Articles with tag: Mumbai
Targeted Taxi Drivers
Lokhi Menon Feb 5, 2008 interacts: 7Day passes and night creeps up over the city,
Suddenly the TV chatters “taxi drivers targeted in Mumbai”
Mumbai's Farida Khanum Fiasco
aakar patel Nov 2, 2007 interacts: 8Pakistani singer Farida Khanum sang in Mumbai on Friday night for the first time in her 72 years at a concert memorable also for being embarrassingly organised.
Marine Drive Makeover
Vidyadhar Date Apr 2, 2007 interacts: 3Marine Drive is Mumbai’s best known landmark. It has its own natural beauty. That is why there is need to pause and ask whether it is necessary to spend crores of rupees to dress it up further.
Village of Women
Leya Mathew Feb 1, 2007 interacts: 4Along the line of control in Kashmir, there is a village called Dard-nag. The hot springs here were famous for miraculous powers but even the healed complained that drinking of the waters gave them the unpleasant feeling of laughing when the heart was sad
When Locals in Locals lost their Lives - July 11, 2006
Sudeep Pagedar Jul 15, 2006 interacts: 20When you share a compartment in a Mumbai local train, you bond with the others in there.
A Nation of Eunuchs
Tushar Barot Jul 14, 2006 interacts: 188Another serial bomb blasts rocked Mumbai on 7/11 while the criminals behind the 1993 blasts are still at large.
Mumbai Rocked by Seven Bomb Blasts
Chowk Staff Jul 11, 2006 interacts: 638The Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh put India’s major cities on high alert and called an emergency meeting. Nobody has yet claimed responsibility for this dastardly act.
Fleshened Bones
Farzana Versey Aug 8, 2005 interacts: 34It was always love for me. Let me hold you in my arms, Sister, mother, fellow bitch, I won’t applaud you for your spirit
The Woman on the Tracks
Jawahara Saidullah Jul 8, 2005 interacts: 28Three wheels pass over her waist before the train stops.
In Conversation with a Dog
Sunil K Poolani Jul 5, 2005 interacts: 16The following conversation, with a dog and the writer, is not just imagination but fifty per cent real talk; twenty-five per cent fiction and the remaining twenty-five per cent based on circumstantial evidence.
The Instinct to Upgrade
Harish Nambiar Jun 21, 2005 interacts: 14The political empowerment of the backwards in these two states (Uttar Pardesh and Bihar) could not directly confront the social backwardness. These two states have the most feudal and caste ridden societies, but the political clout of the backwards have n
