Trainee chef survives nightmare but loses all her colleagues

Monday 1 December '08

On Wednesday night as the world watched in horror all that unfolded in the island city, Pratika Pradip Patil, a trainee chef at the Taj hotel...

a‘Bach gaya toh kal college main milta hun’

Saturday 29 November '08

That 23-year-old chef Gautam Singh was one of the most popular students of the Hotel Administration and Food Technology course at Sophia Polytechnic makes it tougher for friends and colleagues...

Kapoors of Bollywood are awaiting a 52-year-old’s debut

Wednesday 13 August '08

Quitting a marketing job, Shammi Kapoor’s son returns to Mumbai, nostalgia, films—and home

‘I stuck behind my friend who fought his way out’

Friday 4 January '08

It was a routine assignment—a photograph of the J W Marriott’s star attraction at their New Year’s eve do, Bipasha Basu.

ALONE BY THE RIVER

Sunday 30 December '07

This month, Union Minister for Women and Child Development Renuka Chowdhury announced a plan to get the young widows of India remarried, starting with Vrindavan and moving on to Varanasi—the two temple towns where widows are often abandoned.The Sunday Express captures the lives of the women left alone at Varanasi, the Ganga their only companion.

WEAVERS OF PATRIOTISM

Sunday 12 August '07

The flag that gets unfurled at Red Fort on August 15 traces its origin to a factory in Mumbai