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Roshni Nair

Roshni Nair

Roshni is a feature writer and Laadli awardee. She likes writing, loves animals, and hates talking about herself in third person.

Articles by Roshni Nair

They walk in beauty: A peek at India’s lesser-known pageants

Contestants in the Mr Bahadurgarh pageant, staged in the Haryana town of the same name, took off their shirts after much trepidation. Women participated strictly in Indian attire.

Updated on Sep 10, 2017 08:18 IST

#Bollywood: The Hindi family film is finally being honest about sex

A still from Shubh Mangal Saavdhan, starring Ayushmann Khurrana as a man battling erectile dysfunction.

Updated on Sep 3, 2017 10:49 IST

Meet the extreme SRK, Salman, Vijay, Ajith fans behind rabid tweets and hashtags

Special hashtags and coordinated online campaigns are favoured weapons when picking on film writers, critics and fans of rival stars.

Updated on Aug 21, 2017 12:46 IST

‘Indecent obsessions’: A peek into life as a kleptomaniac, compulsive liar

Updated on Aug 20, 2017 05:55 IST

In The End: This weekend, catch a tribute to Linkin Park

Anthracite, which started out as a cover band, will perform songs from six Linkin Park albums.

Updated on Jul 28, 2017 11:33 IST

Mumbai, exercise is good for getting fitter, but excess is bad

Updated on Aug 4, 2017 06:55 IST

All that jazz: Bringing the swinging Sixties back to Mumbai

Louiz Banks, India’s most prolific jazz musician, will perform at the Ziziland Jazz Festival.

Updated on Jul 8, 2017 02:54 IST

Where are you really from? An art show traces the history of migration

Mera Gaon, an installation on display as part of the ‘Mumbai Return: Journeys Beyond the City’ exhibition.

Updated on Jul 7, 2017 10:46 IST

Heard that song before? Meet some of India’s coolest tribute bands

As a rap rock, nu-metal outfit, Anthracite stands out from the bands that typically occupy the blues and pop space.

Updated on Jun 20, 2017 08:08 IST

Shalom, Bollywood: Resurrecting the Jewish heritage of Hindi cinema

David Abraham Cheulkar (centre), a Bene Israeli from Bombay, was one of the most recognisable character actors in Hindi films. He was best known for Boot Polish (1954) and Gol Maal (1979).

Updated on May 28, 2017 03:08 IST

I lived for two weeks in a rainforest in the Western Ghats. Here’s what it was like

No, that’s not an iStock image. That’s what we woke up to in Agumbe, every morning.

Updated on May 22, 2017 08:06 IST

YouTube sensation Penn Masala will perform in Mumbai on May 20

The band is made up of 11 University of Pennsylvania students and has performed for US President Barack Obama.

Updated on May 20, 2017 03:15 IST

Hoppipola? PapaCream? Why do some Mumbai eateries have such quirky names?

New eateries have been christened with names that stand out rather than blend in. The reasons range from the bizarre to the banal.

Updated on May 13, 2017 02:57 IST

The truth is out there: Tales from India’s UFO investigators

Updated on May 11, 2017 08:08 IST

Bogie men: Meet the foot soldiers of the Indian Railways

A track maintainer hammers the bolts on a fishplate along a track at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus in Mumbai.

Updated on Mar 18, 2017 16:09 IST

Going, going, gone…Christie’s backs out of live auctions in India

Tayeb Mehta's work being auctioned at a city hotel last year.

Updated on Mar 16, 2017 18:50 IST

Yale, Juilliard musicians to perform in Mumbai for the first time

Members of the New York-based Juilliard415, which will perform in the city on Thursday.

Updated on Mar 15, 2017 08:42 IST

SRK’s back in Darr 2, Kahaani’s Bob Biswas has a mom: How fans are rewriting film endings

Things you can expect to see in Bollywood fan fiction: Dostana ending in a wedding, Sallu and Katrina on the run again, Bob Biswas’s mom, a sequel to Darr, and the backstory of that girl on the train in ‘Chaiyya chaiyya’.

Updated on Mar 12, 2017 09:48 IST

Food for thought: Restaurant trends that need to go

Tofu carpaccio with a soya sauce drizzle and edible flowers, served on slate or stone.

Updated on Mar 4, 2017 03:43 IST

What are you doing on Valentine’s Day? Bet you can’t beat the mosquito

The Sarus Crane, mostly monogamous, trumpets, prances, and even yanks off vegetation in the air in a frenzied, lovesick display.

Updated on Feb 12, 2017 06:45 IST

HT Kala Ghoda Arts Festival: Experiencing music that transcends God, religion

inger-Songwriter Sonam Kalra prefroms with "The Sufi Gospel Project" during the Hindustan Times Kala Ghoda Arts festival 2017 at Cross Maidan, Churchgate on Sunday.

Updated on Feb 7, 2017 03:44 IST

Chances are, a child you know is using drugs...

A national survey in 2014 found that, of the 4,024 minors surveyed, 83.2% used tobacco, 67.7% consumed alcohol, 35.4% used cannabis and 34.7% were sniffing glue and correction fluid.

Updated on Jan 31, 2017 12:29 IST

New podcast to highlight India’s political issues

Amit Varma’s podcast, The Seen and The Unseen, aims at dissecting the unseen effect of India’s policies.

Updated on Jan 21, 2017 05:55 IST

A Brit is offering a guided walk through Indian history, via podcast

The History of India has had 58 episodes so far, and a rating of 4.5 stars on iTunes.

Updated on Jan 7, 2017 03:12 IST

Take the plunge: Bring in the new year with new adventure sports

Bubble soccer is like football, except each player’s torso is encased in an inflated zorb.

Updated on Dec 31, 2016 03:18 IST

Is your mason or mechanic a woman?

Young women training to be electricians test their skills at the government-run Industrial Training Institute for Girls in Thane.

Updated on Dec 18, 2016 06:07 IST

Cross border: Pak filmmaker, Indian actress swap places in new docu

’The context in which we know India and Pakistan is always conflict and divide. We specifically wanted to look away from that and see the two countries just as they are,’ says Kalki Koechlin, seen here with Sahiba Sumar.

Updated on Dec 11, 2016 04:20 IST

Chances are, a child you know is using drugs...

Updated on Apr 11, 2019 08:13 IST

Mumbai’s filmi daredevils with a cross-border history

Raees Baluch with Katrina Kaif during a stunt shoot for Ek Tha Tiger, 2012.

Updated on Dec 3, 2016 17:32 IST

Full steam ahead: Meet vapers so passionate, they’ve set up vaping clubs

Rahul Jathar, Niteen Thansalkar, Jay Kapadia and Vishal Jathar at a Mumbai vape club meet. Members travel miles to exchange notes and share discoveries. ‘I’d come even if there was just one other person,’ Kapadia says.

Updated on Dec 3, 2016 03:39 IST

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