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CarLelo, A Capri Loan Venture takes the festive spirit to heights with 150 new cars sold on Dhanteras

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3 years ago

November 30, 2023

As the festive season kicked off, CarLelo (A Capri Loan Venture), the online new car-buying platform, experienced a surge in sales of 150 new cars during the auspicious occasion of Dhanteras.

In line with this, CarLelo also witnessed a 60 % increase in digital inquiries during the festive season. This indicates a growing inclination toward the ease and convenience of digital interactions throughout the new car buying process. Millennials have played a substantial role in online booking, constituting 70% of the total buyers from the northern region. CarLelo’s platform is popular with young people as it offers a convenient and seamless way to buy a new car online.

Gaurav Aggarwal, Founder and CEO of CarLelo, A Capri Loan Venture commented “We have seen an increase of 4X in sales during the last two months. We are thrilled to see the growing number of young professionals embracing the ease and efficiency of online new car buying. We are committed to adapting to the changing landscape and offering a seamless and accessible platform for all customers. We look forward to the exciting future, where we will continue to innovate, expand, and provide quality cars and service to meet the evolving needs of today’s generation.

Regarding trends in new cars, CarLelo saw the highest demand in the Delhi NCR region, followed by cities like Meerut, Lucknow, Kanpur, and Ambala. The company has also seen a consistent demand for brands like Maruti Suzuki, Hyundai, Tata Motors, Mahindra, Kia, MG Motors and Toyota. Among new car buyers, black, blue, and white are the top color choices. Simultaneously, there was a remarkable 50% increase in the demand for SUVs, signifying a preference for spacious and versatile vehicles.

When it comes to fuel choices in the city, 33% of buyers opted for petrol cars, 11% favored diesel , 45% CNG and 11% electric, illustrating a diverse range of preferences and needs met by CarLelo’s selection. These statistics highlight CarLelo’s ability to cater to a wide array of consumer tastes and preferences, contributing to the company’s success this festive season.

About CarLelo:

CarLelo (A Capri Loan Venture) is an online platform that is revolutionizing the new car buying experience through its seamless and hassle-free methods. It is India’s first multi-brand virtual car showroom, where you get the best new car deals. The brand strongly believes that buying a new car is a unique escapade that does not happen every day and its vision is to provide an overall bespoke experience to customers, all from the comfort of their home. One can visit the website, select the desired brand and choose a model based on variant, colour, features and mileage. While doing this from a large curated catalogue of brands and models, the customer is directly connected to a relevant dealer based on his location without physically having to visit a dealership. Further, they can avail the best offers and deals on their new car by connecting with multiple dealers. For the ones looking to finance their dream car, the company offers the best low-interest rate and minimum paperwork for their customers. The company today has grown to become a leading online marketplace for buying new cars.

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Beyond Silence: A Smarter Way to Meditate

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2 weeks ago

June 6, 2026

Anushka Thapliyal

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THE SCIENCE OF NEUROFEEDBACK AND HOW BRAIN-SENSING HEADBANDS ARE REDEFINING CALM

Close your eyes and imagine rain — not the kind tied to traffic and wet shoes, but the slow, steady kind that arrives when everything is quiet. Now imagine that rain responding to you, growing louder when your mind drifts and softening when you settle. That’s the experience brain-sensing headbands are designed to create. The headband rests lightly across your forehead, where small EEG sensors read your brain’s electrical activity in real time. Fast beta waves reflect a busy mind, while slower alpha and theta waves are linked to relaxation and meditation. Devices like Muse, Emotiv, and NeuroSky don’t read your thoughts — they simply follow your brain’s rhythm. “When the rain grows heavier, you know your mind has wandered. When it softens, you’ve returned.”

Person wearing a brain-sensing neurofeedback headband while meditating in a calm indoor setting.

This is neurofeedback — giving the brain a mirror so it can learn to regulate itself. Most people think they’re calm during meditation, but their brain activity often says otherwise. These headbands close that gap using sound, often in the form of weather.

READING THE RHYTHM OF THE BRAIN

Weather sounds are chosen carefully. Rain, wind, and waves don’t repeat in predictable patterns, which makes them hard for the analytical mind to track. With nothing to control, the mind gradually let go.

There’s also a deeper reason. These are sounds humans have lived with long before cities existed. Neuroscientists suggest water-based sounds carry no threat signal, allowing the body to relax — breathing slows, muscles soften, and tension releases.

That said, sound isn’t universal. For some, rain is comforting; for others, it may carry difficult memories. That’s why apps paired with headbands allow users to personalise their soundscapes.

When neurofeedback is layered onto these sounds, the experience becomes interactive. In systems like Muse, available in India through platforms like Amazon, the audio shifts instantly based on your brain activity. The result feels simple, but for someone struggling to meditate, it can be transformative.

WHY IT WORKS SO FAST

What surprises most people is how quickly it works. Instead of guessing what calm feels like, the brain gets immediate feedback. When the sound softens, it signals success. Over time, the brain learns that pattern and begins to recreate it on its own.

“The brain doesn’t need years to learn calm. It needs clear, honest feedback.”

Sound plays a powerful role here. It doesn’t just reach the ears — it activates memory, emotion, and the body’s stress system at once. Repeated over time, certain sounds can become triggers for calm.

THE SCIENCE IS NUANCED

These devices aren’t perfect. Brainwaves don’t map neatly to emotions, and most headbands only read activity from the forehead. Still, research shows increases in alpha and theta waves during meditation, making the feedback useful, even if incomplete.

A TOOL, NOT A SHORTCUT

It’s easy to see these headbands as a crutch. But for people who struggle with meditation, they offer something simple and powerful: proof that calm is possible. And once you’ve felt it, returning becomes easier — with or without the rain.

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The AI tools serious creators are quietly building empires with — and nobody is talking about

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3 weeks ago

June 2, 2026

Anushka Thapliyal

The New Creative Intelligence · Tools Issue · 2026

There is a version of the future that has already arrived — it just hasn’t been distributed equally. While the internet argues over the same five tools, a quieter revolution is unfolding inside the workflows of the creators who are actually winning: the podcaster who batches a month of episodes in an afternoon, the fashion filmmaker who renders twenty b-roll cuts before breakfast, the solo creator who looks like she has a full post-production team. They are not working harder. They are working with the right instruments.

“The tools that stay in your stack are never the ones that promise everything. They are the ones that solve the one thing you cannot stop losing time to.”

What follows is not a ranking. It is a wardrobe. Each piece chosen for a specific occasion, a specific problem — and each one worthy of a permanent spot in how you create.

01 · ElevenLabs Voice Design
Voice & Audio

“Your voice, available at every hour you are not.”

best AI tools for content creators in 2026

Think of it as the understudy who has studied you so closely she can walk on stage without a rehearsal. ElevenLabs Voice Design does not produce the flat, robotic narration we have been trained to scroll past — it produces something uncanny in the best possible sense. The emotional range is generous enough that audiences, real ones, do not notice the seam.

Clone your own voice for batch content. Build entirely fictional ones for characters, brands, or projects that demand something no human voice currently offers. Podcasters, course creators, and long-form YouTubers use it to decouple production volume from recording sessions entirely. The free tier is a real introduction; the paid tiers are where serious work lives.

02 · Kling AI
Video Generation

“The quiet contender who didn’t need the waitlist.”

While the industry held its breath for tools still locked behind invitation lists, Kling AI was being used. The difference that matters: motion coherence. Characters remain themselves across frames. Objects hold their shape. The physics feel, if not real, then at least convincing — which is exactly what b-roll and product visualisation demand.

Fashion, food, and lifestyle creators have adopted it almost as a category unto themselves. The faceless-channel ecosystem runs on it. The question was never whether AI video would arrive — it was which tool would be stable enough to build a production rhythm around. This is that tool.

03 · Higgsfield
Social Video

“It speaks the language of the scroll.”

Most video AI thinks in widescreen. Higgsfield thinks vertically. It was built with Reels, TikToks, and Shorts as the native format — not an afterthought. It understands pacing the way a seasoned editor understands an audience’s attention span: precariously, and with great respect.

Upload a concept; receive a draft that does not look like it was generated by something that has never seen a social feed. The creator community has not fully caught on yet, which means there is still a first-mover advantage to be had. That window, as with all windows in this space, will not stay open long.

04 · Captions App
Mobile Editing

“The invisible production team in your pocket.”

There is a quiet indignity in watching yourself speak on camera — the slight downward drift of the eyes toward the script, the filler words that seemed inaudible in the room. This framing made your kitchen look like a hostage situation. Captions remove all of it.

Eye contact correction moves your pupils to face the camera. Filler words vanish. Auto-reframing and b-roll suggestions round out what is, genuinely, an entire post-production workflow living inside a mobile app. For the solo creator who wants to look like she has a team — this is the cheat code.

05 · Wisper + Notion AI
Ideation Workflow

“From the voice memo that goes nowhere to the piece that publishes itself.”

Every creator has a graveyard of voice memos — the ideas caught while driving, the observations recorded between meetings, the three-minute ramble that contained, somewhere inside it, a genuinely good essay. Wisper transcribes them with fidelity across accents and rapid speech. Notion AI structures the result into scripts, outlines, newsletters, whatever shape the idea needs.

The gap between raw thought and publishable content is not a talent gap. It is a friction gap. This combination collapses it from hours of staring at a blank document to under fifteen minutes of light editing. That is not productivity optimisation. It is the return of creative momentum.

06 · Pika Labs
Video Effects

“Not a replacement. An enhancement. The distinction matters enormously.”

The fantasy of AI video is the blank-page generator. The reality of a working creator’s life is the footage that already exists — and needs something added, changed, elevated. Pika Labs understood this before the competition did. It specialises in modification: add effects to existing footage, change the weather in a scene, swap a background, and animate a still image.

It slots into an editing workflow rather than demanding you abandon one. That is the reason working creators choose it over all-or-nothing tools. Integration, not replacement, is the intelligence at play here.

The pattern that runs through every tool on this list is the same: specificity. Not the sweeping promise of doing everything, but the quiet confidence of doing one thing so well that you cannot imagine working without it. Fashion has always understood this. The dress that works for every occasion works for none of them. The tools that stay — the ones that survive a year in your workflow and still feel essential — are the ones that solved the right problem, elegantly, and got out of the way. That is not a feature. That is a philosophy.

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Where Cinema Meets Innovation

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5 months ago

January 23, 2026

Neha Tyagi

The Motorola Signature Film Festival marked the re-premiere of original short films crafted by emerging directors(Mr. Ruben Castano, VP- Design, Brand & CX Motorola, aspiring film directors Shikha Jain & Riya Kulkarni, Filmmaker Imtiaz Ali, aspiring film directors, Peekansh S Gosain & Amar Vaswani and Shivam Ranjan, Head of Marketing – APAC Motorola ), each shot entirely on the Motorola Signature smartphone. The showcase highlighted the device’s gold-standard cinematic camera capabilities, demonstrating how cutting-edge mobile technology is redefining visual storytelling. Through powerful narratives and striking visuals, the films underscored Motorola’s commitment to empowering the next generation of filmmakers by placing professional-grade filmmaking tools directly in their hands.