Issue 01 · Women Who Build · Winter 2026
Tonight,
the list is short.
A quarterly magazine about women who built something. Be featured in it: a profile, the cover, or a whole edition of your own.
On the list
9 women in Issue 01, arriving in the order they appear. Each has a story waiting inside.
Noor Haider
Zoya Kapadia
Aisha Rahman
Lata Deshmukh
The cover · Issue 01
She built a house that outlived its trend.
Meera Rathore turned her grandmother's block-printing table into a textile house now sold in four countries. Six pages, photographed in her own rooms.
Read the cover story
The feature · 4 pages
Noor Haider and the palace she gave back its music
When she took over a shuttered haveli on the edge of Lake Pichola, the first thing she restored was not a room but a gramophone.
“A house remembers what it was built for. I only listened.”Read her story
Inside Issue 01
Turn every page
p. 16 · CouturierInside Zoya Kapadia's atelier, where nothing is hurried
p. 20 · JewellerAisha Rahman designs jewellery for the woman who buys her own
p. 22 · Art collectorLata Deshmukh began collecting at sixty. Her walls disagree with her age
p. 24 · ArchitectTara Venkat builds quiet houses for loud citiesp. 26 · Founder, skincareRitika Sahni and the skincare brand she started in her kitchenp. 28 · RestaurateurKavya Iyer cooks her grandmother's food for strangers, and they queue for it
From the cover story
“My grandmother printed for others. I decided we would print for ourselves.”
Meera Rathore · Issue 01, page 6
Solo editions
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Twelve to sixteen pages on one life and its work. Bound, numbered and sent to the people you choose. Commissioned privately.
See a sample · No. 01Ishani Rao: The Films Nobody FundedTurn all 16 pages and watch the reel →Or read her profile page. Ishani Rao is an invented sample.
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Every page in Prive Pages is made with the person it is about. Here is what you receive. See a finished example (an invented sample).
- 01A conversation with our editorOne unhurried, recorded conversation. Everything printed comes from it, in your own words.
- 02A professional photo shootDirected by our art desk and styled for the pages it will fill.
- 03Pages you approveYou read and approve every word and picture before anything is printed.
- 04Numbered print copiesPrinted in small numbers, with copies for you to give to the people who matter.
- 05Your own page on privepages.comYour story, portraits and work on a page of your own to share with anyone.
- 06A press kitAn 'As featured in' badge, a certificate, a press note and ready-made posts for your social accounts.
Founding prices · Issue 02
- A profilefrom ₹60,000 · $900
- The coverfrom ₹3,00,000 · $4,500
- A solo editionfrom ₹3,50,000 · $5,000
Founding pages from ₹60,000 · $900. Prices rise after Issue 02. Be featured
How a story is made
An hour with our editor, recorded and unhurried. Everything printed comes from it.
Your story in your own voice, read and approved by you before it is set.
Photography directed by our art desk, styled for the pages it will fill.
Published in print and online, with a page of your own to share with whoever you choose.
Patrons of the evening
Advertise beside them. The houses that host each issue: jewellers, couturiers, hotels and salons, placed beside the women their clients admire.
The after-party · journal
All stories
Issue 02 · founding pages
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in Issue 02
For a page in the next issue, the cover, or a solo edition of your own. Tell us what you have built; our editor replies to every request personally within the week.