Ukrainian dancers and Russian models aren’t new to Bombay, but there is a new breed of foreign girl in today’s Mumbai. Her work isn’t work at all. She is the highest paid unskilled labourer in the city, simply because she is a minority. These girls are paid
Emerging from a canopy, Catherine Middleton stooped to climb into her waiting Rolls Royce. Showcasing the best kept royal secret, she waved to thousands who had taken to the streets and to two billion T.V. viewers in her white lacy wedding gown. April 29, 2011: The royal wedding of
Golden brown, roasted to perfection, seasoned with salt. Yum. I feel like the perfect grilled pomfret after three days of living in the water at Gokarna. If you aren’t looking to get toasted, tanned, and slightly wrinkly, Gokarna is not for you. A tiny haven in Karnataka for those
Yes, this is A noon for wild men, wild thoughts, wild love. ---Hot Noon in Malabar, Kamala Das In my country, summer is the season of dreams. As the languid afternoon shudders to a halt just before it morphs into the sweltering heat of the grey evenings, time passes by
In Moazzamabad, Uttar Pradesh---a place that is too large to be a town and too backward to be a city---a young man stabs a police inspector and is beaten to death. The last words he speaks are, "My name is Jimmy the Terrorist." Journalists descend on the town,
With The Dark Knight Rises being confirmed to be the last of the Batman movie series directed by Christopher Nolan, we have to acknowledge that an entire generation of moviegoers will now have only one association with the Masked Vigilante of Gotham---Christian Bale’s character driving a hulk of a
Veteran indie rock band Pentagram’s first studio album We Are Not Listening, released in 1996, showcased the band’s alternative rock and metal influences, while their second studio album Up saw the band lean more towards electronica. Now, with their fourth album Bloodywood (2011), they seem to have struck
Down the Road is 28 vignettes of campus life, covering the Amazing Technicolor Life that school and college are invariably made out to be. You’ll find the heartaches, the high school cliques and bullies, the fresher fear, the senior snobs, the hopeless crushes on teachers, the larger-than-life fights, the
Most of you know Shaa'ir and Func's Monica Dogra as the poet and the performer, the musician with the moves; but have you met her as the runner, the chef, the seeker, the worker bee who’s passionate, hardworking, and driven? In conversation, the real Monica
The third edition of the annual Escape Festival of Art & Music takes place on the banks of Lake Naukuchiatal in Uttarakhand from May 20-22. This time around, the festival, organised by Potheads, features over 200 artists from across various disciplines, both emerging and established. Apart from a wide range