One Dharavi doesn’t make a Mumbai!
Sometime back, at a coffee shop in downtown Mumbai, I met a Swedish journalist visiting India. Space constraints and professional camaraderie got me down to sharing a table and a chat. She said she had...
View ArticleJust because you’re stronger, you don’t always win!
“The stupid dog bit me so I caught it, tied its legs to a stone and threw it into the sea,” said the taxi-driver, in his alcoholic stupor. I was left appalled. The man made that senseless quip to me...
View ArticleHappy Birthday, all you single women out there!
Once through with a modest dinner, she pulled out a neatly-packed chocolate cake she had purchased from a bag, placed it on top of the table, plunged a candle straight in it, lit it and then…blew it,...
View ArticleWe, the people!
Given a choice, man will commit a crime than do any good. I wish I were wrong, but simply can’t help feeling this way. In Tamil Nadu, just off late, a 41-year-old drunk vegetable vendor knocked at an...
View ArticleAll mothers are much the same!
Her voice had a rough texture to it, like the sort a nail makes when rubbed against sandpaper. She laboured with each word she spoke with an equally-sagging will. She struggled to cope with the...
View ArticleEvidence against Sree implies sexual activity or lack of it
There’s a deafening silence on the Sreesanth issue. After wild conjectures by the media and experts alike, from police sources too, the talk has been reduced to a predictable hush. A host of new names...
View ArticleFrisky trusted humans to death
Around the time, I found a ‘kidnapped’ Frisky at Cuffe Parade, a couple of kilometres away from his home at Third Pasta Lane in Colaba from where he had allegedly been whisked away by a resident...
View ArticleShed the cloak of secrecy on rape
“Why would anyone give an assignment of this sort to such a young girl even new to a city?” he said, prodding for more. “I’m sure the couple went there to make out. A lot of couples look for isolated...
View ArticleJustice should be done and 'seem' to be done!
“Do you think most editors are like this? Is it true that this kind of stuff goes on freely in the media?” asked a neighbour looking like she’d been sadly deprived of the nitty-gritty that had been...
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