Mumbai

Eunuchs -- India's Third Gender

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Jul 2002 06:09:11 +0000

Their face is their fortune. Caked in cheap rouge, kajal , powder and lipstick, they dress in ill-fitting blouses and colourful saris in a grotesque parody of womanhood as they roam the busy...

Body Art, Indian Style

Anonymous — Sat, 04 Sep 2004 13:46:51 +0000

* * * Starlets are reviving an ancient style statement in India, as youth in the land of nose and forehead markings embrace a new generation of body art with pierced belly-buttons and tattoos. "I love...

Celeste Goes to the Movies

Anonymous — Fri, 08 Oct 2004 23:23:13 +0000

Film Reviews by Celeste Heiter

Pico Polo

Anonymous — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 09:20:23 +0000

In the late 1980s, author Pico Iyer embarked on an Asian journey with the purpose of discovering to what extent Western - and especially American - culture had impinged on the cultures of the newly...

Dongri, Kamatipura, and the Thieves' Bazaar

Anonymous — Wed, 12 Feb 2003 19:37:43 +0000

Pronounced "Doan-gree" with a flapped 'r' closer to a 'd', Dongri is a primarily Muslim sector of downtown Bombay. It is also the site of the Diamond Jubilee High School for Girls (DJG), my former...

The Queen's Slip

Anonymous — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 02:22:18 +0000

Critics have argued that countries like Britain have solved their environmental problems in part by exporting their polluting industries and technologies to developing countries like India. The author looks at the Indian environment and environmentalism.

Bollywood's Line of Control

Anonymous — Thu, 20 Nov 2003 09:47:47 +0000

The 1999 Kargil conflict between India and Pakistan which claimed 1,000 lives is being brought to the big screen in a big-budget movie starring some of the most famous names in Bollywood. The...

Kipling's India

Anonymous — Sun, 03 Nov 2002 16:48:54 +0000

V.S. Naipaul has suggested that "nobody has written as accurately about Indians" as Rudyard Kipling, the first Englishman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. That the premier chronicler of Indians...

Kipling's Indian Stories

Anonymous — Sat, 02 Nov 2002 16:46:51 +0000

A boy born in Bombay is raised by two loving parents and an ayah , an Indian live-in baby-sitter. At night the ayah tells the boy stories drawn from Indian legend. He is precocious, and India's...

India's night schools

Anonymous — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 02:00:41 +0000

The schools, mainly owned and operated by religious organisations or community groups, operate six nights a week, typically in classrooms at state day schools, and have long relied on goodwill to survive...

Shopping Mumbai

Anonymous — Tue, 17 Jun 2003 05:24:50 +0000

Shops in Mumbai take in both ends of the market - and you can go home with luggages full of good bargains, if only you know where to look. There are fabulous boutiques, department stores and...

Film Review: Monsoon Wedding

Anonymous — Thu, 26 Aug 2004 19:28:21 +0000

It's monsoon season in New Delhi, but the storm that's coming couldn't possibly have been predicted by the weatherman. Aditi Verma, a beautiful young production assistant at a local television...

Aamir Khan's '3 Idiots' becomes Bollywood's biggest grosser

Anonymous — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 04:26:24 +0000

No Bollywood film has crossed the four-million-dollar threshold before. "3 Idiots" has so far made 4.8 million dollars after opening in nearly 120 US theatres...

Varanasi: "God Is Here"

Anonymous — Thu, 05 Apr 2001 00:10:17 +0000

Travelling in India cannot be called a vacation. It is closer to a species of trauma, or a potent drug, best taken in small doses to build one's tolerance for it. You go to India, as one Indian writer...

Watson's Hotel, Mumbai

Anonymous — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:04:02 +0000

Watson's Hotel in Bombay. Mark Twain once stayed there, but it's now on the local municipal authority's "most dilapidated" list...