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mid-day editorial: Man-animal conflicts won't wait for streetlights

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The public toilets constructed at Aarey Milk Colony by MP Sachin Tendulkar are helping the tribals staying there, but the lack of streetlights in the Mataipada area (which has one of the toilets), has increased the chances of a man-animal conflict
His big, cool friend

23-Jan-2017
Everyone needs a big, cool friend, and as these things go, Mukesh Ambani is certainly the biggest and coolest one to have in corporate circles
Meenakshi Shedde: Nobody looks any more

22-Jan-2017
I’ll never forget when Shah Rukh Khan had attended the Don 2 premiere at the Berlin Film Festival in 2010
Devdutt Pattanaik: Momaji & other horse-riders

22-Jan-2017
My friend told me of a ritual practice in some parts of rural Rajasthan. When the marriage party is passing a shrine of Momaji, people offer lamps (usually in a dry coconut), food (wheat) and other indulgences (beedi is common)
Paromita Vohra: Woh darzi hai kahan?

22-Jan-2017
Are you, like me, languishing and sighing, waiting for that one man (and sometimes woman) who will fulfill certain dreams for you?
Rahul da Cunha: Inclub Zindabad!

22-Jan-2017
So, in our political science class, we were taught about the various forms of government — oligarchies, kingdoms, republics and sultanates
Lindsay Pereira: Sticking to delusional promises

21-Jan-2017
Our politicians think we need access to Wi-Fi and selfie spots more than better roads, cleaner hospitals or a single decent public toilet
mid-day editorial: Don't let a 35-ft black hole gobble up lives

21-Jan-2017
High-rises are supposed to offer privileged existence, but residents of the upscale Ivory Towers in Juhu have been living in hell
Rosalyn D'Mello: A glimpse into the 'I' of an artist

20-Jan-2017
To know that one’s relationship with what one has created will always be in flux between one day and the next brings an sense of surrender
mid-day editorial: Give corporal punishment a permanent rap

20-Jan-2017
Corporal punishment may be outlawed, but that has never stopped students from becoming targets of shocking callousness
Peter Mukerjea finds unwavering support from Star colleagues

20-Jan-2017
Even as their former colleague, Peter Mukerjea faces what must be the most challenging periods of his life, word comes in of strong and unwavering support from a section of his former colleagues at Star
Clayton Murzello: India's big domestic problem

19-Jan-2017
Staging Ranji Trophy on neutral venues made it a farce as players had to parade their skills on unfamiliar turf, in front of sparse crowds
mid-day editorial: Strike off moral policing from the syllabus

19-Jan-2017
The moral police have struck again and this time around, the dispute has erupted within the corridors of academia, at SNDT Women’s University (Churchgate)
Isabella Rossellini sports fashion designer Sonam Dubal's design

19-Jan-2017
Word comes in, that no less than Isabella Rossellini, the Italian-American actress, filmmaker, author, and long-time face of Lancome, has been sporting the exquisite hand made coats and capes of Delhi-based fashion designer Sonam Dubal
Ranjona Banerji: When you run out of cash and hope

18-Jan-2017
In these times of demonetisation, if you have an ailing family member, you can either nurse the patient or go stand in ATM queues
mid-day editorial: World's not a dangal, leave Zaira alone

18-Jan-2017
It is a jungle, err... dangal out there, and you need to survive. Zaira Wasim learnt this the hard way, both in her reel as well as real life
Boys will be boys

18-Jan-2017
In our reading, the finest comment on the recent arm wrestle between two of the modern world's most celebrated artists, the India born, UK-based Anish Kapoor, and UK's Stuart Semple who have been squabbling over the provenance of two colours, which happen to be known as the blackest of black and the pinkest of pink, was by Mumbai-based fellow artist, the lovely Kahini Arte Merchant
Mayank Shekhar: Is coke becoming the new beer?

17-Jan-2017
Is it pricing or pop-culture that the powder, once the drug of choice for rich or famous, is now just the most regular thing at house parties
mid-day editorial: Clear the ambiguity about service charges

17-Jan-2017
Of late, hotels and restaurants have found themselves at the centre of an imbroglio with the dominating question being to pay or not to pay service charge
Music to my ears

17-Jan-2017
Let it not be said that we suffer from a dearth of music fests. Not one, but two festivals are going to take place, both in Rajasthan, and both fronted by two formidable cultural czarinas