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  • 'Timepass' in the toilet

    'Timepass' in the toilet

    19-Oct-2014

    My favourite place in a multiplex theatre is the men’s toilet. No no, it’s not what you think

  • Thou shalt include the queer

    Thou shalt include the queer

    19-Oct-2014

    So the Pope, head of the Roman Catholic Church, has opened the conversation on being more accepting and inclusive of gay people and gay marriages

  • Clean India won't happen till it's forced

    Clean India won't happen till it's forced

    18-Oct-2014

    Last weekend I was in Ranchi, a small, uncluttered Chota Nagpur town that has transmogrified into the overpopulated, cluttered and noisy capital city of Jharkhand. Ranchi was and remains a one-street town-turned-city

  • Clear all hurdles before announcing new projects

    18-Oct-2014

    Whenever new infrastructure projects are announced, Mumbaikars are skeptical about dates of completion and many scoff cynically about the probability of a particular project ever being completed. The doubt comes with good reason

  • Grow up, India

    Grow up, India

    17-Oct-2014

    Who is Kailash Satyarthi? That is the question most Indians asked when he won the Nobel Peace prize along with Malala Yousafzai earlier this month

  • Make booths accessible for elderly, disabled

    17-Oct-2014

    With polling day over, the wait for the next Chief Minister (CM) of Maharashtra begins. Counting days are on and the result is expected on Sunday

  • When Modi made his moves in the US

    When Modi made his moves in the US

    16-Oct-2014

    There was more to Narendra Modi’s visit to the US than the razzmatazz of Madison Square Garden and Central Park

  • Getting inked should be non-negotiable

    16-Oct-2014

    We need to keep up concerted awareness drives and constant hardselling about the need to vote, as awareness is the first step to changing attitudes towards voting

  • Shaina spotting

    Shaina spotting

    16-Oct-2014

    'It's a bird, it's a plane, wait it's Shaina NC!' This could well have been the anthem that greeted the impassioned BJP leader, as various bystanders reported sightings of her from all over Mumbai yesterday, urging Mumbaikars to exercise their franchise

  • Realty factor

    15-Oct-2014

    We are a group of members in minority. The Society is going for redevelopment. In spite of bonafide submissions being made by us, the Managing Committee is not taking into consideration our submissions. Please advise what should be our line of action? 

  • Indian sport must have the right mentality

    15-Oct-2014

    It will be over-the-top to say that one player merely reading a book on the mental aspect of sports helped India beat Pakistan to a hockey gold medal at the recent Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea recently.

  • Focus on the causes, not recipients

    Focus on the causes, not recipients

    15-Oct-2014

    What was more exciting for India? That an Indian was a joint recipient of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize (with Pakistan) or the chance to use your politics to slam the winners and find as many reasons as possible to prove that these winners were unworthy?

  • A grand inauguration

    A grand inauguration

    15-Oct-2014

    A few days ago we had mentioned how the Ambani-run Reliance Foundation was leaving no stone unturned to make the Harkisandas Hospital in Girgaon, said to be one of Nita Ambani's dream projects, a world-class institution and one of the foremost in the city

  • Capturing the American mindspace

    Capturing the American mindspace

    14-Oct-2014

    The real clout of a country in foreign affairs doesn’t come from being able to check or pressure adversaries and buy friends through trade and aid. It comes from the ability to assimilate their interests into your own in such a way that you can shape their policy. Indeed, to go a step further, to get into their minds.

  • Embrace Gandhian values in everyday life

    14-Oct-2014

    Rahul David is not the misspelt name of a cricketer, nor is he a celebrity in any respect, except in the lives of those who come across him regularly in south Mumbai.

  • Another Mody rises?

    Another Mody rises?

    14-Oct-2014

    With his win of the Pune Derby on Sunday for the second time running when his horse Quasar rode off with the coveted cup, and following on the hooves of the success of his filly Nozipho in Kenya earlier this year, silver-maned gaming tycoon Jaydev Mody is on a winning streak

  • Religious electioneering must be curbed

    13-Oct-2014

    Belief in the ephemeral divine seems to have a clear edge over the faith in democracy, else political parties wouldn’t have made a beeline for temples, assorted mandals and samitis, promising their members the moon, sometimes even dangling promises of a pathway to heaven by voting for a particular candidate

  • Radio Gaga

    Radio Gaga

    13-Oct-2014

    Like most people, we too have become ardent listeners of Radio One’s offering of western pop, blues and rock

  • Modi's concerted bid to outshine Thackerays

    13-Oct-2014

    The talk of the Thackeray cousins coming together after the polls is unlikely to cut much ice, as the move has come quite late

  • City-scaping, for the better

    13-Oct-2014

    Recently, one had the good fortune of meeting one of the city’s most respected architects, Kamu Iyer