Sreesanth fixates on music Sunday, May 19, 2013,05:12:44 PM
It’s the travesty of life. The man who is cooling his heels in the cop house on charges of spot-fixing in IPL, who the nation feels has betrayed a billion fans for a few lakh rupees, once penned patriotic and motivational songs. Cricketer Sreesanth’s music band S36 (S for Sreesanth and 36 is his lucky ....
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Back to pavilionSunday, May 19, 2013,05:12:44 PM
When Sunil Sukhtankar started rehearsing for Natak Company’s latest offering Shivcharitra Ani Ek, which marks his theatrical comeback, he tried hard to remember the last time he had acted on stage. After digging deep into the abyss of his memory, he finally recalled — his last play was....
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Art on a budgetSunday, May 19, 2013,05:12:44 PM
Far removed from the world of Razas, Husains and the hammer going down on expensive art oeuvres, the less glamorous side of art has been given a charming catch phrase — affordable art. As the term goes, it means exactly what it says — reasonably priced, within your reach, inexpensive....
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Hong Kong DiarySunday, May 12, 2013,06:15:01 PM
Hong Kong could well be Mumbai’s twin. Both are cities of trade and finance, of sun-kissed mornings and seawashed shores, neon signage and non-stop traffic, street food and fine dining establishments, rotting underbelly and busy people. ....
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Toy Boy Thursday, May 09, 2013,12:39:52 AM
John Abraham had a gift for fellow biking enthusiast Sanjay Gupta that he would have been out of his mind to refuse. As expected, largesse of this magnitude has a reason — in this case, it was a thank you for the success of his latest film which Gupta had helmed....
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My pad!Sunday, May 05, 2013,10:13:46 AM
The concept of living solo in the city amongst the youth is stuck somewhere between gaining widespread acceptance, accompanied by some resistance, but that’s not stopping the upwardly mobile from exercising their coming of age independently. They aren’t necessarily ....
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With a little help from my friendsSunday, May 05, 2013,09:10:33 AM
The picture was taken 18 years ago, when I was on one of my first jobs as a music producer. Mehnaz, standing second from left, was recording her second album after her first song Miss India became insanely famous. She is flanked by my dearest friends, Dominique, who is now my wife, and Asif Ali Beg, theatre ....
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Don’t have a back-up planSunday, May 05, 2013,09:10:33 AM
We have been waiting for Ustad Amjad Ali Khan’s sons at a suburban hotel’s reception for a few hours, and Mirror readers Mugdha Pande and Meghnad Bose fret over whether they’re overdressed for the occasion. Nineteen-year-old Bose wears a cotton-silk printed blue kurta while....
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Sex on-the-goSunday, May 05, 2013,09:10:33 AM
After a freak fire in 2011 reduced the cubbyholes trading in electronic goods inside a Crawford Market shopping plaza to ashes, Junaid has gone alfresco. He sits on a stool by a chock-full street tinkering with mobile....
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Into the wildSunday, May 05, 2013,09:10:33 AM
Three hours from Mysore, Kabini has an abundant number of pristine camps overlooking two National Parks on its shores. With African tents and plush Victorian interiors, it takes you back 100 years to offer you the romance of the Raj within the heart of the man-animal conflict. ....
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Fiction of truthSunday, May 05, 2013,09:10:33 AM
Storytelling is a time-honoured skill that has been passed down over ages and pushing the art to new horizons is Nancy Katyal who throws in a nonlinear method by incorporating the science of telling fables. ....
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Talk of the townWednesday, May 01, 2013,08:44:06 AM
Before the heat gets the better of racing enthusiasts, CM Prithviraj Chavan dropped by at the Mahalaxmi Race Course on Sunday evening to watch the last race of the season - the Chief Minister’s Gold Cup. He watched the races from RWITC Chairman KN Dhunjibhoy’s lounge. In the lounge he was ....
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Talk of the townMonday, April 29, 2013,01:34:56 AM
Tulips may have been introduced to Kashmir very recently. But when has historical accuracy fettered the creative mind? So we were not surprised when actors from a recent interpretation of the Mahabharata flocked to the Tulip Garden in Srinagar to shoot for a special episode. Now that’s what we....
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Thank you for the musicSunday, April 28, 2013,06:49:16 PM
For nearly 50 years, Antonio Marin Montero has been taking blocks of spruce and shaping them into the body of a woman. His description of a guitar, not mine. We’re in his tiny workshop in Granada in southern Spain, talking about his life’s work — how to make wood sing. Guitars in various stages of....
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The talk of the townFriday, April 26, 2013,08:17:41 AM
On the outskirts of the city, we spotted someone with an unmistakeable swagger. Salman Khan put the bright summer sun to shame in his red sun glasses, casting a long (but affectionate) shadow on his brother Sohail, who kept a studied ....
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The talk of the town Thursday, April 25, 2013,08:53:10 AM
When Shabana Azmi made her way to the stage at the closing ceremony of National Students Film Festival at FTII on Wednesday, there’s was a brief moment of silence inspired by her ever poised and elegant personality....
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The talk of the townWednesday, April 24, 2013,08:52:52 AM
Here’s Sohail Khan looking smug, surrounded by a band of muscular young men when he had come to the city to attend a fitness event organised by a local guru. We wondered why he didn’t take his shirt off too and join the hunks for an Olympus pose! ....
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Voice WorshipSunday, April 21, 2013,08:39:06 AM
When Umesh Makhija’s customers open the women’s lingerie he manufactures at his Ahmedabad unit, the box’s printed inlays greet them with: Ae phoolon ki rani, bahaaron ki mallika, tera muskurana gazab ho gaya. Anyone who has associated with Makhija knows they will have to accept the ....
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How would you define medieval? How would you like to step back into time and see how people of ancient times lived in houses made of stone or mud? How would it be to suddenly come across a tribal chief with a huge dagger stuck in his waistband? How does it feel to ride a mule atop ....
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