Soft matter refers to a class of materials whose basic building blocks are at least of the order of
nanometers i.e. significantly larger than an atom and the appropriate energy scales are thermal. Soft materials
include a myriad of systems such as colloids, polymers, microemulsions, gels, foams, liquid crystals and a number of
biological materials. The word ‘soft’ highlights the low elastic moduli of these materials and they are deformed by
thermal or mechanical stresses comparable to the magnitude of the thermal fluctuations. Under confinement, soft
matter displays interesting properties, which are not observed, in their bulk counterpart and continues to be a
fertile ground for future research. The geometrical confinement is known to reduce the degrees of freedom and may as
well introduce new molecular interactions among its constituents. In context of this talk, the confinement refers to
soft materials at the solid surfaces, in the proximity of fluctuating membranes and inside nano-channels with hard
walls. Some remarkable confinement-induced effects such as electrostatic trapping of a colloidal monolayer, buckling
assisted layering transitions and the emergence of anisotropic pair correlations in colloids that are observed from
experiments will be discussed. In addition, anomalous water desorption phenomena, existence of multiple glass
transition temperatures in thin polymer films and the accelerated dynamics of polymers under soft confinement will
be presented.