Diwali

Mumbai Notebook

Anil Dharker

A festival of chemicals

Blowing Cold and Cold

Madhavankutty Pillai

It’s the season to complain about air pollution but at your own peril

Hindi cinema: The Aesthetics of Excess

Rachel Dwyer

It’s glorious to be rich in Hindi cinema

Badshah of Bad Taste

Sudha G Tilak

SRK’s big Diwali release is a damp cracker, and an offensive one at that

Not Really Diwali-cious

Ajit Duara

Traditionally, Diwali releases are box office crackers. Think DDLJ or Om Shanti Om. But don’t get your hopes up this year

10,000 Blinds and Bluffing

Isha Singh Sawhney

Inside a chi-chi Diwali gambling party

Hardly Diwali

Akshay Sawai

While we bring out the sweets and the crackers, these champion athletes are sweating it out at training and passing up the goodies with steely resolve

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Diwali

Mumbai Notebook

Blowing Cold and Cold

Hindi cinema: The Aesthetics of Excess

Badshah of Bad Taste

Not Really Diwali-cious

10,000 Blinds and Bluffing

Hardly Diwali

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