Thursday 8 March '07
There's one teensy-weensy detail about the Hurley-Nayar weddingThursday 1 February '07
As Mumbai votes for its municipal corporation today, there are reasons why this may not be just another civic election. Something has changedThursday
18 January '07Before we react to the barbs against Shilpa Shetty on Celebrity Big Brother, we should ask ourselves how different we are with those who live and work in our homesWednesday
6 December '06The same politics of divide and rule, the same pitting of ‘victim’ against ‘oppressor’. We’ve been here beforeWednesday
29 November '06Sanjay Dutt, traitor or Mahatma? Neither, says India, with the largeness of spirit that is so typically IndianWednesday
15 November '06No point being outraged by Mumbai’s killer drunk drivers if we don’t understand why even the city’s pavements are rented outSunday
24 September '06SIXTY Foot is an odd name for a road, but not in Dharavi, Asia’s largest slum. It was hastily slapped together to mark Rajiv Gandhi’s visit in 1985, and the width so impressed the locals that the new thoroughfare came to be known by its dimensions.Friday
22 September '06The Karnataka government has shut down 1,461 Kannada schools for switching to the Queen’s Language. We should make English our national language for reasons both practical and politicalWednesday
13 September '06The endgame in the Bombay blast case began on Tuesday. The country tuned in to watch; the city itself, victim of repeated violence, more or less switched offFriday
8 September '06Hundreds of bodies decomposing in Mumbai’s Tower of Silence due to the lack of vultures should have the Parsis rethink what they do with their deadFriday
1 September '06On Thursday, the Mumbai HC gave the BMC a month’s grace to repair potholes but it’s a long road aheadFriday
25 August '06Seawater turned sweet and idols drank milk last week. India is not just a country of miracles, it’s a miraculous country. Think about it, divine delusion helps us cope with harsh ground realities.Saturday
12 August '06If you can’t fix it ban it. That’s how we are increasingly solving our problems as a nation. Dance bars, child labour and colas, we’ve banned them all. Next?Thursday
10 August '06Today, after 13,000 pages of evidence and 686 witnesses, it’s judgment day for the 123 accused in the Bombay Blasts Case of 1993. But a verdict already seems to have been passed on the Mumbai Muslim, targeted over and over againSaturday
5 August '06The government just banned child labour in homes and restaurants. And the Human Rights Commission recommended that bureaucrats be punished for starvation deaths.Wednesday
26 July '06A year after the Mumbai’s killer rains, politicians rule with impunity, by intimidationFriday
14 July '06Look at Punjabi woman writing Ram Naam, listen to the snore from behind the burkaThursday
13 July '06You know what I think as Mumbai gets patted on the back for its spirit? I think Mumbai’s spirit of survival has become an expedient fait accompli, cold-bloodedly taken for granted by government after callous government.Wednesday
12 July '06Even at the best of times, there’s one scene that never changes: battered railway coaches packed with the human flotsam of a brutal city.Monday
10 July '06It has always been this way, I guess, from Lord Ram to Ramesh Sippy. Although love and marriage are not necessarily the same thing anywhere in the world...Thursday
6 July '06It doesn’t hurt having our troubles hijacked by the national media to increase readership and TRPs. Maybe, just maybe, the netas of New Delhi will feel compelled to put their money where their mouth is and bail us out of this messFriday
30 June '06For millions of Indians, June is Payback Time. Not stock market. But the biggest investment most of us make—our kids.Friday
23 June '06Will the PM’s call to action save the city? First, scan its chaos of numbersFriday
12 May '06How far we have come! Time was when school kids had to trawl the nether regions of the local lending library for their porn fix, carefully covered in brown paper to masquerade as respectable literatureFriday
28 April '06The student community seems poised on the brink of an anti-Mandal II wave—with medical students in Delhi taking the lead. But there is another side to the story too
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