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From finance to health: Here’s how you should conquer 2026

Making actual and conscious change in your life can be difficult, and we all know how hard New Year resolutions can be to stick to. So we spoke to eight hustlers who summited their personal challenges over the past year, and they tell us it’s not about being perfect. It’s about getting back up after you’ve fallen off the wagon. Take notes!

Shrishti Khanna with Prashant Pundir were one of the few who put out a call on social media asking people to go off quick commerce apps. PIC/SATEJ SHINDE

‘Today’s gig worker is exploited like yesterday’s mazdoor’

Were you among those who switched off all delivery apps on New Year’s Eve in solidarity with gig workers on strike? The first-of-its-kind consumer-led initiative got lukewarm response, but it’s a sign of growing anger over injustice

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The guiding principle for her performance is her now-viral statement: “Main bheek maangke nahi kamaungi, mein apni kala dikhaungi [I will not earn by begging, I will show my art]”

Ek, do, teen… it’s Mohini on a Mumbai's local train

Trans dancer Krishna Mohini performs in Mumbai locals’ ladies compartments dressed in Lucknowi kurtas and complete Bharatnatyam attire

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Bhumika Gurung believes that Instagram cannot show one’s acting talent

No followers online? Well, no job then!

That’s what professionals in almost every realm are getting used to hearing now. We may say expertise matters, but in the world of social media, it’s follower counts that make or break you

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