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By the sea

Sunday 15 November '09

Cinque Terre are five fishing villages on the Italian Riviera where much hasn’t changed in almost a thousand years
Dressing up Hrithik

Thursday 5 November '09

Once upon a time, not too many seasons ago, I wrote how every fashion designer worth his sewing machine was aching to be in Bollywood...
Stayed in India

Tuesday 3 November '09

They may arguably be the newest arrivals in the Mumbai expat scene, but Giampaolo and Elisabetta Cutillo, the country’s new Italian consul general and his wife, are sparing no efforts to catch up.
So long, so much

Thursday 22 October '09

Low-key she may fool herself into believing she is, but Mumbai girl Monisha Jaising’s front row is proof of her ultra popularity with SoBo’s style bees.
Hearts and Soles

Wednesday 21 October '09

Diwali may be just behind us but the festive season will remain bright and sparkly until New Year’s Eve and assorted weddings are done.
So long, so much

Tuesday 20 October '09

Low-key she may fool herself into believing she is, but Mumbai girl Monisha Jaising’s front row is proof of her ultra popularity with SoBo’s style bees.
So Long

Tuesday 20 October '09

Low-key she may fool herself into believing she is, but Bombay girl Monisha Jaising’s front row is proof of her ultra popularity with SoBo’s style bees.
‘Sad about Advani’s silence, won’t return to BJP’

Wednesday 7 October '09

Former BJP member Jaswant Singh’s controversial book, Jinnah: India Partition Independence, was launched in Mumbai on Monday evening.
Jaswant in ‘Jinnah’s Bombay’: Jinnah House belongs to daughter

Wednesday 7 October '09

In Mumbai to launch his controversial piece of work, Jinnah: India-Partition-Independence , Jaswant Singh is not once the nervous author.
‘I’m just a jacket tailor’

Sunday 13 September '09

As India’s first menswear fashion week draws to a close, Rajesh Pratap Singh muses on his new collection and why fashion should be for the masses.
Fall and the guy

Thursday 10 September '09

Anyone in fashion will tell you September is the coolest month. It’s the beginning of the style cycle, this is when the moneymaking fall collections are ready for display and summer fashion is decided upon.
Unmasking the burqa

Thursday 9 July '09

Considering that the French love everything that’s indigenous and artisanal, the comments of the country’s president Nicholas Sarkozy about the burqa are a bit out of step.
Jump up, jump down

Thursday 25 June '09

It’s only June and the Spring Summer preps for the assorted fashion weeks have begun already. Of course, it’s still time for sketches to be drawn and not a stitch of clothing is conceptualised yet.
From Versace couture to Byculla jail, a long and lonely road

Tuesday 9 June '09

A favourite story about Sheetal Mafatlal is how she would hate being called a page-three perennial.
A Day’s Dream

Thursday 9 April '09

As soon as I check in at the Dream Hotel, Kochi, a text message invites me to Vikram Chatwal’s Presidential Suite for a drink.
Keep Dreaming

Wednesday 8 April '09

As soon as I check in at the Dream Hotel, Kochi, a text message invites me to Vikram Chatwal’s Presidential Suite for a drink.
Keep Dreaming

Wednesday 8 April '09

As soon as I check in at the Dream Hotel, Kochi, a text message invites me to Vikram Chatwal’s Presidential Suite for a drink.
Miss Manners naomi

Friday 3 April '09

We’ve all heard of her tantrums from those who’ve escaped a phone being flung at them. And even though she’s been put through community service, British supermodel Naomi Campbell, who has visited India almost a dozen times already...
Naomi’s trip was all about little drinking and lots of manners

Thursday 2 April '09

Naomi, has visited India almost a dozen times already, was all manners and grace at her last Mumbai visit.
Miss Manners naomi

Thursday 2 April '09

We’ve all heard of her tantrums from those who’ve escaped a phone being flung at them. And even though she’s been put through community service...
Miss Manners Naomi

Thursday 2 April '09

We’ve all heard of her tantrums from those who’ve escaped a phone being flung at them. And even though she’s been put through community service, British supermodel Naomi Campbell who has visited India almost a dozen times already...
If the recession’s here, don’t tell us

Friday 27 March '09

Inescapably, most of the chatter at the two just concluded fashion weeks in Delhi was more about money and less about clothes.
Putting 26/11 behind, Oberoi chef returns ‘for peace’

Wednesday 25 March '09

It has taken him four months to express his pain, but when Chef Emanuele Lattanzi finally does open up, the emotional Italian in him takes over.
Jai Ho Bombay

Sunday 8 March '09

It was just the kind of balm that a bruised Mumbai needed after being brutally attacked not too many months ago.
For better or verse, an ‘ode’ Congress-BJP tie-up

Tuesday 3 March '09

Ahead of the elections, here’s some poetry to bridge the divide between two of the biggest and competing political parties.
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