Weekly round-up of lifestyle and culture stories

The Brunch round-up for August 1 is published by Hindustan Times on Jul 30, 2026.

The article covers topics like mapping city cats, reading banned books, and killer fashion.

Women viewers are using The Odyssey's three-hour runtime for skincare in multiplexes.

The trolley problem has appeared in shows like The Good Place, The Last of Us, Widow's Bay, Stop! That! Train!, and The Odyssey.

In Hong Kong, indie booksellers are arrested for stocking books deemed seditious, and Emily Feng's Let Only Red Flowers Bloom has gone viral.