Did the cell phone kill the movie star?

Looking at stardom, when the size of the screen matters so much

Mayank Shekhar

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A date for Bombay

Why not institute a foundation year to relive our meteoric rise as a city of the world?

Fiona Fernandez

5 yesterday

How much will the loan waiver help farmers?

The extent of its benefits may have to be analysed, but having pleased them to an extent, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis faces another challenge,...

Dharmendra Jore

5 yesterday

There is no longer a middle ground

Finding a middle path is impossible when the only choice is between life and death, toxicity and civility, bigotry and 'anti-nationalism'

Aditya Sinha

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How Sanskrit evolved in India

In extremist Christian America, evolution is a bad word. Children are taught Creationism, or Intelligent Design, which insists on the role of God...

Devdutt Pattanaik

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Tubelight - desperate measures

I am a big fan of Kabir Khan

Meenakshi Shedde

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High five for Heritage Mile

Stories from five old DN Road buildings in the week of Dadabhai Naoroji's 100th death anniversary

Meher Marfatia

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Are you 55 running?

So, I turned 55 yesterday

Rahul Da Cunha

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Bleeding adulthood

Last week, Pahlaj Nihalani, chief of the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) informed us that menstruation was an adult subject

Paromita Vohra

100 previous day

No beacon of hope in politics

Their flashing red lights on cars may have disappeared, but the sense of entitlement held by our MPs will take a long time to go away

Lindsay Pereira

40 saturday

A city of desire among ruins

In Athens, where you would imagine there to be a state of utter gloom, there is, instead, a passionate continuation of life

Rosalyn Dmello

8 23.06.2017

The buck should stop with BCCI

It is wrong to put the onus only on the CAC comprising Tendulkar, Ganguly and Laxman to pick the Indian cricket team's new coach

Clayton Murzello

20 22.06.2017

Sportsmanship applies to fans, too

Though India's loss in the ICC Champions Trophy was a shocker, as a fan, one must remember that winning and losing is part of the game

Ranjona Banerji

10 21.06.2017

What's Hasan got that Minhaj didn't?

How the unpretentious, emotional Netflix stand-up special 'Homecoming King' is the inflection point for Indian-Americans

Mayank Shekhar

10 20.06.2017

Arun Jaitley for President

He is perhaps the most acceptable face of the BJP for the Opposition, and presidency will be a historic final chapter for his political career

Aditya Sinha

20 19.06.2017

Will Sena take the bull by the horns?

BJP chief Amit Shah has declared the party's resolve to get rid of crutches that the Sena provides in the state. Will the BJP go solo in the 2019...

Dharmendra Jore

40 19.06.2017

Who moved our gargoyle?

The growing threat to Mumbai's restored heritage and absence of a concrete plan by the civic body to curb this menace is a matter of concern

Fiona Fernandez

7 19.06.2017

The laughter of women

In Kalidasa's works we hear descriptions of women being invited to the king's garden to sing, dance, play and laugh

Devdutt Pattanaik

550 18.06.2017

Traditional currency

The Bajrang Sene, an activist group in Madhya Pradesh, is upset about something. It’s not entirely clear what

Paromita Vohra

70 18.06.2017

Corporatised FTII Flashforward

Raja Andhayug examined the rings on each of his fingers fondly

Meenakshi Shedde

40 18.06.2017

Hello, is it me you're looking for?

So, I'm faced with a massive problem - a grave telecommunications issue

Rahul Da Cunha

30 18.06.2017

The bulge in the middle India

As small town India evolves, will new hierarchies replace the old caste-based social order? Playwright Ashutosh Potdar's just-published collection...

Sumedha Raikar-Mhatre

10 18.06.2017

A Rs 3,600-crore political stunt

If the government of Maharashtra claims to care about Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, it has some very illogical ways of showing it

Lindsay Pereira

9 17.06.2017

Living the history of here

The writer finds herself going back to the phrase, which locates the notion of history as something transient but still in the now

Rosalyn Dmello

6 16.06.2017

India Leeds despite loss in 1967

It's 50 years since one of the finest Indian performances on English shores, where MAK Pataudi led by example at the Yorkshire venue

Clayton Murzello

9 15.06.2017

Still battling the 'demon'etisation

The anger of farmers, slowing down of the economy, layoffs - we were warned of it all but our cheerleaders kept up their false rah-rahs

Ranjona Banerji

10 14.06.2017

When you can sleep no more

On the craziness that goes on inside Hotel McKittrick on Manhattan's 27th street, the site of a 150-minute, part Macbeth adaptation

Mayank Shekhar

7 13.06.2017

It's not anti-national to insult Bapu?

Amit Shah's 'chatur baniya' remark seems to be part of a 'death by a thousand cuts' approach against Gandhi, a tactic also used by Pak

Aditya Sinha

10 12.06.2017

Sounds from a Metro

As work on Metro III continues in full throttle, let's hope the row of iconic heritage buildings that dot the stretch in Fort survive the drill

Fiona Fernandez

6 12.06.2017

Pyaasa

I had the enormous pleasure of seeing Guru Dutt's Pyaasa (The Thirsty One, 1957) on the big screen in Mumbai last week

Meenakshi Shedde

50 11.06.2017

The pea-brahmachari

At the heart of the hysteria over the peacock's tears is Hinduism's great discomfort with sex

Devdutt Pattanaik

10 11.06.2017

Masterchef, maitre d's and momos

So, dear reader, it's been an action-packed week. Much has happened in international affairs, with George Clooney attaining fatherhood, and Comey...

Rahul Da Cunha

60 11.06.2017

Grains of Song

"In the forest, in the woods, who is weeping? Listen! Bori-babhali [jujube and acacia trees] are the 'women' who listen to and console Sita."

Paromita Vohra

50 11.06.2017

Monsoon is back and it's choking

Even a person with a half-functional brain can realise that someone is earning a significant amount to ensure our roads will never be smooth

Lindsay Pereira

10 10.06.2017

Feasting on freedom in Berlin

The highlight of being in Berlin was wandering late into the night, tasting the culture and food, with no one to stop and question us

Rosalyn Dmello

10 09.06.2017

Passion must always stay in fashion

Mumbai's selection committee will do well to emulate the likes of Dilip Sardesai and Naren Tamhane, fine selectors and super mentors

Clayton Murzello

20 08.06.2017

Cultivation of mind is necessary

When the allegorical lessons about human life in mythology are taken literally, you are reduced to parroting illogical mumbo-jumbo

Ranjona Banerji

10 07.06.2017

Not a jhol, just good ol' Joel

If monuments were vibrations, any trip would be incomplete without hearing the musician you associate a city with

Mayank Shekhar

8 06.06.2017

Next change

The government's next game changer could be to rename the country Hindustan, says our veteran columnist, and explains the reasons behind it and how...

Aditya Sinha

100 05.06.2017

Art dekho

Despite being fascinating examples of architecture and history that are entwined with Mumbai's rise as India's film capital, its heritage cinema...

Fiona Fernandez

6 05.06.2017

Why is Bharat so upset with India?

As the statewide farmers' strike has held cities to ransom as part of its agenda to make it hurt where it counts, the government needs to tread a...

Dharmendra Jore

8 05.06.2017

What's new(s) anyway? Read ads

Even if things are not getting better on time, focus on how India has 'improved'. It's what the newspaper ads want you to do anyway

Lindsay Pereira

9 04.06.2017

Seas of Stories - A fantasy

I read two stories last week, which made me wonder about how we now respond to stories

Paromita Vohra

6 04.06.2017

Ghalib smiles in Sanskrit

Aside from arguing at Mumbai's Industrial Court, labour lawyer Satyanarayana Hegde deconstructs Urdu-Persian poetry of Mirza Ghalib in the...

Sumedha Raikar-Mhatre

7 04.06.2017

Gimme 'mor'

So, there was a time when the crow was under consideration to be the national bird. After all it had all qualities Indian – it is hardy,...

Rahul Da Cunha

80 04.06.2017

What are you waiting for?

Whether you've had to wait for hours, days or years to get somewhere, what's important is that we are here, at long last

Rosalyn Dmello

7 04.06.2017

Wisdom Tree 'katta'

It's funny how relatively small incidents can shape your entire life. So, a thank you party is long overdue, for all those who've been incredibly...

Meenakshi Shedde

60 04.06.2017

Itihasa is not fantasy

Itihasa is not fantasy; it is not history either at least not in Sanskrit

Devdutt Pattanaik

200 04.06.2017

Ashar and his sunshine ways

There was more to the departed wicketkeeper-batsman than just his Bradman-like scores which spiced up inter-school cricket in the 1960s

Clayton Murzello

9 01.06.2017

When you have a beef with logic

It is a striking sentiment that drives someone to commit murder in the name of the cow but allows one to walk past a sick cow eating garbage

Ranjona Banerji

30 31.05.2017

A love letter to the Big Apple

Hard to trump a city whose values are so innately hinged on hard work and humanism. NY is perennially present-continuous

Mayank Shekhar

10 30.05.2017

NE for Never Ending acronyms

Here are some acronyms a la PM Narendra Modi, whose overriding contribution to the nation has been a stream of pithy catchphrases

Aditya Sinha

10 29.05.2017

The fading out of a green signal

Mumbai's natural heritage and flora and fauna along the eastern front is a green fairytale that is looking at a grim future after the Mumbai...

Fiona Fernandez

10 29.05.2017

Disaster strikes twice, is anyone awake yet?

Following two consecutive helicopter incidents involving the chief minister within a month, the aviation machinery might want to reanalyse the...

Dharmendra Jore

10 29.05.2017

Male verbs and female nouns

In his speech at an industrial conclave, a very reputed and successful businessman said that an entrepreneur needs to know when to create like...

Devdutt Pattanaik

100 28.05.2017

Unstoppable at Cannes

I've been to the Cannes Film Festival three or four times. The first time, I was on the FIPRESCI International Critics' Jury at Cannes in 2001, the...

Meenakshi Shedde

10 28.05.2017

Baharaon phool barsao

You know that purple zinnia? Daisy? Whatever - the purple flower on Facebook? Last year, when it briefly appeared I never knew what it stood for

Paromita Vohra

80 28.05.2017

Who let the dogs out?

So, as the BMC mercilessly hacks trees, and the BJP government, completes three years of 'Acche Din', I wonder, if our CEO at all feels he's heading...

Rahul Da Cunha

60 28.05.2017

Hit the streets, learn a lesson

The young and old don't stand a chance in an environment where the act of getting onto a bus or train is fraught with all kinds of dangers

Lindsay Pereira

10 27.05.2017

Who said solo travel is lonely?

Travelling solo doesn't have to mean being alone; if anything, owning your solitude helps you make new friends and memories

Rosalyn Dmello

8 26.05.2017

Making a pitch for cricket drama

Ahead of the release of Sachin: A Billion Dreams, the writer zeroes in on five anecdotes that would have made fine scenes on film

Clayton Murzello

10 25.05.2017

Systemic corruption is our reality

There are enough examples of nefarious deals in the government, but talking about it would be anti-national and, bizarrely, 'pro-corruption'

Ranjona Banerji

10 24.05.2017

IPL 10

The newer Indian and overseas players in the IPL have started taking centre-stage and it will reflect in the next season's auction, too

Aakash Chopra

10 23.05.2017

Matheran Railway deserves its due

As we wait for the charming toy train to resume services, efforts towards obtaining its UNESCO World Heritage Site status seems to be forgotten

Fiona Fernandez

7 22.05.2017

Spinning gold out of saffron

Three years in, PM Narendra Modi is loved more than ever by the people, and just like King Midas, everything he touches turns to gold

Aditya Sinha

10 22.05.2017

SoBo to NoBo is a no no

So, I've done the unthinkable. As a confirmed South Bombayite, I've gone and rented a small North Mumbai office in Bandra. All hell has broken...

Rahul Da Cunha

100 21.05.2017

Mixing memory and desire

Ritesh Batra's The Sense of an Ending is a restrained, elegant, very British reverie on the nature of memory and desire, conveying a great deal in...

Meenakshi Shedde

40 21.05.2017

Moving on from stop-and-start

A ten-step manual to cope with stammering is a first-ever structured activity devised for Mumbai's stutterers, set to meet at a conference to...

Sumedha Raikar-Mhatre

8 21.05.2017

Evangelism, Crusades, Inquisition

Evangelism, Crusades and Inquisition are three terms that come to us from Christian history

Devdutt Pattanaik

100 21.05.2017

Behind the scenes at the movies

If there is one thing that the Apurva Asrani-Kangana Ranaut conflict over the script of Hansal Mehta's new film Simran has shown us

Paromita Vohra

90 21.05.2017

Can you Beliebe this lip service?

After auctioning limbs to afford a ticket, 40K people were greeted by missing dustbins, filthy toilets and a literally out-of-sync Bieber

Lindsay Pereira

10 20.05.2017

Travelling with only the absolute

My biggest predicament when I have to travel longer than 2 weeks is how to fit the diverse fragments of thought nestled within my room

Rosalyn Dmello

4 19.05.2017

'$500 for extra Test or we go home'

While Smith & Co fight for a larger share of Cricket Australia's profits, many of them wouldn't have heard about a similar row in 1969-70

Clayton Murzello

10 18.05.2017

In the great scheme of things...

Cows act as speed breakers, terrorism has been checked, note ban has ended the unorganised job sector - all govt schemes are successes

Ranjona Banerji

30 17.05.2017

Why Vodka with Varma is so much fun

Is RGV the most entertaining man in Bollywood? Even now, yes he is

Mayank Shekhar

20 16.05.2017

Power-drunk insensitivity or stand-up comedy?

State BJP president Danves recent jabs and utterances have done more harm to the party than foster camaraderie

Dharmendra Jore

9 15.05.2017

Getting Jadhav off the death row

Our bankrupt Kashmir policy and muscular approach to Pakistan have yielded little, as the trial over an alleged spy's fate begins today

Aditya Sinha

10 15.05.2017

A lesson from Angkor

Onsite museums are as vital as the site itself. Cambodia's efforts in this direction can serve as apt lessons for our babus in Mumbai who continue...

Fiona Fernandez

6 15.05.2017

From a name to an opinion

A great way to engage in conversation with people is to ask them for the meaning of their name. For Indian names, at least, decoding these proper...

Devdutt Pattanaik

100 14.05.2017

JB in DY, RGV & AAP

So, it's been one of those weeks. Justin Bieber 'choppered' his way into the DY Patil stadium in Navi Mumbai. Armed with a Jacuzzi and many dancers

Rahul Da Cunha

10 14.05.2017

Yeh dil mango more

It is summer. Yaniki, there are mangoes. This should be enough. But not for all

Paromita Vohra

60 14.05.2017

Leap into the light

This week, a batch of students that I had mentored at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), had their convocation ceremony

Meenakshi Shedde

10 14.05.2017

Why do Indian men fear women?

Is it just sexual repression? What drives so many of us to seek refuge in video footage so dark, violent and disturbing as pornography?

Lindsay Pereira

10 13.05.2017

Your best travel companion is you

If you've never done it before, there has never been a better time to fly solo and revel in your own company and the joy of free will

Rosalyn Dmello

7 12.05.2017

Dishing out a quarter and more

Former 'A' division club cricketer Mobin Shaikh's 26 years of coaching at MCA summer camps is his way of giving back to the game

Clayton Murzello

10 11.05.2017

A vote against fascism & insularity

Traditional, professional politicians are increasingly being rejected by the voter - for politicians everywhere, this is a warning of sorts

Ranjona Banerji

10 10.05.2017

VR the world!

Would virtual reality be the future of films? Sooner or later, yes

Coming Soon

10 09.05.2017

Guarding city's fortresses

A recent plan announced by the state's tourism minister to save Mumbai's neglected forts needs to move beyond a piece of paper into a long-term...

Fiona Fernandez

10 08.05.2017

The Ugly Indian and his bloodlust

Indians are turning into a bloodthirsty lot, by calling for revenge-killings, supporting death penalties and wanting to tighten screws on Kashmir

Aditya Sinha

10 08.05.2017

Can Congress reap maha benefit from Maha restructuring?

As the Congress shuffles its set-up in Gujarat and Rajasthan, there are omens of similar restructuring in Maharashtra well before the state goes to...

Dharmendra Jore

10 08.05.2017

The king of Osho business

So, occasionally, I do photo walks through the bylanes of the city formerly known as Bombay, capturing aspects that were once regal, now a tad rundown

Rahul Da Cunha

80 07.05.2017

Cloudy at Cannes

A little student film about love and longing in the afternoon is holding up India's ijjat at Cannes this year

Meenakshi Shedde

40 07.05.2017

Eternal or progressing truths

In universities around the world, there is an implicit acceptance of teleology, that human culture is moving from the primitive to the refined,...

Devdutt Pattanaik

10 07.05.2017

A photo copy

Earlier this week, photographer Souvid Datta, who had shot a series of photographs in a brothel in Kolkata's red light district of Sonagachi, was...

Paromita Vohra

30 07.05.2017

A 'ground-breaking' government

Why is it that the more our government spends on awful beautification experiments, the worse our commute actually gets?

Lindsay Pereira

10 06.05.2017

Better alone than subservient

I could say my feminism often gets in the way of acting upon either love or lust, but it protects me from the insufficiencies of men

Rosalyn Dmello

10 05.05.2017

Newspaper Columnists

Did the cell phone kill the movie star?

Mayank Shekhar

A date for Bombay

Fiona Fernandez

How much will the loan waiver help farmers?

Dharmendra Jore

There is no longer a middle ground

Aditya Sinha

How Sanskrit evolved in India

Devdutt Pattanaik

Tubelight - desperate measures

Meenakshi Shedde

High five for Heritage Mile

Meher Marfatia

Are you 55 running?

Rahul Da Cunha

Bleeding adulthood

Paromita Vohra

No beacon of hope in politics

Lindsay Pereira

A city of desire among ruins

Rosalyn Dmello

The buck should stop with BCCI

Clayton Murzello

Sportsmanship applies to fans, too

Ranjona Banerji

What's Hasan got that Minhaj didn't?

Mayank Shekhar

Arun Jaitley for President

Aditya Sinha

Will Sena take the bull by the horns?

Dharmendra Jore

Who moved our gargoyle?

Fiona Fernandez

The laughter of women

Devdutt Pattanaik

Traditional currency

Paromita Vohra

Corporatised FTII Flashforward

Meenakshi Shedde

Hello, is it me you're looking for?

Rahul Da Cunha

The bulge in the middle India

Sumedha Raikar-Mhatre

A Rs 3,600-crore political stunt

Lindsay Pereira

Living the history of here

Rosalyn Dmello

India Leeds despite loss in 1967

Clayton Murzello

Still battling the 'demon'etisation

Ranjona Banerji

When you can sleep no more

Mayank Shekhar

It's not anti-national to insult Bapu?

Aditya Sinha

Sounds from a Metro

Fiona Fernandez

Pyaasa

Meenakshi Shedde

The pea-brahmachari

Devdutt Pattanaik

Masterchef, maitre d's and momos

Rahul Da Cunha

Grains of Song

Paromita Vohra

Monsoon is back and it's choking

Lindsay Pereira

Feasting on freedom in Berlin

Rosalyn Dmello

Passion must always stay in fashion

Clayton Murzello

Cultivation of mind is necessary

Ranjona Banerji