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Have you ever caught your partner two-timing? By the time you finish reading this, you'd be pretty certain you have. For the record, t...

She believes film reviews must be "short and to-the-point", because a reader "does not have so much time to read, ya!". ...

I miss Harry Potter. Not that I was dating him or something, but there was a time not many moons ago - when the I'd been reading the thi...

It’s not everyday that leggy, drop-dead gorgeous beauties dressed in Miss Universe costumes stand in a row, clap, sing, cheer and pose with ...

So many people have suggested that I shift closer to office. That I must stay in Mumbai, and not some remote corner of the far flung suburbs...

"Shoe kar, mere mann ko, kiya tu ne kya ishaara..." - P Chidambaram's humming this during potty hour The journalistic tribe ha...

This darned chicken pox has made me realize a lot of stuff, which along the way I never ended up noticing. Blame it on my routine job where ...

In the last couple of days, consumption of coffee, tea and water in DNA's Mumbai office has shot up. At the drop of a hat, one could see...

With a subtitle that says 'Fear has a new address', a viewer expected 13B to scare him to death. But then 13B is not your usual hor...

A friend recently pointed out that now-a-days having a conversation with me is becoming virtually impossible, because I keep asking most of ...

"On most occasions, what differentiates a good journalist from a bad one is news sense. What is breaking news for one may not even be n...

I have new neighbours. More, that's their surname. Its a Maharashtrian family. Just to clarify. They're not 'More' from the ...

10 years back, if you told someone you're traveling to Kashmir, they would have told you that it's a bad idea. But after the drama t...

Saw Dostana last evening to a packed house. And I still can't believe I watched a Karan Johar (KJ) film within its first weekend. In hi...

The daily commute in Mumbai’s local trains is also a great way of sensing the pulse of the masses. When it gets overcrowded and all you have...

I'm late for a family get-together. An old family friend has just relocated into our neighbourhood and by the time I join my uncle, Mr G...

A stand-up comedian once famously remarked that Hindi film screenplays never show heroes and heroines visiting the loo. My parents used to t...

10pm. I trot my way home through the rain-soaked street. A crowd has gathered near the neighboring building and an ambulance is parked next ...

She cares about me. And my cellphone. "Don't put it like that into your pocket. In all the rush and jostling within the train, some...

In what seems like a dream-run for the next generation of journalists - the so called beholders of India's democratic information ecosys...