Monday 30 March '09
Why would a group of visually impaired people walk the streets of Mumbai trying to capture its famous landmarks? Why would they risk capturing images that they can never see?Wednesday 25 March '09
As she sampled the world around her through a pair of opera glasses, Charulata embodied wide eyed curiosity. Her samplings may have been limited to the goings on of her part of the world, but the spirit of Charulata was hungry for more.Monday
23 March '09It’s the dead zone of an unnaturally hot afternoon. The crowd at the Coffee House has trickled to the die-hard regulars, and the hustle and bustle of College Street seems to be a distant dream thanks to the whir of the rickety old fans which drown all outside noise.Thursday
19 March '09It’s easy to figure out why Japanese wadaiko drummers have such great bodies. Ripples of some invisible energy, it seems, travel through their toned muscles to erupt in a confident boom.Tuesday
17 March '09One of the beauties of being in Benares is that any direction feels like progress. No matter where you turn, the city has something new to offer...Monday
16 March '09Its funny how fame brings with it some unwanted baggage. Western Classical music and the Gaza conflict may have nothing to do with each other...Saturday
14 March '09The Parsi Mumbai of Little Zizou is in middle of everything, yet oblivious to the world around .Wednesday
18 February '09This can be an unlikely and late Valentine’s Day gift for your partner. It might not have a fancy French name, but it’s a tongue twister all right. Pazhaam Paysam.Tuesday
17 February '09In a unique thanksgiving mission, Mumbai-based businessman Amit Lall is on a 36-day motoring tour across the country to reach out to the armed forces, who risk their lives to protect civilians.Sunday
15 February '09Our correspondent realises that being an usher is not exactly entertainingWednesday
4 February '09Airports, stadiums and malls, for most of us these are little more than urban public places, but for Boston-based Indian artist, Kanishka Raja, they are symbols of change.Saturday
24 January '09This is not a review, but a comparative study of the latest Bollywood spook fest, Raaz- The Mystery Continues, and the 1988 Ramsay film Veerana, a prototype of the 1980s Bollywood horror genre, based on the following categories.Sunday
25 January '09Poster art finds chroniclers and innovators as the market for nostalgia growsWednesday
21 January '09Come to think of it, the phenomenon called Farhan Akhtar was waiting to happen. A product of Bollywood, who stands for everything that is right with the industry and devoid of everything that is wrong, Akhtar is an anomaly.Thursday
15 January '09In the controversial episode of a popular show of a news channel (the very one where actor Simi Garewal was accused of making racist remarks)...Wednesday
7 January '09By now, most of us have probably seen at least one episode of Indian Idol 4 and maybe even have a favourite or two among contestants.Saturday
3 January '09He is, supposedly, the ‘sexiest man alive’ in the planet today. He is dirty and sweaty throughout the film, just in the way women, and may we say, some men, love.Friday
2 January '09As the New Year settles in, the entertainment industry in India is in the middle of a revolution. Though Bollywood and to some extent Tollywood...Wednesday
31 December '08It’s is the last day of the year and there are two big Bollwood blockbusters ruling cinema halls across the country. Yes they are both Khan starrers...Saturday
27 December '08In his two decade-long career, Aamir Khan has played a supercop in drag (Baazi), a Pakistani terrorist doubling up as a lover boy (Fanaa) and a taxi driver who woos a millionaire heiress (Raja Hindusatni).Tuesday
23 December '08It’s a dream come true for any Satyajit Ray fan—laying ones’ hand upon scripts written by the Master that were never made into films.Saturday
20 December '08In the early 1990s when Jim Carrey burst into the comedy scene with Ace Ventura films we all loved the audacity of the actor-this goofy...Tuesday
16 December '08When best-selling author Simon Winchester put together an anthology on Kolkata, the book, in essence, said that even if Kolkata is dirty and smelly and chaotic (“a public nightmare,” “a truly infernal city”), it still casts a spell over those who stop here.Monday
15 December '08For the last five years, Tollywood had been raking in the moolah from Mithunda’s action potboilers as it thought the former Bollywood superstar is still macho at 60. Not any more.Saturday
13 December '08Maybe Amritsar is all about quaint gullies and meticulously tended aangans. Maybe people do fall in love at first sight. Maybe small-town India is actually populated with people like Surinder Saini...
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