APPU, JUMBO, elephant, mota, buffalo-these are just a few names by which huge or fat people are characterized and ridiculed. Naturally, few extra-large people wear their fat well or feel at ease while socializing. Now, things are about to change. Extra large people will soon have their own club in Bombay and be able to […]
TRIED OF the “corrupting” influence that the television has on your child? Feel sick of the vulgarity, violence and sleaze that many TV programmes project? And, ever been engulfed in violent rage and felt like destroying your TV set? “Please go ahead, destroy your evil TV set” would be the advise of thousands of residents […]
TILL LAST year, it was the dark, smoky bar that used to be the haunt of criminals in Mumbai. On the threshold of the new millennium, it’s the cyber café, call it Crime Café if you will. Cheats, swindlers, high-class call girls and even prostitutes are making a beeline for cyber cafes to conduct their […]
Fernandes becomes an eligible bachelor, courtesy cyber squatters “Hi! I am George Fernandes. I am currently single. So any good looking girls out there who are interested in someone who is cute, funny and likes socializing, then I am the guy for you. Contact me at fernandesgeorge@hotmail.com or at my homepage, www.georgefernandes.com”. No. It is […]
WANT TO make a fast buck in Mumbai? Kill rats. Yes, rats. Stung by the death of 30 persons of leptospirosis in and around Mumbai, the Brihan Mumbai Municipal Corporation has announced a scheme for public: Kill a rat and get paid Rs 5 for it. The only rider is that a minimum of five […]
DHO DALA Sachin is homeless, while Sehwag is planning to move on by starting his own business The World Cup debacle has hit the lookalikes of cricket stars very hard. Ketan Tanna on how some of them have gone broke after commercials and stage shows were suddenly cancelled It was his dream to […]
THE ASSASINS Members of the ATE gaming team are stars in the circuit In this weekly series, we portray incredible, desperate and even very sane groups. This week, Ketan Tanna travels to the parallel worlds of hardcore gamers The wars are raging. Across the country, from hundreds of homes and cafés, young boys, and […]
SMALL HELPING Members of the Obese No More club say cheese h e G a m e r s Ketan Tanna enters a society of seriously overweight people and finds that their hearts weigh the most They are hard to miss. As they walk down the lobby of a hospital in north Mumbai, strangers […]
HOLY COW The Longest Running Protest GANDHIGIRI Kishore Kumar and Suchitra Jhade say prayers at the gates of the Deonar abattoir For more than 25 years, every single day, a group of Gandhians has protested outside a slaughter house. Ketan Tanna reports Outside an abattoir in Mumbai, a truck arrives carrying cattle for slaughter. […]
More sex please, we’re seniors Older Indians are busy spicing up their sex lives, discovers Ketan Tanna There’s a recent study on the sex life of older people in Sweden that surveyed over 1,500 septuagenarians. Its conclusion: the number of men and women continuing to have sexual intercourse into old age had increased from 52 […]