“Exactly,” she said. “We’ve become a catalog. Women are burning their bras, running companies, surviving violence, and we’re telling them which lipstick hides fatigue? No more.”

Rai stared at the cover: a famous actress draped in a six-yard wonder, her face airbrushed into oblivion. The headline screamed: “10 Festive Looks to Dazzle Your Sasural!”

“We’re replacing it,” she said, her voice steady, “with an issue that has zero fashion. Zero beauty. Zero style.”

She closed the proof.