Today’s Indian youth live in a glorious contradiction. They order pizza with extra cheese but won’t cut it with a knife because "pizza is better folded." They swipe on dating apps but ask for the kundali (birth chart) before marriage. They listen to K-pop but dance bhangra at weddings until 4 AM.

Perhaps the most significant shift in the last five years is the decoupling of influence from the English language.

If you are looking to consume or create "Indian culture and lifestyle content," please stop looking for the exotic.

The lifestyle revolves around Khana-Peena (eating-drinking). If you visit an Indian home and decline a snack, expect the host to look personally wounded. To refuse food is to refuse love. This has led to a modern crisis of "diet culture" clashing with "grandma’s force-feeding," but the latter usually wins.