Farah Baria
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...
Most of us take for granted that our sex lives are strictly private. So imagine, just for a moment, what it means to fight...
He took on Big Bad Coke. Then he rapped King Khan on the knuckles for smoking on screen. Now, I wish Dr Anbumani...
Bombay is quite used to being bought and sold.In 1661, when Infanta Catherine De Braganza of Portugal...
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.
Our housemaid Renu is what Raj Thackeray would call an ‘outsider’.
Our watchman Munna reports to work at 5 am sharp, two hours before duty.
There is only one way to sum up the media assault that followed the molestation...
Well, well, well. So the Chai-Paani cadres have successfully subdued the Single Malt Set.
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...
Instead of submitting meekly to this sound and fury, we need to ensure festivals signify the sublime.
Not long ago, a gentleman turned up at our door with a large box. “Madam,” he said gravely, “according to our records...
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’
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.
Once the party is over, birthdays have a knack of throwing up disquieting existential questions. Laugh or ignore them at your peril
It’s justice delayed for blast victims; but 15 years later, justice continues to remain elusive for riot victims
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
Thought for the first anniversary of 7/11: Surely terrorism took its cue from the casual savagery on Mumbai’s trains
What Mumbai needs more than infrastructure is intolerance of chaos
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?”...
One man must pay for our collective sins of commission and omission. Meanwhile, life for Mumbai’s pavement dwellers is unchanged
A Mumbai psychiatrist recently claimed that the average Indian thinks about the Bachchans at least once every day.
There's one teensy-weensy detail about the Hurley-Nayar wedding
As Mumbai votes for its municipal corporation today, there are reasons why this may not be just another civic election. Something has changed
