Avantika Chokoti is an international correspondent for The Economist. She says cool is not moving to one place now, it's actually dispersing. A century ago you could think of Europe as the capital of cool, she says. Now young people follow influencers with no regard to where they are based.
An attack on the Kerch bridge—a pet project of President Vladimir Putin that links Russia with annexed Crimea—has prompted a swift and brutal response. We ask what is likely to happen next. We examine the multipolar nature of popular culture: fears of a globalised monoculture of cool have proved misplaced. And why buying booze in Delhi has again become so unpleasant.
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