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Salman Rushdie, You Are A Fighter

As he struggles in hospital, I wonder why anyone, especially someone who was not even born when The Satanic Verses was published, would want to harm a 75-year-old man and a literary treasure,......

Restore Aatish Taseer's OCI card: Nobel winners to Modi

Over 260 prominent personalities including authors Nobel prize winners Margaret Atwood, Orhan Pamuk and John Coetzee on Thursday expressed concern over the alleged "targeting" of journalist Aatish......

'I have never wanted to distance myself from India'

'If you go to some of their homes, you won't notice anything Indian -- nowhere a little god, or the smell of spices in the kitchen.''Nothing in their dress, no trace of an accent.''Even the names......

Exclusive! An excerpt from Suketu Mehta's latest novella

'It was the first document he had seen that asked him about his past in such detail; it was the only interest this country (America) had shown in his origins, and it was most inconvenient. To get......

Tharoor and Pushkar: A Twitter tragedy

'From envy, heartburn and broken hearts to broken marriages, much damage has been done by unintended revelations in the social media. Suspicious partners bring out hidden relationships, which may......

Column: Rebuilding Mumbai for the 21st century

Mumbai does not need to be - de-congested - it needs to redeploy its eastern seaboard, writes Sanjeev Sanyal. Mumbai is by far India's financial and commercial capital. Given the success of......

Enough is enough: Nothing will change

So everyone said 'enough is enough'. First, they said it to the politicians. They said it in the media, and then to the media. Then they stopped saying it, and life is back to normal, or what......

Present tension

The millions of people of Indian origin living in North America and Europe face a conundrum this holiday season: what to take, or send home, to relatives in India? Thanks to India's increasingly......

Style bible Vogue comes to India

Connecting women with what is beautiful, educational and inspiring, Vogue, the fashion bible from the Cond Nast group of publications, will be available in India from Friday. Vogue India will be......

5 MUST-SEE Amitabh SUSPENSE Movies

Amitabh Bachchan will be seen in Rumy Jafry's thriller Chehre, which releases this week, and while the trailer looks good, this isn't the first time the actor has *thrilled* us! Subhash K Jha picks......

PIX: Neil Nitin Mukesh gets engaged

Neil Nitin Mukesh is all set to get married to Rukmini Sahay on February 9 and the festivities have begun! The celebrations started with the engagement on February 7 at the Radisson Blu Hotel......

10 MUST WATCH Movies, coming up!

Aseem Chhabra's recommendations for the Mumbai film festival. Writer Suketu Mehta loves to narrate a joke Shah Rukh Khan shared with him about the late filmmaker Mani Kaul. During the making of......

Review: Bombay Velvet is marred by weak storytelling

Bombay Velvet spends too much time on period details and loses focus, notes Aseem Chhabra. Towards the middle of Anurag Kashyap’s Bombay Velvet, Anushka Sharma’s Rosie Noronha stands on......

How Bombay Velvet got made!

'I kept telling Anurag, "I don't care about anything, I don't want any money. Just get the film made".' 'One day I called Anurag and someone else picked up the phone. He said, "Hello, Sir." I......

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