Mumbai bids adieu to its iconic red double-decker buses.
These 19th-century Victorian Gothic buildings lie to the east of the Oval Maidan in Mumbai.
Kamala Das was one of the finest and truest poets of her generation.
Rajesh Choudhury and world OK Dinghy champion Nitin Mongia dominated their respective categories in the Asian Sailing championships.
Until September 14, Vaidehi Ankolekar was a bus conductor on Mumbai's famed BEST buses. Now, she is known nationwide as the mother of India's latest cricketing hero. That Saturday, her son Atharva bowled India to the Asia Cup Under-19 title.
To tackle the resultant inflation, the Indira Gandhi government had imposed price controls on manufactured products, including soaps and vanaspati, in 1973.
Historian Stanley Wolpert, author of several books on India, passed into the ages recently. We remember Professor Wolpert with Rajeev Srinivasan's March 1997 interview published on the occasion of his controversial book on Jawaharlal Nehru.
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