Reminiscing: Abraham Thomas on ‘Pay Back Time’
This was, Pay Back Time, to all what Mummy did for us. So, I decided to embrace retirement after working for 26 years, writes our reader, Abraham Thomas. I commenced …
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Trincas and the Calcutta of the ’60s
The Summer of ’69 was not just a song – it was an entire musical experience for the band Savages, writes Prabhakar Mundkur Four weary young men alighted from the …
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The Soap of the Stars
Remarkable in a fast-changing world, Lux has maintained its USP for nearly 100 years, writes Prabhakar Mundkur When Helen Landsdowne Resor, the wife of Stanley Resor who ran the erstwhile …
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Utterly Butterly Iconic. The Magic of Amul’s Advertising
She’s a little girl of 54, and she will never age. The Amul mascot has gone beyond butter to become an indelible part of Indian life, writes Prabhakar Mundkur “Amul …
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Of Typewriters, Vinyls & Fountain Pens
Nagesh Alai casts a wry but loving lookback at the evolution of calling, writing and listening to music It’s the 13th September as I write this. It happens to be …
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The Tale of Two Shivaji Statues
Chattrapati Shahu Maharaj of Kolhapur proposes the idea of a Shivaji Memorial Hall in Pune After the Peshwas lost to the British at the Battle of Koregaon (just outside …
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