Shoot First, Mumble Later

A common morning story. A large Chevrolet is double parked in front of my building, leaving only one lane free for two-way traffic. A Mar...

MMRDA has earmarked over 37 crore rupees this year for the construction of sound barriers on flyovers. The idea was mooted in 2010, an...

Yesterday, at an event organised by the Godrej Culture Lab at Vikhroli, I had the pleasure of listening to a talk by Tadao Ando, one of the...

Words extracted from an article published by The National, an Emirati newspaper: "Standing outside the gleaming tower of the Maker Max...

I taught a module at Subhash Ghai's Whistling Woods International film school (WWI) during the first two and a half years of its existen...

Just days after I mentioned Bombay: The Cities Within as a landmark book, comes the news that Sharada Dwivedi, co-author of the volume alon...

Back in the late 1980s, I'd be stumped when asked to recommend one book that would provide an insight into Bombay's present and past...

Last month, two Bombay boys, Keenan Santos and Reuben Fernandes, were killed by a group of youths. It began when girls with Keenan and Reube...

The Jehangir Nicholson Galley opened last week, after a long delay, at the Prince of Wales Museum (which is now named after Shivaji like eve...

Have you ever had a cup of coffee served by the roadside in a plastic glass? The material is too thin to provide insulation, so you grip the...

There's plenty going on at the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival, with programmes covering music, dance, books, kids workshops, films and herita...

I just got back from a week in Delhi, and have lots to blog about. But first, I'd like to continue where I left off, with my Mumbai Boss...

My article in Mumbai Boss about the state of the National Gallery of Modern Art as part of a wider Bombay versus Delhi debate can be read he...

Here's what Digvijay Singh said in an interview with the Indian Express published on December 11, 2010: “On November 26, 2008, at 7 pm...

I travelled to he burbs yesterday after a break and saw two new shops had opened on the Bandra - Juhu stretch, accompanied by dozens of plac...

I've got lots of negative feedback for the Yahoo! column in which I suggested that military bases should gradually move out of big citie...

My column on Yahoo! this time asks whether military establishments should move out of metropolises. Read it here .

With the opening of a capacious new airport terminal, Delhi's taken another step towards becoming indisputably India's premier city....

The world's tallest residential building is here! Or so billboards around the city claim. The tower is called World One, is 117 storeys ...

I returned yesterday after a week spent in Zurich, which, for good reason, is regularly ranked as one of the world's best cities in qual...