Outlook - December 11, 2024

In this issue

Mumbai - New Delhi - Mumbai

SWAGGER VS SASS
A glamorous show reignites the Delhi-Mumbai debate. Who wins?

LUTYENS’ COMPLEX
Mumbai is all of a piece in its colonial and postcolonial modernity, whereas Delhi’s modernity, such as it is, is at odds with its medieval past.

The Lush Socialite

After her debut in Fabulous Lives Vs Bollywood Wives, Delhi's Shalini Passi-philanthropist, influencer, Bollywood celebrity and self-care divawho gives little boxes of herbal dust to her friends, is now in the mass eye. Fair or unfair, deal with her

7 mins

Swagger Vs Sass

A glamorous show reignites the Delhi-Mumbai debate. Who wins?

7 mins

Lutyens' Complex

CLIMATE change will likely make the Delhi-Mumbai comparison moot because one will burn and the other will drown. For millions of working people in these two cities, the treadmill of making ends meet, making rent and making it to work on time, makes competing claims to cosmopolitanism feel like nakhra, the narcissism of an English-speaking middle class with time to spare and points to score.

7 mins

Vertical Limit

You lose your city if you refuse to venture into the unfamiliar to find the familiar

6 mins

Circular/Narrow

Delhi is class. Mumbai is cool. But which one is better? The debate continues

5 mins

Clothing Codes

The language of clothing is the shorthand of a city. In Mumbai, practicality has always been the dress code

4 mins

My Name is Delhi

VISITORS have been coming to meet me from eternity, even when I didn’t have a name. There are so many secrets that hide in my bosom, though some have been uncovered.

6 mins

Dramatis Personae

Comparing an actor's struggles in Delhi and Mumbai maps out the differing cultures of two disparate cities

5 mins

A Taste of History

A delectable food walk in Old Delhi uncovers layers of history

8 mins

Cost of Living, Price of Loving

In Mumbai's Kamathipura, the business of sex fails to keep up with the profits of real estate

3 mins

Walking Through the Homes

Chandni Chowk is being usurped by a redevelopment model that will wipe out its unique blend of history, culture and commerce

2 mins

Verses of Witnessing

The most imaginative chronicles of Mumbai's \"spirit\" come to us from the city's poets

8 mins

Love in Bombay

In a city continuously grappling for space, lovers have found their own pockets of expression jostling against one another

1 min

Unscripted Moments

Street photography is all about finding the extraordinary in the ordinary, one candid moment at a time

2 mins

Sambhal Files

An engineered silence weighs heavily on the stillness of the empty streets in the centuries-old town of Sambhal, Uttar Pradesh, where clashes with police over yet another 'mandir-masjid' dispute led to the deaths of local Muslim men

6 mins

A State of Difference

What is about the Adivasis of Jharkhand that prevents the saffron lotus from blooming or even taking root, unlike in the Adivasi-majority seats of Chhattisgarh and Odisha where the BJP did exceedingly well in the past few years?

5 mins

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