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We must embrace our common humanity

In unity, there is strength, even for smaller local issues like trying to get a representative to hear you, water, traffic, greening and parking...

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The Editorial

Stepping out of Kotha Factory!

Why does watching Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Heeramandi feel like work? Thankfully, it was work (for me)! A still from the period drama Heeramandi...

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Mayank Shekhar

Let’s inculcate a healthy respect for the sea... and authority

One cannot emphasise enough that water is so powerful, it can take you away in an instant. Strong swimmers, etc. do not stand a chance too...

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The Editorial

Aap bhagwan nahin, doctor hain

Corporate physicians have replaced that extinct, warm-hearted tribe known as family doctors for whom healing was a scientific but compassionate...

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C Y Gopinath

With potholes, prevention is better than quick-fix

The initiative includes levelling of all road junctions within BMC’s jurisdiction with a uniform asphalt layer, alongside the ongoing cement ...

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The Editorial

Who was and is Hindu Left

We speak of the Hindu Right, but not its opposite, which flourishes even though the mainstream discourse dismisses them as casteist or simply...

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Ajaz Ashraf

It’s really up to the people to save city’s green cover

The FOT stated that they wanted to find out where this axed tree had been dumped, who was behind this tree cutting and why it was done under the...

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The Editorial

Bas chakka

“I don’t know why they have bowlers anymore in T20 cricket!” Illustration/Uday Mohite Mid-way through the IPL 2024 season, a high-level...

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Rahul Da Cunha

Maximum City. Minimum bookstores

A recent bit of news from Japan came as a stark reminder for bibliophiles in our home city, of the glaring lack of support for the habit of reading...

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Fiona Fernandez

The maleness of Shiva

That is Shankara, who adores Uma, and Vishnu, who adores Lakshmi. Illustration/Devdutt Pattanaik A popular theme in Hindu mythology is the dance...

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Devdutt Pattanaik

More billionaires, please

The fact that Bombay now ranks third after New York and London, in terms of billionaires, is great news for everyone According to the list, the...

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Lindsay Pereira

Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Every slip counts in polling

Are the election authorities going to help voters by delivering voting slips to their doorsteps? A man waits in line with his voting slip to cast...

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Dharmendra Jore

Chalchitra Ekhon: Mrinal Sen tribute

This is a coming of age film, but not typically of an adolescent Illustration/Uday Mohite Anjan Dutt’s Chalchitra Ekhon (Kaleidoscope Now,...

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Meenakshi Shedde

Mumbai stories and other roses

As we quietly observe each other, we also reveal ourselves to each other, across crowded trains and tube-lit windows. Watcher and watched in one...

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Paromita Vohra

Happy hundredth, Daddy Cool

Celebrating the life and times of a parent who passed on five years short of a century of amazing grace At a concert finale in 1995 with violin...

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Meher Marfatia

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