August 2009 - Posts - Still single in the city

August 2009 - Posts

The Shah Rukh Khan affair at Newark

Posted by Sushmita Bose at 
I have mixed feelings about Shah Rukh Khan being ‘grilled' by immigration officials at Newark airport. We all know Americans are a paranoid lot, and don't have the chalta hain attitude we do. It's probably more a good thing than bad -- from their point of view. Post 9/11, terrorism has not raised its ugly head again in the US: the chief...

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Friends and family

Posted by Sushmita Bose at 
On Friday evening, I went out for dinner with a friend who I met after exactly 10 years. I'd worked with him at my first workplace, in Calcutta. He moved to the Gulf in 1999; the next year, I moved to Delhi. That was that, I'd thought. (We hadn't even exchanged email IDS -- back then, emails used to be a tenuous connection and we totally...

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Whatever happened to Savita Bhabhi?

Posted by Sushmita Bose at 
I am proud to say that we ‘outed' Savita Bhabhi -- from her portal on to the Sunday newspaper. More than a year ago, when I was working for Hindustan Times , one of my team members -- who used to cover crime, intelligence and terror networks -- walked into my cabin looking a tad sheepish. "Er," he fumbled with a notebook (not the laptop...

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