The fashionable male was expecting doomsday but was left grappling.
16 December 2009Designing fashionwear once had a trusted mantra: befriend the trend. It worked for decades together. And then along came the zips.
16 December 2009India has the honour of being the subject of Lord Snowdon’s latest exhibition. But go back in time if you want to see his finest work yet.
15 December 2009She’s 45, he’s 30, it could have been a fun chick flick. You’re better off catching an old Zeta-Jones movie on DVD.
09 December 2009Man’s relationship with his facial hair has been fickle all through history. We work out the current fashionability quotient of this bit of human foliage.
18 November 2009Goa had the right idea about casino tourism until a series of killjoy measures came to spoil the party.
05 November 2009Indian fashion has gone all nerdy in its search for shapes and sexiness. Or, has it really?
28 October 2009Murders and bomb blasts, it seems, can do little to jolt this sunny state out of its complacency. Such is life here.
22 October 2009From the humble langot to G strings, funky trunks, boxers with Superman prints... male underwear in India has come a long way.
07 October 2009Trousers are getting shorter. So, is the next battle of the sexes going to be on hemlines?
15 September 2009Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of two award-winning books on water: Water, Peace, and War and Water: Asia’s New Battleground
MJ Akbar is the author of, among several titles, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. His latest book is Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns
TCA Raghavan is a former Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan and Singapore. His first book, Attendant Lords: Abdur Rahim and Bairam Khan: Courtiers and Poets in Mughal India, was awarded the Mohammad Habib Prize by the Indian History Congress. He is also the author of The People Next Door: The Curious History of India’s Relations with Pakistan and History Men: Jadunath Sarkar, G S Sardesai, Raghubir Sinh and Their Quest for India’s Past. His latest book is Circles of Freedom: Love, Friendship and Loyalty in the Indian National Struggle
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