Kavitha Iyer works as Associate Editor with The Indian Express, Mumbai.
June 14, 2005 03:26 IST
The complicated maths of their mandala pattern is not the Elephanta Caves’ foremost enigma. Because 6th century architects didn’t ...
April 19, 2005 02:41 IST
Maharashtra's chief moral policeman R R Patil may declare his intent to shut down 1,450 dance bars, but it would interest him to know that i...
February 10, 2005 00:36 IST
Call the fireman,’’ yelps Philippe Baufre (30), mimicking himself responding to a nasty spice-surprise at lunch during his first v...
December 19, 2004 00:00 IST
THEATRICS surrounded her even at birth—it took four years of laborious land reclamation before George Wittet’s design for the Gate...
October 10, 2004 01:41 IST
At 25, Anjali Nimbalkar’s six years as a sailor with the Sea Cadet Corps are hardly behind her and the politician’s patented entre...
September 15, 2004 01:29 IST
As if dozens of alert eyes are not enough, the gods follow your every step in Dagdi Chawl, home to don-turned-politician Arun Gulab Gawli. S...
July 04, 2004 00:00 IST
"Line gol hai."That’s what you call an electricity cut in Kamptee, says 22-year-old Jawahar Ali. No power means the bakery is shut. So,...
June 29, 2004 01:38 IST
He died at 35, starving for over a month at the feet of a statue of Babasaheb Ambedkar just metres away from the Thane Collector’s offi...
January 13, 2004 00:00 IST
The writing is on the wall—on the boundary walls of the sprawling ground that will host the World Social Forum kicking off on Friday. A...