Kavitha Iyer works as Associate Editor with The Indian Express, Mumbai.
September 13, 2009 23:59 IST
Salim Makani,the man who drove L.K. Advanis rath thrice,says the BJPs seniors have to come together again....
Sun, Sep 13, 2009August 02, 2009 04:05 IST
Outside the Mumbai Central prison on the busy Sane Guruji Marg,the show of strength is absolute. On half of the roads width thats blocked to traffic...
Sun, Aug 02, 2009June 09, 2009 23:55 IST
Just when it appeared that the long-delayed Dharavi Redevelopment Project was on track,it has hit another obstacle...
Tue, Jun 09, 2009May 18, 2009 03:59 IST
A bold architectural design is now ready for a new Dharavi,complete with pedestrian-only roads,elevated walk-ways with green zones and a huge plaza housing residential and commercial units as well as schools and community spaces.
Mon, May 18, 2009April 29, 2009 00:10 IST
Mumbai-South was a complex enough place to begin with - home to some of Indias richest and most famous...
Wed, Apr 29, 2009April 28, 2009 23:51 IST
Slumdog Millionaire number Jai Ho may have become the theme song for the Congress electioneering,but the theme of Dharavi as an election issue was sniffed out by the Shiv Sena as far back as 2007...
Tue, Apr 28, 2009April 25, 2009 23:27 IST
Her political pedigree didn't suffice to win her a ticket to contest as a Bharatiya Janata Party candidate in Mumbai,but Poonam Mahajan...
Sat, Apr 25, 2009April 21, 2009 14:27 IST
Who is Jaywant Awale? this is a question you hear frequently in Laturs urban street corners and its rural pockets.....
Tue, Apr 21, 2009April 20, 2009 22:58 IST
ACTOR,hau ka? asks a woman in Kavthala village,nearly 100 km from Latur,accessibly only by a perilous drive on a narrow.....
Mon, Apr 20, 2009April 20, 2009 22:54 IST
For BJP leader Gopinath Munde,the 45 degrees Celsius heat of Marathwada cannot be more scorching than the political skirmishes.....
Mon, Apr 20, 2009April 13, 2009 01:26 IST
A couple of years after Mumbais worst communal riots in 1992-1993...
Mon, Apr 13, 2009March 01, 2009 05:20 IST
From inspiring Slumdog Millionaire to putting Asias largest slum on the global tourist map,Dharavis industry and enterprise have spawned a million dreams.
Sun, Mar 01, 2009February 23, 2009 04:18 IST
On July 12,2006,a day after serial blasts aboard the suburban railway threw a shocked hush over Mumbai...
Mon, Feb 23, 2009February 08, 2009 03:23 IST
The sudden revival of interest among the Congress legislators to extend protection to encroachers who had set up their shanties before 2000...
Sun, Feb 08, 2009January 28, 2009 02:02 IST
Coming from a city where trains are lifelines,these suggestions on the railway project in Jammu & Kashmir are straight from the heart.
Wed, Jan 28, 2009January 21, 2009 12:04 IST
Slumdog millionaire's official India release may be three days away,but Dharavi on Tuesday underlined its position as a township with challenges and lessons to offer everyone from film-makers...
Wed, Jan 21, 2009April 29, 2006 04:37 IST
Pravin Mahajan’s wife Sarangi has told police that her husband is not mentally ill, but his behaviour “had been strange of late...
Sat, Apr 29, 2006February 27, 2006 01:34 IST
Hardselling the idea of a world-class Mumbai isn’t quite as elementary as it might appear. That’s why, when the Brihanmumbai Muni...
Mon, Feb 27, 2006January 26, 2006 01:58 IST
At 4,800 tonnes and with exhaust from engines generating 500 times your car’s horsepower, this hulk is an odd candidate for unobtrusive...
Thu, Jan 26, 2006January 18, 2006 00:55 IST
Even the lowest bidder for this 7.5-hectare plot had quoted well over twice the minimum reserve price quoted by the Mumbai Metropolitan Regi...
Wed, Jan 18, 2006October 13, 2005 01:46 IST
• It’s too early, the earthquake only occurred on Saturday.• When the Army is unable to work effectively, what can corporates...
Thu, Oct 13, 2005August 13, 2005 03:26 IST
A dozen neighbours dead in three days.That explains why this is Ground Zero, of an imagined epidemic but also of a very real fear, in Kherwa...
Sat, Aug 13, 2005August 08, 2005 02:10 IST
Remember Amitabh Bachchan sloshing through a maze of stone drains after scoring a kill in Aakhri Raasta? It was a film set, but in the Briha...
Mon, Aug 08, 2005July 02, 2005 02:10 IST
Before her twentieth birthday, Priya Dutt had already begun a political journey that reached a milestone on Friday.It was in mid-1987 that P...
Sat, Jul 02, 2005June 18, 2005 01:45 IST
From Ganesha to Gandhi. You may think that India has come a long way. Think again. It is not the debate between tradition and modernity. It&...
Sat, Jun 18, 2005