Category Archives: Mumbai / Bombay

Rage machines

Posted on March 18, 2012 by

Last Sunday, Mayur Aggarwal, a 25-year-old businessman, rammed his Swift three times into Amit Valinjkar’s Honda City. It was, apparently, a case of road rage. Valinjkar was with his wife, two-year-old son and parents. Aggarwal was with his father and … Continue reading →

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Apla Frederick

Posted on April 2, 2011 by

This is a rather dated post. Nevertheless…A curious and pleasantly eccentric event occurred on March 3. Members of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena marked the hundred and eleventh death anniversary of Frederick William Stevens, the architect of the Victoria Terminus. (Now … Continue reading →

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Choo mantar

Posted on March 24, 2011 by

Jimmy Choo is going to be in town tomorrow (March 24). Not to open a new outlet, but, oddly enough, to address school children. Now Choo has led a life that makes a fairly inspiring story. Born in Malaysia, he … Continue reading →

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Head start

Posted on November 18, 2010 by

I attended the inauguration of a traveling photography exhibition at the Bhau Daji Lad Museum yesterday. ‘Something that I’ll never really see’ is a set of 40 images from the permanent collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. … Continue reading →

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Rohinton Mistry’s (part) statement

Posted on October 19, 2010 by

Rohinton Mistry finally responded to the withdrawal of Such a Long Journey from the SYBA syllabus with this statement. It was read out by Anand Patwardhan at a protest meeting at the Press Club on October 18. “The Shiv Sena’s … Continue reading →

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Head hunting

Posted on July 8, 2010 by

Yesterday, the Bombay edition of Hindustan Times ran a story on how deserted the Sessions Court was on Monday, the day the opposition called for a bandh to oppose the rise of prices of commodities. Some theatre-loving sub-editor, who either … Continue reading →

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See See TV

Posted on July 3, 2010 by

On June 24, Mumbai Mirror reported that Bandra Bandstand’s ALM had installed a CCTV camera on a building facing the seafront. The idea was to monitor unpleasant activities such as theft and indecent behaviour. Like most seafronts in the city, … Continue reading →

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Mind your p’s and q’s

Posted on May 14, 2010 by

There are many reasons not to visit T.G.I. Friday’s. The kitschy, cheesier-than-fondue interiors. The faux cowboy outfits the waiters have to wear. The flavourless food, most of which is crumb-fried. What seals its case, is the misplaced apostrophe. If you’re … Continue reading →

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Kasab

Posted on May 13, 2010 by

The blitzkrieg of public reactions to Kasab’s death sentence seems to be a case of life imitating television. We’ve always been a society prone to impassioned hyperbole. But the hysteria generated by the electronic media on a daily basis seems … Continue reading →

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WTF ads

Posted on April 8, 2010 by

Watching a new commercial advertising Micromax mobile phones starring Akshay Kumar recently prompted a WTF moment. Kumar is a chef engrossed in a game of tennis that he’s playing on a laptop using his mobile phone that has “action sensor … Continue reading →

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