Wake-up call for those sleepy satellite townsTerror is in the air and Mumbai, it seems, is becoming the Tora Bora of India, radiating fear and gore across the country’s cities.
August 11, 2008
Looking at life, the filmy waySo Mr Raj Thackeray does not want Bollywood to propagate the egregious fiction that some Maharashtrians may be earning an honest living as domestic helpers.
August 1, 2008
Delhi belly in city? No wayIt is that time of the year when street-food vendors are hounded out of business to protect Mumbai from E Coli
July 25, 2008
Why don’t we do something for our strays?Some forty dogs were poisoned by a man in Navi Mumbai recently. They were strays, and the murderer had been schooled by our penal code to remember that it is all right to kill.
July 19, 2008
70:30 for colleges? 100:0 for shoppingThe state government’s ’s—70:30 formula for college admissions— is a fantastic idea. I do not see why everyone is so exercised by it.
July 13, 2008
Rains and a blocked systemBMC officials were quick to blame a block in one of the Mithi outlets for the flooding on Tuesday
July 4, 2008
I got a girl child, gimme quotaLast week’s Metronama was an ill-tempered — and I concede, ill-advised — rant against reservation in colleges.
June 27, 2008
How I wish I was ‘project-affected’!But it is a dispiriting campaign because she does not seem to qualify for any of the 900 quotas that almost all of the city’s best colleges have set aside for special cases.
June 21, 2008
Cops have speed gun, where’s the gumption?You have to respect the speed gun. It looks grand. In fact, in the hands of uniformed traffic cops, it looks like the sacred phallic symbol of a powerful sci-fi cult.
June 14, 2008
City caught in jam, and foolishly unmovedRains threw a feeble warm-up delivery on Mumbai and the city collapsed dramatically. It was equivalent to a batsman being bowled, caught, and stumped - all at once.
June 7, 2008
City flats go bigger, but in bonsaied wayBut it is still a flat, I told myself with self-placatory irritation, as I tried to fix a profligate tap in my beloved two-bedroom sanctuary.
May 31, 2008
Mumbai seems greener from Garden CityThis week’s Metronama comes from Bangalore, nobody insists on Bengaluru as long as one praises the clement weather of the city after being introduced to a local resident.
May 24, 2008
Something about Mumbai that won't be soiledOn Friday, I lost my aunt. Personal loss, though it has pushed me into a prodigiously dark daze, has no place in a column that amplifies public concerns.
May 10, 2008
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