India Inc to India Stink
Poverty has hit pay-dirt, earlier at the Booker awards, and now at Beverley Hills.
View ArticleChoos your shoes
The expression, 'from head to foot' should be reversed considering the frequency with which shoes are being hurled at heads of state.
View ArticleThe laid-off heart
Yes, the heart has its reasons for militating against its broken monopoly. Perhaps it needs to find a similar group to help win back its long-held February 14 franchise.
View ArticleLend a shoulder, SRK
The media has stepped into the role of the conventional classroom, teaching us everything we never wanted to learn about every current hiccup in the VIP body.
View ArticleSlum like it hot
Did Mumbai's socialites discover zopadpattis via Danny Boyle in the way that they had suddenly discovered street children after Salaam Bombay?
View ArticlePolltry eggs, broken
The BJD-BJP divorce and the RJD-Congress tiff has overturned the general belief that marriages which have successfully hurdled the seven-year-itch can be taken for granted.
View ArticleFathers as fiends
Every daughter who has snuggled into her father, charmed him into submission, had him indulge her every whim to her own delight and her mother's disapproval, must surely have followed this story in...
View ArticleMeera and the Gopi
Much has been made of 26/11 which AK 47-ed Mumbai's political apathy, and statedly triggered Ms Sanyal's decision. But I wouldn't use this argument because it only worsens the tired charges of elitism.
View ArticleThe perfect candidate
Now, at a time when the elections are the OCD of every Indian male/female/transgender/none of the above, the only thing to go in search of is the Perfect Candidate.
View ArticleGaribi Hatao-ed
Imelda Marcos once pronounced that she had to live so extravagantly 'because the poor need to look up from their slums and see a star'.
View ArticlePrime ministerial tension
The subject of anxiety is the out-of-control number of prime ministerial candidates. Prematurely, even those for 2014 have come into the fray.
View ArticleThe wild party
If politicians are party-hopping like there was no tomorrow, it's because they could be right. Seducer and seducee are jumping onto any bedfellow with shocking alacrity.
View ArticleThe hand of God
What did the Gandhis do when they finally found themselves alone that Stupendous Saturday?
View ArticleRailways and rant ways
Mamata Banerjee had already rolled out her bedding, and settled comfortably into her berth while many of her colleagues were still anxiously perusing the wait list, or pushing their way into the...
View ArticleShiney saga: Rape as national entertainment
Mumbai should slap an entertainment tax surcharge on the rest of India. Whether from box office or botox office, its celebrities have been working overtime to serve an important social agenda.
View ArticleTemples of Boom
Mumbai opened its pioneering sea link the day Judge Liberhan closed his inquiry into the Babri masjid's demolition.
View ArticleYou NREGA, You FBT
Listening to Pronab Babu, i wasn't able to make out if i'd be richer/poorer/neither. I was too busy trying to figure out all those groups of initials which kept streaming across the ticker.
View ArticleHellelujah, It's Straining Men
There seems to be no end to the self-flagellation of men. It is so persistent that that we may have to replace 'masochism' with 'manochism'.
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