Shades of passion

Monday 5 October '09

Ten hour long shifts of vegetable selling has not deterred the spirit of this man to fill those straight, curved and squiggly lines with colours.

Freezing fauna

Wednesday 16 September '09

Filmmaker Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra wanted to enter the space created by them.

Trained tunes

Thursday 17 September '09

This group of piano maestros will have you know that it is the analogy of an athlete that is needed for playing the instrument.

Sum them up

Tuesday 15 September '09

Even though Ashwini Garg is a mechanical engineer, his numerically-inclined mind accepts defeat when his seven-year-old sons confront him while doing sums.

Beating the odds

Monday 14 September '09

A group of 15 slum kids shed their inhibitions for their love for dance.

Cut to Kashmir

Thursday 10 September '09

From scenic images to the picture of a war torn land, some snow-clad mountains and many barbed wire fences, director Mohit Takalkar’s image of Kashmir was replete with such elements until he had a tryst with the land itself.

Grass root level

Monday 31 August '09

A patch of 8 by 12 ft land is lush green with pudina plants. Just adjacent to it one more bed awaits a new entrant - the lemon grass.

Heavy mettle

Monday 24 August '09

Just when across the city, idols of Ganesha were acquiring their final shapes...

Interlude

Friday 21 August '09

A city whose multiplexes pull down their shutters and theatres put to halt their projectors finds refuge in libraries, CD shops and roadside bookstalls. And these are the places that after the threat of swine flu became the happening hangouts.

The art epidemic

Thursday 13 August '09

Starved and famished, with a string of cancellation of programmes, that were quick to follow in succession for the past couple of weekends, the art scene in the city has recently suffered the worst setback of the season.

Guardian angels

Monday 10 August '09

They knew situation will worsen after Reeda Shaikh’s death and it did get worse.

Bond with hope

Monday 3 August '09

It was November when Neelima Dorke’s 15-year-old stamped his feet...

Lady with the lamp

Monday 27 July '09

Seventy-four-year old Piloo Wadia worked for NGOs, looked after the underprivileged, treated the physically-disabled, administered social causes but still could not part with the deep longing to serve society.

On a roll

Monday 20 July '09

This Maharashtrian has always faced an identity crisis.

News you can use

Monday 20 July '09

When the habit of reading newspapers was breathing its last in the US, this US national was on the lookout for a place where they were still alive and kicking.

Hello MJ

Wednesday 15 July '09

Vodafone has it and so does Airtel; Idea too follows suit and using this special feature provided by the telecom companies the fans of Pop god Michael Jackson once again relive his memories.

Rag alert

Monday 13 July '09

The city’s medical and engineering students, the worst sufferers of ragging, are a part of the group. So are law students and those studying management.

Lifting spirits

Monday 13 July '09

Past midnight, a stretcher zooms into the corridor of the hospital, and a group of panic-stricken people rush to the elevator.

In old age turning a new page

Sunday 12 July '09

For a fraction of second Arvind Yadne felt 76. Twenty one days that spanned across the beautifully treacherous terrains of Arunachal Pradesh...

His colourful life

Friday 10 July '09

As a nine-year-old, Burhan Nagarwala was awestruck by his moves; at 15, it was the pop icon’s nonchalance that swept him off his feet. Now 22, emotions of similar intensity engulf him.

From here to eternity

Monday 6 July '09

1935, Prabhat Studio, Pune. A dhobi, his eyes brimming with excitement, walks up to director V Shantaram, shares the happy news that he got a baby boy.

Queer frames

Sunday 5 July '09

After My Brother Nikhil, Onir turned his camera to romance and its various aspects but the experiment didn't quite work.

Dog-ged by weight

Tuesday 30 June '09

An hour passes by and the couch is still not empty; Pritha has nudged him thrice, but the stout figure refuses to budge.

Not just words

Friday 26 June '09

Prajakta Gadekar’s vocabulary woes did not end with her student life. When confronted with her six-year-old’s questions like – ‘What is the English of prasad or phodni or jootha?’, Gadekar is left appalled.

3-fold rise in applicants for FTII sound design course

Friday 26 June '09

Till this year, it drew only a maximum of 30 applications for its 12 seats but when the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) started sorting through the applications for its new academic year...