

Friday 29 August '08
Why are we all in such a lather about Raj Thackeray? I mean, for a country well used to tearing its flimsy social fabric apart...Tuesday 19 August '08
Most of us take for granted that our sex lives are strictly private. So imagine, just for a moment, what it means to fight...Thursday
27 March '08He took on Big Bad Coke. Then he rapped King Khan on the knuckles for smoking on screen. Now, I wish Dr Anbumani...Saturday
15 March '08Bombay is quite used to being bought and sold.In 1661, when Infanta Catherine De Braganza of Portugal...Friday
29 February '08When forty million people across the world rely on a pill to make them “happy”, it’s obviously time to redefine that pithy little word.Tuesday
12 February '08Our housemaid Renu is what Raj Thackeray would call an ‘outsider’.Monday
28 January '08Our watchman Munna reports to work at 5 am sharp, two hours before duty.Wednesday
9 January '08There is only one way to sum up the media assault that followed the molestation...Friday
4 January '08Well, well, well. So the Chai-Paani cadres have successfully subdued the Single Malt Set.Sunday
9 December '07Raghu Rai captures the scatological and the sacred of this wide-angled landFriday
30 November '07Damn! Does the United Nations have to be such a spoilsport? I mean, just when we thought the India Story was becoming an international bestseller...Friday
26 October '07Instead of submitting meekly to this sound and fury, we need to ensure festivals signify the sublime.Thursday
18 October '07Not long ago, a gentleman turned up at our door with a large box. “Madam,” he said gravely, “according to our records...Sunday
14 October '07Photographer Prashant Panjiar’s is a cosmic canvas, where degradation and dignity, despair and hope, pain and joy are so intimately fused that it becomes impossible to see them in shades of contrastThursday
6 September '07I may be wrong but yoga is traditionally never taught to toddlers. Or dogs. Or cats. Neither is it performed for ‘tighter bums and tums’Friday
31 August '07I am relieved that you seem to have done your math on the political abacus, and figured out that 123 is indeed 123, not a wolf in sheep’s clothing.Wednesday
15 August '07Once the party is over, birthdays have a knack of throwing up disquieting existential questions. Laugh or ignore them at your perilTuesday
31 July '07It’s justice delayed for blast victims; but 15 years later, justice continues to remain elusive for riot victimsSaturday
21 July '07When a young woman strips to her underwear and parades semi-nude down a conservative small-town street, it’s hard to focus on anything but the obvious.Tuesday
10 July '07Thought for the first anniversary of 7/11: Surely terrorism took its cue from the casual savagery on Mumbai’s trainsWednesday
4 July '07What Mumbai needs more than infrastructure is intolerance of chaosWednesday
16 May '07The kiss was harmless. However I don’t see the point of kissing at an AIDS function. After all, Shilpa is not an AIDS victim, is she?”...Thursday
3 May '07One man must pay for our collective sins of commission and omission. Meanwhile, life for Mumbai’s pavement dwellers is unchangedFriday
20 April '07A Mumbai psychiatrist recently claimed that the average Indian thinks about the Bachchans at least once every day.Thursday
5 April '07