Sweet, deathly smell of successWhat the audience and the fans see are glamour and glitz, all carefully planned right down to the last fake smile. The reality is far seedier.
May 25, 2008
Alas, poor Bombay! I knew it wellBal Thackeray may be rooting for the Marathi-speaker population, but has a cosmopolitan side to him.
May 18, 2008
Banishing Husain shames us allSome time in the 1980s, artist MF Husain held an unusual exhibition at the Jehangir Art gallery.
May 11, 2008
The annual corporate waiting gameCome the end of the financial year and the beginning of a new one, the talk in offices turns to, not taxes or vacations as you might guess, but increments.
May 4, 2008
It’s time to honour those who died to bring you the truthThe main objective of World Press Freedom Day is to focus attention on one issue, in this case the freedom of the media to write and report freely and without hindrance.
May 1, 2008
The ghost of Enoch Powell lives here tooForty years ago this week, British politician Enoch Powell made a speech that will live in infamy for its evocation of hatred and bigotry
April 26, 2008
‘India’s better off as an independent power’Diplomat and scholar, Kishore Mahbubani has been provoking discussion and argument with many of his theses and books for the last three decades.
April 20, 2008
Which Gandhi will we finally get?Priyanka Vadra would make a much better prime minister than Rahul Gandhi. Why doesn’t the Congress push her, instead of him?” This was a common enough comment
April 20, 2008
Interior decoration is the new pornAmong the scores — or is it hundreds — of channels delivered to my television set by my friendly neighbourhood cablewallah is a new one called simply Real Estate Television.
April 13, 2008
Help, we are turning into our childrenParents of today have to also ensure that they are cool, tech-savvy and don’t sound and look like fossils.In short, they should become their children.
April 6, 2008
Why is religion still such a holy cow?Anyone who has seen a Mike Myers film will testify that the man is a crazed genius, with an unstoppable sense of humour that borders on the insane.
March 30, 2008
Living la vita, the dolce wayGetting away from India, even for a few days, provides a much needed respite from the obsessions that preoccupy our fair nation.
March 23, 2008
Give us this day our daily BollywoodIs there any aspect of our quotidian existence that has not been invaded and infiltrated by Bollywood?
March 9, 2008
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