Arre O Sambha
When it hit theatres in 1975, it ran for five consecutive years in Mumbai. India's first curry Western, Sholay, was released at a time India was coming to grips with spiralling corruption, administrative confusion and political volatility.

Majestic though in ruin
Am I the only one to be reminded of Paradise Lost when looking at the situation in Uttar Pradesh? How a Kalyan Singh ``hurl'd headlong'' from the lofty heights of a Chief Minister's chair is now ``stirr'd up with envy and revenge'', ``majestic though in ruin''..

A reprint of history's cornerstones
Just a slice of 150 years in the life of Bombay: Much before the riots of December 1992, Bombay lived through a religious tumult in 1893.

  Fifteen years on, the silence of the grave