, for a gut that’s got your back

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Less The Street Travelled • How Delhi-based cloud kitchen Bhawan is redefining street food and its relationship with the city

Chaos Theory • Fareed Zakaria is one of the world’s leading public intellectuals and the host of Fareed Zakaria GPS on CNN. In his new book, Ten Lessons For A Post-Pandemic World, he draws on his extensive experience as a journalist, media personality and academic to invent a set of principles that are likely to be crucial for success in the turbulent years ahead

CENTRE STAGE • The idea is to visualise, create and maintain your dream space, and that’s what we have for you

The New Wave • FADD Studio goes back to the basic principle of reduce, reuse, recycle

Big Up • Why you need to bulk up before you can shred

Dynamic Evolution • Sit up and take notice as Stanley Lifestyles takes over the decor scene with its unmatched designs, new showrooms and an upcoming online store

NO Reservations • In Ravi Patel’s jocular, ever-expanding universe, any resemblance to actual persons or events is purely intentional. It is also a means to find answers to the big questions, discover parts unknown and build community. The American actor-creator of Indian origin weighs in on his extraordinary journey so far – from an investment banker to a stint in Wonder Woman 1984 – and his future capers on the road to world domination

WEAPONS OF MASS DISTRACTION • You’ve heard it before: Social media is addictive and manipulative and rewiring your brain every day. But the truth is, it is possible to break out of the tech cage, if you subtract the hyperbole and induce incremental changes. Going cold turkey never worked for anyone

String theory • Acquaint yourself with SURII, the solo music project of SGBG Atelier’s Surya Giri, who is bridging time and space in his rich, emotive compositions where the precision of Indian classical ragas meets the production capabilities of 21st-century technology

High stakes • Fintech wizkid and the founder of Zerodha, Nithin Kamath, has parlayed a personal passion for trading into building the country’s leading broking firm in the span of a decade. And now he’s overseeing a period of explosive growth for the company in the midst of a pandemic, thanks...