A City where everything is possible, especially the impossible . Where telephone bills make a person ill, Where a person cannot sleep without a pill. Where carbon-dioxide is more than oxygen, Where the road is considered to be a… Continue Reading →
Zindabad! Twenty years have passed since Bombay was rocked by the violent and horrifying days of Dec 92-Jan 93. That violence marked our city severely, and over the last twenty years, so have the processes of globalisation, neo-liberalisation, privatisation…. Continue Reading →
Bombay ki Kahani Mumbai ki Zubani Invitation for a Press Conference Dec 12, 2012, 3p.m. The Press Club, Mumbai To The Editor, Dear Madam/Sir, It is now 20 years since the violent and horrific… Continue Reading →
– ‘Ek dhakka aur do ” Toppled many of our smug assumptions Bachi Karkaria 06 December 2012,TOI It`s still called ‘December 6’. America’s ‘9/11’ hadn`t yet changed the way we label momentous events, so no one talks of ‘6/12’, but it… Continue Reading →
उसे चौराहे पर फाँसी दें ! बल्कि उसे उस चौराहे पर फाँसी दें जिस पर फ्लड लाईट लगाकर विधर्मी औरतों से बलात्कार किया गया गाजे-बाजे के साथ कैमरे और करतबों के साथ लोकतंत्र की जय बोलते हुए उसे उस पेड़… Continue Reading →
When going to the movies was an art As Regal cinema enters its 80th year, here’s a look at the ‘theatre of firsts’ Yoshita Sengupta , Mumbai Mirror , Oct 27, 2012 It was a regular school day back in… Continue Reading →
WHAT SHE WAS Another birthday in a locked room. Another birthday — the 39th — to not feel any sun on her body. Another birthday to be fed mush through a nose-tube and pass it out on the bed. Another… Continue Reading →
Dear Friends, Dec 2012-Jan 2013 marks twenty years of the shocking, violent, horrifying days of Dec 92-Jan 93. Those of us who were in this city in those days witnessed something that we probably could not even imagine. Those were… Continue Reading →
The Union of India is eager to embrace the great writer, whose 100th birthday falls on this week, as one of its own. But how would Manto have looked at India had he stayed on? By Garga Chatterjee 15 224 The left-wing… Continue Reading →
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