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Jai Ho Bombay

Thursday 5 March '09

It was just the kind of balm that a bruised Mumbai needed after being brutally attacked not too many months ago.
Man About Town

Tuesday 10 February '09

Enough gossip space has been dedicated over the last two years to the divorce of Raja Dhody and ex-Delhi model Queenie who were married under Islamic law while he was still married to first wife Rita.
A ear for an eye

Wednesday 21 January '09

The post-Mumbai response has thankfully avoided stereotyping Muslims
Threesomes

Wednesday 21 January '09

When Woody Allen moved his films out of provincial Manhattan, New York City, well, let’s just say the vacation does him good.
How to carry a big bag on an empty wallet

Wednesday 7 January '09

For many in the industry, 2009 opens on a very dismal note. News is that Chanel is cutting 10 per cent of its workforce—200 jobs in Paris, including 16 positions in their fabulous Rue Cambon flagship.
The man with the handbag

Saturday 3 January '09

His book, Bringing Home The Birkin, has had the fashionistas in a giggling fit ever since its release last April.
Lost and found

Wednesday 10 December '08

Thanksgiving Day in New York City is much hype and little hurrah. The mood back home in Mumbai played dampener...
Urban legend

Sunday 7 December '08

A collapse in infrastructure, rising pollution levels and now a constant fear of terror—is this the beginning of the end for the metropolis?
If it’s Monday, make it feminine

Wednesday 19 November '08

Even though the weather is turning nippy, there’s a spring in the fashionista’s footstep—winter fashion spills over with fabulousness.
Flashy ‘Fashion’

Wednesday 5 November '08

Madhur Bhandarkar’s new film is better than everyone’s saying
In Hermes we trust

Wednesday 8 October '08

Two years ago, all of Mumbai’s high society was giggling about a socialite who lives in a Worli bungalow and claimed to have walked into an Hermes store in Milan and walked out with a Birkin.
‘I wish I can party at 65 the way I can today’

Wednesday 1 October '08

In a nondescript shamble at Thakurdwar near Mumbai, amid a hundred or so senior citizens playing carrom, reading magazines or practising yoga, is where Tina Ambani, the wife of Anil Ambani, one of the richest men if not the most influential, seems to be at most ease.
Hope I can still party at 65, says India Inc’s first lady

Tuesday 30 September '08

It’s a nondescript shamble at Thakurdwar, where a hundred odd citizens are playing carrom, reading magazines or practicing yoga.
Couture Week or marketing gig?

Saturday 20 September '08

India's first couture week is tripping on its baby steps. Not only is the show earning the brickbats of designers and media alike for its shoddy show area and poor-quality organisation...
Who’s afraid of a price tag?

Sunday 21 September '08

Pallavi Jaikishen, one of India’s few and finest couturiers, on all that it takes to put together a fashion show that’s worth being at India Couture Week
Couture Week or marketing gig?

Friday 19 September '08

India's first couture week is tripping on its baby steps. Not only is the show earning the brickbats of designers and media alike for its shoddy show area and poor-quality organisation
WRITER’S BLOG

Sunday 24 August '08

Teenage girls, messy kisses and men who cry — it is like printouts of a virtual diary
YSL’s Delhi connection remembers from Paris

Thursday 5 June '08

Ex-model and Paris socialite Kirat Young was noted designer’s muse for over a decade
India Inc looks to ramp up catwalk, bring it to a mall next door

Sunday 16 March '08

The first moves have begun by mega players, both Indian and international, to tie up with fashion designers and bring the ramp to the market.
CHEZ PARIS

Sunday 16 March '08

Paris Fashion Week is where fashion designers are gods and their clothes are epiphanies; it’s also where you sleep in high heels and wake up and brush your teeth with champagne
After desert chill, Material Girl’s next stop: Mumbai

Friday 4 January '08

She has been in Rajasthan all week, soaking in the chilled air and taking in as much of the rustic life as her glamorous lifestyle will let her.
Waiting for Granta

Thursday 6 December '07

What’s the worst thing about marriage?” my soon-to-be-married cousin asked.
High heels don’t hurt

Thursday 13 September '07

It’s time the fashion industry stopped taking itself so seriously
THAT Fashion WEEK FEELING

Sunday 2 September '07

Here’s a walk through six weeks in a designer’s head in the run-up to a make-or-break fashion week show. A behind-the-seams account of how it all comes together for a make-believe designer in a fantasy world
Rajni — the big boss

Tuesday 26 June '07

There’s more to the hysteria surrounding the Tamil superstar and his swivelling sunglasses
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