Saturday 4 July '09
So Punjab is our closet-Las Vegas. If you are to believe Kambakht Ishq and its clan, the day Punjabi men are done biking across wheat, paddy...Friday 3 July '09
It's as if someone stole five seconds off a random Monday morning in the city held them still on paper.Thursday
2 July '09Picture this: Two women. Not exactly a stylist’s dream-come-true at that. Engaged in a liplock, as the newspaper headline screams a welcome to our care-worn, adventure-shorn Tollywood’s first full-blown ‘lesbian kiss’.Tuesday
30 June '09It’s in common knowledge how democracy was sent on a roller-coaster ride, probably the very day our country shook hands with it ceremoniously.Saturday
27 June '09It’s not that our bit of the world jumped onto a time machine and woke up in a Karan Johar film with the year 2000, but some things were not willing to court the photoshopped psychedelia that waited to welcome the 21st century.Monday
22 June '09Though the cult of brave films (think Celina Jaitley, pre-historic shocking pink lycra skirts, music that gives K-serial signature tunes stiff competition) is growing with each passing day in Bollywood...Saturday
20 June '09Sarod maestro Ali Akbar Khan’s secretary Ashish Roy wouldn’t possibly forget the 2006 Dover Lane Music Conference in Kolkata, the city from where Khan started his musical journey.Saturday
13 June '09Why do heartbroken, chiffon- clad Bollywood lovers end up on cliffs and mountains that for some reason resemble half eaten truffle pastries almost everywhere outside India?Thursday
11 June '09Ever since the ilish graduated from being a Bengali culinary elite to a national fixation of sorts, it courted a robust makeover, that hitherto only a certain Miss Shetty’s nose could claim comparison to.Tuesday
9 June '09It was not everyday that you strained your ears to catch every word fighting the buzz of a decades-old film print.Thursday
4 June '09Before headbanging invaded the calculated euphoria typical of music in our corner of the country, the ’90s had stood witness to a sound revolution of a different sort.Tuesday
2 June '09Someplace Else on Saturdays is usually a pretty picture. Literally. If you want a first hand low down on high fashion, it’s actually not a bad idea to drop in at the city’s celebrated music mecca over the weekend.Monday
1 June '09How do you think Mirza Ghalib and electronica would have associated themselves with each other? You’re probably tempted to say, they would give up even before they said Hello.Saturday
30 May '09Deep in the heart of the Vatican, dark conspiracies are being hatched. Shrouded in whites and blacks, priests and cardinals nod knowingly at each other while the candlelight casts an eerie glow on their faces.Thursday
28 May '09The Left, clearly, was not prepared to swallow the caustic pill forced down its throat in its own sacred ground. And several others weren’t also prepared to find their favourite dartboard tattered beyond belief.Wednesday
27 May '09When Orkut happened to the world, an entire generation went on warpath trying to ‘add’ half the world to his/her friend list.Friday
22 May '09It’s true that the world continues to be an unkind place for artists who still have to shuffle around galleries to be heard or seen.Wednesday
20 May '09Not very long ago, if youngsters were not sulking their way to ‘vacations’ in Darjeeling and Shimla with the third cousin and his annoying great aunt...Saturday
16 May '09So, why would you go and watch 99? Because Cyrus Broacha makes you feel good about baby…err… the whole big fat family of fat, in general...Sunday
17 May '09The final frontier is not out of reach. Here’s a beginner’s guide to the stargazer’s lifeWednesday
13 May '09It’s been thirty years since Nahid Ali (name changed on request), now an Elliot Road resident, turned eighteen.Saturday
9 May '09Throughout Changeling, except for a handful of frames, Angelina Jolie wears a cruel red lipstick that somehow refuses to yield to all the clichés...Thursday
7 May '09Summers and sloth usually come together in an unholy pact this time of the year, making it extremely difficult to venture anywhere out of the cool confines of an ideally air conditioned room.Monday
4 May '09Bengali cinema for several people, otherwise unfamiliar with either the language or its creative heritage, is synonymous with Satyajit Ray.Friday
1 May '09Before online games had invaded summer vacations, it was a strange army of scatterbrained vagabonds, gentle giants and wily pranksters that helped several Bengalis get by sweaty afternoons.
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