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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......

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......

Guggenheim fellowships for 5 Indian Americans

Five Indian Americans are among 189 artists, scholars and scientists chosen for this year's Guggenheim fellowships for distinguished achievements in their fields. The Guggenheim Foundation, a New......

Indra Nooyi is India Abroad Person of the Year

Indra Nooyi, CEO and chairperson-designate of PepsiCo, the world's second largest beverages company, was chosen as the India Abroad Person of the Year 2006, on March 23 at a gala event held at the......

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......

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......

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......

An Evening with Mira Nair and Suketu Mehta

What is Mumbai's relation to New York? Well, that is what two of the most prominent Indo-American cultural figures -- director Mira Nair and author Suketu Mehta [Maximum City: Bombay Lost and......

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......

Danny Boyle eyes Maximum City

After gathering much appreciation and Oscars following the success of Slumdog Millionaire, director Danny Boyle is set to return to Mumbai for another film, it has emerged. According to reports,......

First Look: Vikram Chandra's Sacred Games

And so, after seven years, fans of author Vikram Chandra will finally have something new to keep them up in the early hours. Early copies of his latest novel Sacred Games have begun to trickle in.......

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......

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