Mumbai

Whose Mumbai Is It Anyway?

Haima Deshpande

Instead of settling the issue of who rules Mumbai, the recently concluded civic body elections have thrown the field wide open

Hypocrisy Over Housing

Haima Deshpande

Houses for former mill workers on mill land is a popular election issue. Why do politicians keep raising it even though the workers themselves have moved on?

Stealth Revolution

Shubhangi Swarup

Muslim women of Mumbai’s Bohra community are secretly joining hands to slough off an age-old tradition of female genital mutilation

The Manhole Cover Guide

Aastha Atray Banan

R Murali conducts a tour in Mumbai called Manhole and Other Covers

The Enemy Within

Haima Deshpande

Even with a pre-poll alliance, the Congress and NCP can’t stop bickering

A Murder Analysed, A City Revealed

Mohammed Hanif

Journalist Meenal Baghel manages to make a thrilling read of one of the most over-reported crimes of our times, widening its scope to offer a portrait

The Scramble for Credit

Haima Deshpande

In Mumbai everybody wants his own version of a new memorial for Ambedkar

Ishrat Jahan’s 2004 death has left her family in Mumbai without a sense of closure. Investigators have confirmed that she was murdered. But what she was doing on a highway in Gujarat with three shady characters, they have no idea