Mumbai

Not India’s Fashion Capital for Nothing

Aastha Atray Banan

Why Mumbai will never catch up with Delhi

An Appointment with the Sexpert

Mahinder Watsa is a rage in Mumbai. Lemon drops for contraception or PVC-pipe penises, the 88-year-old doctor has answers for anything you ever wanted to know about sex but were too busy laughing to ask

The Leopard in My Backyard

Lhendup G Bhutia

Where close encounters with creatures of the wild are disturbingly common

Open Arms Suburb

Aastha Atray Banan

Come one, come all, chase your dreams. So says Andheri, Mumbai’s all-embracing northwestern suburb

Playing out Their Misery

Aanchal Bansal

A Mumbai-based NGO initiates Delhi slum kids to the magic of sports

Raj Stokes Police Fears

Haima Deshpande

The MNS chief talks of cops under threat and raises the spectre of Bangladeshi migration

The Voice of Bhendi Bazaar

Sharmeen Hakim

In the age of mobile phones, the tradition of a local announcer lives on in Mumbai’s Bhendi Bazaar

The Hockey Stick Cop

Jyoti Punwani

Does ACP Dhoble represent the worst in police brutality or is he a fine example of incorruptibility?

Curators of Cool

Aastha Atray Banan

The girls behind Brown Paper Bag, a lifestyle portal that Mumbai’s—and now even Delhi’s—swish set swears by

The Serial Killer Who Wasn’t

Lhendup G Bhutia

Ravindra Kantrole, accused of being Mumbai’s ‘Beer Man’ and acquitted in 2009 of serial murder, has opened a fast food stall while his lawyer has scripted a movie on his story