The plaza paradiseSo in five months, the Mumbadevi-Zaveri Bazaar will become a seven-lane pedestrian utopia, unspolit by fumes, horns, or irritable drivers.
December 3, 2007
A/C cabs? Prepare to be cheated in luxury!The Road Transport Office (RTO) has collaborated with a private fleet management firm to train taxi drivers to appreciate their responsibilities.
November 24, 2007
Forget marshals, we all need anti-dirt HarrysThe Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation wants to position civic marshals on the city’s streets to monitor your hygiene habits. It is not a bad idea at all.
November 17, 2007
Silent spring will comeThe firecracker industry in Sivakasi was set up several years back (at least after Lord Rama returned to Ayodhya).
November 10, 2007
Switch off AC, light a candleFirst the fact: Recently, the state electricity board has shut down power in “unscheduled” loadshedding, of more than two hours a day, in Thane and Navi Mumbai.
November 3, 2007
Dress-code tyranny, ladies firstA city college thinks T-shirts are vulgar. So exercised was the institution by the polluting impudence of the T-shirt that it cracked down on girls wearing them.
October 27, 2007
Bad roads lead to slow courtsBut what does the Maharashtra government do in 2007 when potholes, rains, and snarl-ups let off the stench of desperation?
October 20, 2007
Shoe-shine eviction soils city biz imageBoot polishers are entrepreneurs like dabbawallahs, but we don't like grubby people James Brown, ‘The Godfather of Soul’, redefined 20th century’s popular music with frenzied boldness.
October 13, 2007
Banks, be ready for the backlashBanks like the HSBC, which have daft, oppressive credit-recovery policies, might just create the conditions in Mumbai for the development of new wave vigilantism.
October 6, 2007
Mumbai needs ‘broken windows’ policingOnly the ‘broken windows’ style of law enforcement can clean Mumbai of testosterone-drenched crimes.
September 22, 2007
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