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Why does bigotry surprise the BJP?

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...
Law and other demons

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...
Make war, not peace

Thursday 27 March '08

He took on Big Bad Coke. Then he rapped King Khan on the knuckles for smoking on screen. Now, I wish Dr Anbumani...
Whose Mumbai?

Saturday 15 March '08

Bombay is quite used to being bought and sold.In 1661, when Infanta Catherine De Braganza of Portugal...
Well-being in a bottle

Friday 29 February '08

When forty million people across the world rely on a pill to make them “happy”, it’s obviously time to redefine that pithy little word.
Who owns the Mumbai dream?

Tuesday 12 February '08

Our housemaid Renu is what Raj Thackeray would call an ‘outsider’.
Playing Robin Hood in Mumbai

Monday 28 January '08

Our watchman Munna reports to work at 5 am sharp, two hours before duty.
Latur’s a long way from Mumbai

Wednesday 9 January '08

There is only one way to sum up the media assault that followed the molestation...
Puritanism on our breath

Friday 4 January '08

Well, well, well. So the Chai-Paani cadres have successfully subdued the Single Malt Set.
Between Black and White

Sunday 9 December '07

Raghu Rai captures the scatological and the sacred of this wide-angled land
Such a spoilsport

Friday 30 November '07

Damn! Does the United Nations have to be such a spoilsport? I mean, just when we thought the India Story was becoming an international bestseller...
Surround festive sound

Friday 26 October '07

Instead of submitting meekly to this sound and fury, we need to ensure festivals signify the sublime.
Pulse of the polio programme

Thursday 18 October '07

Not long ago, a gentleman turned up at our door with a large box. “Madam,” he said gravely, “according to our records...
Mirrored in a Sharp Lens

Sunday 14 October '07

Photographer 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 contrast
Yum Yum Yoga?

Thursday 6 September '07

I may be wrong but yoga is traditionally never taught to toddlers. Or dogs. Or cats. Neither is it performed for ‘tighter bums and tums’
Mr Advani, Sir...

Friday 31 August '07

I 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.
People of the midnight hour

Wednesday 15 August '07

Once the party is over, birthdays have a knack of throwing up disquieting existential questions. Laugh or ignore them at your peril
1993: two Bombay stories

Tuesday 31 July '07

It’s justice delayed for blast victims; but 15 years later, justice continues to remain elusive for riot victims
Everything but Pooja

Saturday 21 July '07

When 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.
Dead on Arrival

Tuesday 10 July '07

Thought for the first anniversary of 7/11: Surely terrorism took its cue from the casual savagery on Mumbai’s trains
Look before you shanghai

Wednesday 4 July '07

What Mumbai needs more than infrastructure is intolerance of chaos
Meandering along the liberal line

Wednesday 16 May '07

The 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?”...
Desperately searching for a scapegoat

Thursday 3 May '07

One man must pay for our collective sins of commission and omission. Meanwhile, life for Mumbai’s pavement dwellers is unchanged
A perfect hysteria

Friday 20 April '07

A Mumbai psychiatrist recently claimed that the average Indian thinks about the Bachchans at least once every day.
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