Wednesday 16 September '09
While we were being brought up in a carefully cultivated English wilderness picking daffodils and chasing the rain away, Grandma tried to ensure that Ramgorurer Chhana did not pale in the British glamour of Humpty Dumpty.Monday 14 September '09
If you thought models were impossibly tall pancake and bronzer wonders, it’s time for a reality check.Sunday
6 September '09Elephant dung, banana fibre, old wine bottles, newspapers and shredded prints can help make your home get chicMonday
31 August '09When Bombay Dost was launched in 1990, its readers couldn’t afford the comforts of being discreet, courtesy the internet.Friday
28 August '09A few decades back, when Amol Palekar was giving the bungling faceless man a little more than just his share of ordinariness on screen, he knew that his posters wouldn’t be up on bedroom walls and he wouldn’t wake up to a legion of screaming fans.Thursday
27 August '09With the global economic downturn, it would be strange if the Durga Pujas remain unaffected by it. But it seems that the financial crunch has only hit the small para clubs rather than the big and famous ones, which are not thinking of slashing their budgets.Monday
24 August '09At 21, Deen is not your average textbook romantic. His disapproval of the circuitous tracks that establishments...Friday
21 August '09For a fourteen-year-old, Ayesha Kapoor sounds surprisingly calm. Her voice doesn’t betray the excitement of a teenager who is just a week away from the release of her second film.Tuesday
18 August '09While caffeine and addiction have become synonymous for a generation that lives out their days huddled in brightly-lit coffee shops, it’s a sip of the milky Indian chai that keeps our big, fat country going.Saturday
15 August '09What happened every time Dhen Te Na burst on your television screen? You blinked, squinted, blinked again and obstinately fought the cunning red glow to tell man from woman, blue from black, light from dark.Friday
14 August '09Piyush Jha’s Sikandar could be located anywhere —here, in some other country, some other continent also. But he chose Kashmir.Tuesday
11 August '09Fifteen years ago Someplace Else was all about shimmer, stilettos and the turntable. Its first steps towards live music-dom from a teenybopper’s disco-dream-come true, was peppered with some apprehension alright.Monday
10 August '09Music World on Park Street is abuzz with a flurry of activities. Cursing camera men, harried shop attendants, and mobile phone-happy aunties crane their necks...Saturday
8 August '09Though skirting past logic is the first clause in the Bollywood bible, teenage pregnancy is not exactly an excuse to open a book of clichés and shed buckets of glycerin-aided tears.Friday
31 July '09Imtiaz Ali is a picture of patience. With some spice thrown in, of course. While he doesn’t blink before a volley of unimaginative questions (“How do you feel in Kolkata?”Wednesday
29 July '09Zubair Kirmani will not tell you that yellow is the new pink, or it’s futile to make a beeline for the A-line this season. He doesn’t quite believe in fashion predictions and says there’s a shrewd business head which dethrones colours every other month.Monday
27 July '09How would a trademark Bollywood twist ever come to your aid in the conference room, where you usually don’t bat an eyelid outside the company rule book?...Saturday
25 July '09Luck is good news for all those who have no regard for the movie going etiquette. You can turn up half-an-hour late and still say what is going on. And this would require no great imagination of you.Wednesday
22 July '09Writer Chandrahas Choudhury admits to looking at a dwarf with ‘interest’. Though he has never interacted with someone with similar physical attributes...Tuesday
21 July '09The Bengal stage is no stranger to revolution. Over decades it has lent itself to discovery, to dissent, to emotional dialogues.Friday
17 July '09Now that there’s one reality show to every saas bahu saga on TV, it might be a little difficult to exactly place the names Sharib and Toshi.Wednesday
15 July '09Between borders, there’s not just a bit of land we call a country.Monday
13 July '09Even if we ignore Akshaye Khanna’s cultured hair and a pan-caked, dyed Sanjay Dutt as an item boy, Short Kut leaves us with some equally disturbing questions to answer.Sunday
12 July '09A warm chocolate pudding is only a few whisks and mixes awayFriday
10 July '09As Vikram Seth’s suitable girl sashays down the booklover’s imagination, she probably raises questions that are almost new to bookworms in our country.
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