under Sohini Chattopadhyay

The Re-making of Agneepath

An argument with Hrithik Roshan, the monsoon cycle that set up the perfect backdrop for the climax, and other adventures on director Karan Malhotra’s sets

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18 Jan 2012 | BY Sohini Chattopadhyay
Kitchen Confidential

Having spent three months snooping around a restaurant, Sohini Chattopadhyay reveals why even great recipes sometimes don’t make it to the menu, the food service industry’s unforgiving hierarchy, and other secrets

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6 Jan 2012 | BY Sohini Chattopadhyay
The Day of the Pawn

Gobind Sharma runs a dhaba in Gurgaon. But when the clock strikes four, he becomes a master chess player

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11 Nov 2011 | BY Sohini Chattopadhyay
My Father, Nirad Chandra Chaudhuri

Photojournalist Dhruva N Chaudhuri recounts the delight his father took in his practised eccentricity

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25 Aug 2011 | BY Sohini Chattopadhyay
The New York Lessons

Siddhartha Deb on how the city refined his ‘inbuilt shit detector’ and made him a more honest writer

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18 Aug 2011 | BY Sohini Chattopadhyay
Gag Order

Censorship by any other name. Slap a defamation suit and leave it to our tardy legal system to ensure the offending material never gets out.

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28 Jul 2011 | BY Sohini Chattopadhyay
Diary of a Newly Thin Person

As a plump, accommodating teenager lost all her disfiguring weight, she discovered a preening, arrogant stranger in the mirror

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23 Jun 2011 | BY Sohini Chattopadhyay
The Tug of War Groupies

A sport that few take seriously also has some serious contestants

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23 Jun 2011 | BY Sohini Chattopadhyay
The Difficulty of Being a Green Spouse

­Sneaking wrappers in without his knowledge, missing him desperately during pregnancy because he wouldn’t take a flight, the carbon guilt of owning a Scooty, and other survival tales of an environmentalist’s wife

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1 Jun 2011 | BY Sohini Chattopadhyay
The Nehru You Never Knew

Journalist Sat Paul Sahni’s first book of photographs was published this year. An almirah full of slides still remains, as do despatches from four wars

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19 Apr 2011 | BY Sohini Chattopadhyay
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