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Anand Patwardhan.

A battle won

The Mumbai High Court's directive to the Central Board of Film Certification to clear Anand Patwardhan's documentary film `War and Peace' throws up im

ANUPAMA KATAKAM,in Mumbai

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president and Home Minister Amit Shah.

BJP retired hurt in Maharashtra

The BJP loses the power game in Maharashtra in the face of rare opposition unity and critical judicial intervention.

Venkitesh Ramakrishnan ,Recently in Mumbai

Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis at road show for Bharatiya Janata Party candidates in Navi Mumbai on October 15.

Maharashtra Assembly election: Missing the wood for the trees

As the Maharashtra Assembly election approaches, the opposition seems to have played into the BJP’s hands: it is focussing on Prime Minister Narendra

Lyla Bavadam ,In Mumbai and Dahanu

Mumbai’s legendary dance bars can make a comeback

In August 2005, the Maharashtra government came down hard on Mumbai’s legendary dance bars and imposed a ban on women dancing for money in them. As a

Anupama Katakam in Mumbai and Tanveer Kaur in Delhi

Hospital nurses gather around the body of Aruna Shanbaug, as they pray for her, during her funeral, in Mumbai, India, Monday, May 18, 2015. Shanbaug, a Mumbai nurse who was in a vegetative state for 42 years after being sexually assaulted while working in a hospital has died, authorities said Monday. Aruna Shanbaug, 67, suffered severe brain damage when she was sodomized and strangled with a metal chain by a hospital worker in 1973. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)

Between life and death

The death of Aruna Shanbaug after 42 years in a comatose state brings into focus once again the issues of passive euthanasia, living wills, organ dona

ANUPAMA KATAKAM in Mumbai

(FILES) This undated handout picture from India's Reliance Industries shows a general view of a refinery at Jamnagar, some 400kms west of Ahmedabad. India's largest private sector firm Reliance Industries said March 2, 2009, that it would buy out its subsidiary to create a crude refining giant in the country's biggest-ever merger. The share-swap with Reliance Petroleum will produce the world's sixth-biggest refiner and signal 'a significant step in our goal to be among the world's largest global corporations,' said Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) chairman Mukesh Ambani. The merger will unlock 'significant operational and financial synergies' between RIL and Reliance Petroleum and marks the country's biggest ever such amalgamation, RIL said in a statement. AFP PHOTO/HO/RELIANCE INDUSTRIES - RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - GETTY OUT

Land conquests

With a compliant government in Gujarat, Reliance faced little hurdle in acquiring agricultural land for its Jamnagar SEZ, but its plan for a massive S

ANUPAMA KATAKAM in Mumbai

Silent machines

Industrial workers are fighting to keep their jobs and make ends meet as prices rise in the neoliberal set-up.

ANUPAMA KATAKAM in Mumbai & S. DORAIRAJ in Chennai

Shah Rukh Khan arrives for the screening of his film 'My Name is Khan' at the 60th Berlinale International Film Festival in Berlin on February 12.-THOMAS PETER/REUTERS

Cut to size

For most Mumbaikars, the release of the Shah Rukh Khan starrer My Name is Khan on its scheduled date of Friday, February 12, came as a surprise. Inure

LYLA BAVADAM in Mumbai

SHARON GALSURKAR (SECOND RIGHT) with ZAKA team members, cleaning up the Chabad house after the operation.-COURTESY: SHARON GALSURKAR

Chabad encounter

SHARON GALSURKAR knew Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife Rivka from the time the couple came to live in India six years ago. He is a community progr

LYLA BAVADAM in Mumbai

Political shake-out

Heads rolled in New Delhi and Maharashtra as the Congress scurried to retrieve lost ground.

VENKITESH RAMAKRISHNAN in New Delhi & LYLA BAVADAM in Mumbai

Freedom at stake

The Mumbai Police stops the screening of Sanjay Kaks film on Kashmir on the pretext that it could be provocative or inflammatory.

DIONNE BUNSHA in Mumbai

Silent partitions

The divisions caused by decades of communal strife are partly responsible for the terror in Mumbai.

ANUPAMA KATAKAM AND PRAVEEN SWAMI in Mumbai