Obviously it is necessary to resist the campaign of Hindutva elements for demolition of the tomb of Aurangzeb, the Mughal emperor. But by going to the other extreme of eulogising…
Some people seem to have a charmed life. Mariam Dossal is one of them. She is the author of a number of books on history, has had a good academic…
There was such a fine ambience on the lawns of the CVSM museum, formerly Prince of Wales museum in Colaba last week for the release of a book on India’s…
Soon after Prime Minister Modi inaugurated the 98th Marathi sahitya sammelan in New Delhi last week, the sammelan president Tara Bhawalkar delivered an eloquent speech stressing the importance of freedom…
Obviously, those in high places are responsible for the recent stampedes in Prayagraj and New Delhi. Pedestrians and commuters left to themselves can be fairly efficient actually in crowded places..…
Mahesh Elkunchwar, playwright, recalled at the Tata Literature festival in Mumbai last week his experience of being treated badly and addressed in Hindi as Saley tum Marathi (you bloody Marathi…
It is now 50 years since G.P. Deshpande wrote the pathbreaking play Udhwasta Dharmashala, a professor in JNU at the time,he took the cue from a report of the witch…
The Y.B. Chavan centre auditorium was filled to capacity at a meeting on September 24 in memory of Sitaram Yechury, general secretary of the Communist party of India Marxist, who…
Mr Bimal Patel, favourite architect of Prime Minister Modi, has come in for criticism for his grandiose projects which have caused considerable damage. Worse, one could say it is his…
It was good to see the documentary film Dharavi Ka Dada Kaun by Paranjoy Guha Thakurta , public spirited journalist and television personality , at the Press Club in Mumbai…
Shekhar Hattangadi is a senior journalist with experience in the U.S. and India, is also a film maker and he is proficient in law.. He has won a significant judgement…
Front page photographs in newspapers today of Prime Minister Modi standing alone in the middle of the sea bridge in Mumbai are quite ironic.The irony is that ordinary people will…
The current urban crisis is best reflected in two books in Hindi published in Mumbai recently. One is by Jitendra Bhatia, an IIT trained chemical engineer and prominent Hindi writer,…
Thoroughly enjoyed the play Karl Marx in Kalbadevi at a new theatre Veda Kunba in Andheri last evening. A rare combination of an intelligent look at history and the present…
How many of you watch news on TV ? The audience was asked from the dais in an auditorium on December 16. Not a single hand went up. This shows…
Everyone should feel deeply concerned over this report in the Times of India by Somit Sen today about the serious crisis in the BEST bus undertaking in Mumbai, its fleet…
The reading by Ratna Pathak Shah last evening from Sudha Bharadwaj’s book about days in the death row in jail, reminded me of a thrilling Marathi play Thank You Mr…
After listening carefully to a presentation made by MMRDA commissioner Sanjay Mukherjee last evening one would say that life will be getting much worse for common people in the coming…
Writing about exotic food, fancy restaurants is now the in thing. Even Abhijit Banerjee, the Nobel economics prize winning economist, wrote about his own cooking and eating out in the…
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