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What The Woman In Worli Tells Us About Our Life
May 2, 2026, 8:21 AM IST
When I saw the video of the woman in Worli shouting at a minister, after a political rally trapped her in traffic, as she was trying to collect her child from school, I did not…
May 2, 2026, 8:21 AM IST
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‘It’s better to be alone than alone at parties’
February 7, 2026, 7:39 AM IST
As a young author, slightly well-known, I was invited to many parties. This was twenty years ago, when people still read novels and novelists were not yet nearing, as Pankaj Mishra once put it, ‘cultural…
February 7, 2026, 7:39 AM IST
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What does paying 35% tax get us?
January 31, 2026, 7:39 AM IST
Not clean air or water, not good roads or sanitation, not nice public hospitals. Sure, too few Indians are income tax payers. But an incompetent state does not offer them fair returns either I remember…
January 31, 2026, 7:39 AM IST
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‘I am childfree and the central character in my life story’
December 27, 2025, 9:05 AM IST
I recently met a family friend who told me he was estranged from his adult son. Things soured after the son’s marriage, he said, which led to separate homes and, ultimately, a permanent rupture. In…
December 27, 2025, 9:05 AM IST
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Who killed Goa? Not just Luthra bros
December 12, 2025, 7:53 AM IST
The night that Birch by Romeo Lane burned, the DJ was shouting over a crowd that did not yet know it was trapped in hell. Fireworks went off in a thatched, flammable structure. By dawn…
December 12, 2025, 7:53 AM IST
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Mumbai & secret sadness of Diwali
October 21, 2025, 8:25 AM IST
My parents stored our firecrackers in a bucket under their bed. This was in the early eighties – my siblings and I were in school – and the sly storage of sutli bombs and sparklers…
October 21, 2025, 8:25 AM IST
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Leaving Mumbai, learning Goa
October 11, 2025, 7:46 AM IST
In 2011, when I first moved to Moira, in north Goa, the phone range was so lousy that I’d have to walk to the end of my lane just to make a call. On the…
October 11, 2025, 7:46 AM IST
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Weed for those in need: Making a case for medical marijuana
February 9, 2020, 3:00 AM IST
‘She has two or three months,’ the vet said, ‘if she’s lucky. Lung cancer in dogs is usually fatal.’ Bruschetta, my dachshund, was so small of size, radiation and chemo were moot — the treatment…
February 9, 2020, 3:00 AM IST
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Young India is protesting, because it can no longer be thrown off by the politics of distraction
January 7, 2020, 5:00 AM IST
I sit on the committee of a housing society in north Mumbai where our principal activity is quarrel. One member took us to court for electoral procedure lapses; another was investigated for leasing out a…
January 7, 2020, 5:00 AM IST
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Make laws gender neutral: Men too can become victims of sexual offences as well as false accusations
September 26, 2019, 2:00 AM IST
She was a successful restaurateur, he worked as an architect, and among south Mumbai’s swish set they were a desired duo at any dinner table, radiating intelligence and sparring wit. When i travelled with them,…
September 26, 2019, 2:00 AM IST
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Bombs in Sri Lanka, shootings in America: Similar levels of violence, but a different take in travel advisories
August 13, 2019, 2:00 AM IST
When a series of bomb blasts ripped through Sri Lanka earlier this year, on April 21, my heart went out to the island and its people. Sri Lanka had bravely emerged through a long civil…
August 13, 2019, 2:00 AM IST
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The astonishing arrogance of Nirav Modi: He exhibited utter lack of remorse when caught out on a London street
April 6, 2019, 2:00 AM IST
Arrogance, when recognised, can be cautionary (while extreme arrogance remains a seducer of nemesis). A British journalist interrogated Nirav Modi on the streets of London for allegedly defrauding two billion dollars from India. Thinning hair…
April 6, 2019, 2:00 AM IST
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First they asked for a selfie: Why the vicious Fatehpur Sikri attack on two Swiss tourists made all our hearts skid
November 15, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
When i read about the two Swiss tourists viciously, and inexplicably, attacked in Uttar Pradesh, my heart skid. I imagined the young couple – Jeremy Clerc and Marie Droz – leaving their home in Lausanne…
November 15, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
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A genius for silence – Amitabh Bachchan at 75: What remains to be said after a life of so much experience
October 11, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
Jalsa, the legendary actor Amitabh Bachchan’s large, square, entirely dignified home, is in Juhu, north Bombay. I enjoy the ridiculous accident of being his neighbour. Proximity ensured acquaintance but thanks to his amiable wife, Jaya,…
October 11, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
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