I’m sitting in a shared Scorpio heading from Mumbai to Pune, at 8 a.m. on a Sunday, with five people my age calling themselves the Khandala Beer Drinkers Association (K.B.A.). I’m accompanying them on their trip to India’s first ever Beer Olympics, being held
No Nasties is a young t-shirt company from Bombay that aims to promote awareness about fair trade, organic products, and sustainable business practices in India. Started by Diti and Apu, the company is contributing to better living conditions for farmers in India through their line of fresh and quirky designer
Richard Melville Hall, better known by his stage name Moby, has been a prominent and important artist in the electronica and dance genres for many years now. In 1999, he gave us Play, which, with its 10 million sold copies, became the best-selling electronic album of all time, and also
“You want to do whaaat???!!”Write a novel. Now calm the eff down. Ever wonder how it would be to take a hiatus from life to follow that one niggling dream that dances on the edge of your consciousness day-in and day-out? I do. All the time. And, being an
Madhuri Banerjee's bestselling debut novel Losing My Virginity and Other Dumb Ideas traces the journey of Kaveri---a 30-year-old virgin---as she struggles to find her calling in a land where love holds no value and where lust reigns supreme. The author took some time out to talk to us
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,