India Edition

India’s Big Glow-Up Is Driving a $40 Billion Beauty Boom

The world is on a beauty binge, and for India it’s just the beginning.
A customer applies a beauty product at a store in Mumbai.Photographer: Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg

Welcome to the Thursday issue of India Edition; I’m Menaka Doshi. Each week, I bring you a ringside view of the billionaires, businesses and policy decisions behind India’s rise as an emerging economic powerhouse. You can subscribe here, and share feedback with me here.

This week: India’s beauty binge, literal moonshots and a peace dividend for billionaires.