Saturday, September 5, 1998
Reel rules aren't real
The weekly trade papers are always full of terror, the prospect of doom and total annihilation for the industry around the corner unless there is intervention from a god-like source. Death, an increase in taxes, the threat of an increase in taxes, too much piracy on cable TV, too.
Churchgate paves the way
It was a sense of shared problems which brought people together in the Nariman Point-Churchgate Citizens' Association (NPCCA). One problem was, of course, the morchas. Police were halting on J N Tata Road the ceaseless morchas going through Churchgate to Mantralaya.
Life in the De of Shobha: Some selective quotes
Shobha De's just released autobiography, Selective Memories, seems selected from the columns she has written over the years. But the resemblance goes only as far as the easy conversational style of writing, for the book is the story of how Mumbai created this celebrity writer.
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