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Remember Bombay

Thursday 30 October '08

The city needs to reach into its past for a wiser, more accommodative self
Street theatre

Saturday 11 October '08

The way the financial crisis has been covered in the American mainstream media says something for that country’s extreme...
Let them wear Hermes

Wednesday 10 September '08

The Vogue photoshoot treats poverty as wallpaper and makes manifest what we keep trying to forget.
Decoding reality

Saturday 23 August '08

In his novel 1984, George Orwell drew a terrifying picture of an approaching totalitarian era in which every individual would be spied upon...
A city divided

Thursday 31 July '08

It is not generally recalled that Ahmedabad is one of India’s oldest surviving cities.
Everybody needs a miracle

Tuesday 1 July '08

Given how freely the word is used it would appear that miracles are not as uncommon a phenomenon as one would...
Family matters

Thursday 12 June '08

Ram Gopal Varma’s reputation has been under threat for a while now.
What it takes to cheer up India

Monday 28 April '08

By hitting out at the IPL cheerleaders, Maharashtra’s MLAs seem to have sparked off yet another instalment in our long-running debate...
With great glamour, great responsibility?

Thursday 3 April '08

In an environment that encourages the promotion of self over community, Indian football captain Baichung Bhutia’s decision to opt out of the Olympic torch...
Images in a cracked mirror

Monday 24 March '08

What is Goa? If you read Maria Aurora Couto’s elegiac tribute, Goa: A Daughter’s Story, it is a land of red mud and green foliage.
Games nations play

Tuesday 26 February '08

The formation of the Indian Premier League has caused quite a stir.
Mumbaikar vs Mumbai

Tuesday 5 February '08

Raj Thackeray’s controversy may or may not blow over but, sadly, the outsider issue will again surface.
Like a kite in the sky

Wednesday 23 January '08

The giant kite is stretched across the façade of a low-storeyed building.
Don’t cry for Mumbai

Tuesday 8 January '08

The arrest of 14 people in the recent case involving the molestation of two women outside...
Happy 2008: Choose well

Tuesday 1 January '08

Giving could be the new taking. Get acquainted with e-clutter and mobulimia. And yes, blue might just be the new green.
Marking Questions

Sunday 30 December '07

Bernard Imhasly tries to gauge Gandhi’s legacy in the lay of the land and its conversations
Ways of seeing

Tuesday 18 December '07

It seems a fair assessment to make, that till about a decade ago, those of us living in the urban west in India were reasonably...
In the name of Taslima Nasreen

Thursday 29 November '07

The manner in which Taslima Nasreen has had to be shunted from city to city over the last few days is a matter of shame.
Diwali in the global city

Friday 9 November '07

Last week Mumbai played host to the Urban Age Conference, one of a worldwide series initiated by the Cities Programme...
Papa will preach

Thursday 25 October '07

How does Srija’s, Priyanka’s stories fit in with news of our modernity? Examine urban India’s cultural make up.
Sound-tracking India

Thursday 27 September '07

Twenty20 to Indian Idol: ‘Chak De India’ puts the public mood in touch with the spectacle
Camera’s begun to lie

Saturday 8 September '07

There is so much wrong with the recent saga involving Uma Khurana, the Sarvodaya Kanya Vidyalaya school...
Freedom of the imagination

Saturday 18 August '07

Sixty years on, it hasn’t quite been won. Just look at made-to-order works of art on display in sarkari concerts
Vassanji’s In-Between World

Sunday 12 August '07

In the Toronto-based writer’s new novel, a Sufi shrine in Gujarat becomes the site of post-2002 contestations
In the end, no closure

Wednesday 1 August '07

As Sanjay Dutt is sentenced, a question: has interest in his trial translated into an understanding of the grimmer aspects of the Mumbai blasts case? And, do we have empathy to spare for the riot victims who still wait for justice?
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