Hindol Sengupta's blog from IBNLive.com http://www.ibnlive.com/index.html Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:05:54 +0100 IBNLive.com http://www.ibnlive.com/pix/common/ibnlogo.jpg http://www.ibnlive.com/index.html Feed provided by IBNLive. http://www.ibnlive.com/blogs/hindolsengupta/104/50542/can-and-will-you-ever-care-about-fashion.html We all have an opinion on fashion. Usually its bad. Some say its tamasha, some vulgarity, some others think it is foolish to talk about fashion in a country that editor@ibnlive.com Sun, 16 Mar 2008 11:04:33 +0530 http://www.ibnlive.com/blogs/hindolsengupta/104/50535/the-hysteria-of-malfunctions.html For the last few minutes, the temperature at the Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week has suddenly soared. All around me reporters from Hindi channels are running around, mikes editor@ibnlive.com Fri, 14 Mar 2008 08:09:36 +0530 http://www.ibnlive.com/blogs/hindolsengupta/104/50528/it-doesnt-matter-what-brands-you-wear-anymore.html What really counts is how you wear them? How you mix and match them? From the time, 2004 I think, when Karl Lagerfeld designed clothes for Zara, fashion editor@ibnlive.com Thu, 13 Mar 2008 03:00:57 +0530 http://www.ibnlive.com/blogs/hindolsengupta/104/50525/do-you-wear-rohit-bal.html Most people who have heard the word designer in this country have also heard of a man called Rohit Bal. He is the man most often caught by the cameras editor@ibnlive.com Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:47:03 +0530 http://www.ibnlive.com/blogs/hindolsengupta/104/50522/finally-sensible-clothes.html This is a strange year for Indian fashion. This is perhaps the first year when we are, overall, seeing sensible clothes on the runway. Clothes that women and men wear editor@ibnlive.com Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:05:47 +0530 http://www.ibnlive.com/blogs/hindolsengupta/104/50515/faith-in-fashion.html This is my 10th fashion week. 10 times I have gone through this madness, this effervescent mania, this thing that everyone loves to hate. And yet, think about it, it's editor@ibnlive.com Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:36:01 +0530 http://www.ibnlive.com/blogs/hindolsengupta/104/3401/tv-2008.html It has been a year of abuse in news tv. Ask anyone you know who works at a news channel and, if they are honest, they will tell editor@ibnlive.com Thu, 27 Dec 2007 06:44:13 +0530 http://www.ibnlive.com/blogs/hindolsengupta/104/2604/whos-afraid-of-big-bazaar.html When I was 18, I never thought I would be sitting in a shopping trolley at 27. Who does? The UN? Sure. The first million by 25. But of course. editor@ibnlive.com Tue, 30 Oct 2007 12:25:09 +0530 http://www.ibnlive.com/blogs/hindolsengupta/104/2595/my-life-in-a-shopping-bag.html The hottest girl in Nashik is called Silky Chabbria. She is sigh-worthy like no other in Nashik. She wears only Reds jeans (handmade, European) and Chanel No 5. Chanel editor@ibnlive.com Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:50:14 +0530 http://www.ibnlive.com/blogs/hindolsengupta/104/2508/vlog-golden-ganpati.html A 17 ft Ganpati with a solid gold crown and a solid gold bracelets and solid gold... well, everything, and thousands of devotees lining up the streets of Parel in editor@ibnlive.com Sat, 15 Sep 2007 03:53:37 +0530 http://www.ibnlive.com/blogs/hindolsengupta/104/2506/rahul-dravid-and-the-view-from-the-park.html Rahul Dravid interrupts the meeting. And I was just reaching for the last cookie. Just when the boss was beginning to ask about work. Good ol' Dravid, right in the editor@ibnlive.com Fri, 14 Sep 2007 06:16:26 +0530 http://www.ibnlive.com/blogs/hindolsengupta/104/2488/pink-is-the-new-black-and-you.html I usually have to fight two battles. I get abused on behalf of the Indian fashion industry all the time. People think its silly, stupid, irritating and yuck and editor@ibnlive.com Sat, 08 Sep 2007 03:24:51 +0530 http://www.ibnlive.com/blogs/hindolsengupta/104/2487/what-fashion-world-means-when-it-says.html My woman is a global woman - No one buys my clothes, including my friends in GK 1 and GK 2 and those girls I met at my third cousin's editor@ibnlive.com Fri, 07 Sep 2007 07:25:22 +0530 http://www.ibnlive.com/blogs/hindolsengupta/104/2484/fashion-week-bitchy-review-1.html Let's rate them then, these big designers and their work. Remember of all the hundreds of people making clothes in this country, this is supposed to the platform of the editor@ibnlive.com Thu, 06 Sep 2007 08:56:32 +0530 http://www.ibnlive.com/blogs/hindolsengupta/104/2482/a-mad-model-and-the-fashionweek.html I'm tortured by a disease these days. I see mad models. I see them everywhere. Giggling over Red Bulls, sulking and skulking in corners, doing their three expressions editor@ibnlive.com Thu, 06 Sep 2007 07:09:33 +0530 http://www.ibnlive.com/blogs/hindolsengupta/104/2479/how-many-kisses-make-front-row.html 57. That's my kiss count today. Fifty seven - some glorious, some wet - muah, muahs is the price I pay for being front row. Of course, traditionally TV has editor@ibnlive.com Wed, 05 Sep 2007 09:25:46 +0530 http://www.ibnlive.com/blogs/hindolsengupta/104/2478/rajesh-pratap-singh-and-the-sound-of-silence.html I'm sitting in the front row, between Anaita (she of Dhoom fame) from Vogue and Kushal (he who is the best friend of that effervescent fashion stylist Ananda Khanna) from editor@ibnlive.com Wed, 05 Sep 2007 05:16:27 +0530 http://www.ibnlive.com/blogs/hindolsengupta/104/2476/how-fashion-is-like-politics.html As someone who reports on the various beats of city (Mumbai), crime (sometimes), poverty (my dear ol' Dharavi), festivals (dahi handi, Ganpati, even Valentines' Day), business (lifestyle, sometimes retail and editor@ibnlive.com Wed, 05 Sep 2007 02:28:57 +0530 http://www.ibnlive.com/blogs/hindolsengupta/104/2203/everyone-loves-a-bit-of-sanjay-dutt.html Everyone Loves A Bit Of Sanjay Dutt. Tomorrow morning breakfast at Candies. I know at least three reporters in various news channels in Mumbai who would be editor@ibnlive.com Mon, 30 Jul 2007 08:28:44 +0530 http://www.ibnlive.com/blogs/hindolsengupta/104/2172/mumbai-safe-city-l.html In Mumbai, you can stroll anywhere, at any time. In Mumbai, women are safe. In Mumbai, people are civilised, cultured - meaning really not like North India! Really? editor@ibnlive.com Tue, 24 Jul 2007 12:11:51 +0530 http://www.ibnlive.com/blogs/hindolsengupta/104/2149/what-if-i-killed-someone.html Taking a turn under the Lower Parel bridge, so close to office that I could, on a moment's notice, run in and do a live, I think of killing someone. editor@ibnlive.com Mon, 16 Jul 2007 01:24:46 +0530 http://www.ibnlive.com/blogs/hindolsengupta/104/1786/i-am-a-slumdweller.html My name is Chandan Das. I live in Venkatesh Chawl in the heart of Dharavi's south Indian district. I have a ration card saying I have lived here since 1994 editor@ibnlive.com Sat, 23 Jun 2007 10:42:19 +0530 http://www.ibnlive.com/blogs/hindolsengupta/104/1744/why-i-am-afraid-of-mayawati.html Mayawati's historic victory has left me speechless. And scared. Her victory tells me once again how I, and people like me, have no voice in Indian politics anymore. We, the editor@ibnlive.com Sun, 13 May 2007 07:02:02 +0530 http://www.ibnlive.com/blogs/hindolsengupta/104/1791/the-exotic-fundamentalist.html So she says, writers are like aphrodisiac. She says Mohsin Hamid says 'I don't sell exotica'. I think of Hamid writing in an essay: 'I found editor@ibnlive.com Tue, 08 May 2007 09:11:32 +0530 http://www.ibnlive.com/blogs/hindolsengupta/104/1382/when-they-fired-me-and-luxury.html A day before India's big luxury conference in Delhi, the PR person of designers Ashima and Leena Singh calls me. She says you will be fired. Now. Leena Singh will editor@ibnlive.com Sat, 31 Mar 2007 02:58:13 +0530 http://www.ibnlive.com/blogs/hindolsengupta/104/1376/poor-me-and-expensive-clothes.html After years of being bashed by my journalist colleagues for hanging out with the rich, the famous, and especially 'those designer types', I have finally entered the world of the editor@ibnlive.com Fri, 16 Mar 2007 10:30:11 +0530 http://www.ibnlive.com/blogs/hindolsengupta/104/325/liz-hurleys-marriage-in-berlin.html On one side, the girl with the startling blue eyes, who was earllier eyeing the guy with the freckles, is licking the ends of her straw hair, iPod firmly stuck editor@ibnlive.com Sat, 10 Mar 2007 12:38:40 +0530 http://www.ibnlive.com/blogs/hindolsengupta/104/1337/the-blue-shirt-of-sanjay-dutt.html In the last few months, I have spoken of the blue shirt more often than, well, more than the number of shirts I've ever worn. I have discussed it with editor@ibnlive.com Thu, 08 Feb 2007 02:35:31 +0530 http://www.ibnlive.com/blogs/hindolsengupta/104/1300/my-way-and-the-highway.html So, there's a penis. Hard. Made of wood. At Transport Nagar, they use it to show truckers how to wear condoms. Its simple, says the AIDS activist, the editor@ibnlive.com Sat, 06 Jan 2007 05:12:26 +0530 http://www.ibnlive.com/blogs/hindolsengupta/104/1228/delhi-in-a-few-dates.html So I am sleeping, the Jan Morris slipping out of my fingers like a Jan Morris idea of sexual identity. The phone, naturally, rings. She says I want to buy editor@ibnlive.com Tue, 17 Oct 2006 11:05:56 +0530 http://www.ibnlive.com/blogs/hindolsengupta/104/1183/fashion-week-lala-and-oh-dear.html I am loving the fashion week, I always do. Sometimes I get angry, sometimes happy, but never does it fail get a reaction. I went into the fashionweek this editor@ibnlive.com Mon, 04 Sep 2006 03:39:26 +0530 http://www.ibnlive.com/blogs/hindolsengupta/104/52/the-fword-today.html For one week now, I'll be saying the F-word, incessantly. It's going to be a week of fashion. And I'm determined that this season, it'll be me hurtling some f-words editor@ibnlive.com Wed, 30 Aug 2006 12:30:57 +0530 http://www.ibnlive.com/blogs/hindolsengupta/104/1175/fashion-what.html When I started writing on fashion, my mother was convinced I was gay. It has taken - let's say many an alliance - to convince her otherwise. When editor@ibnlive.com Sat, 26 Aug 2006 10:07:05 +0530 http://www.ibnlive.com/blogs/hindolsengupta/104/1161/omigosh-ostrich.html The ostrich is looking at me. I am looking at the ostrich. It's a tense, tense moment. I want to dig a hole, put my head in it and forget editor@ibnlive.com Tue, 08 Aug 2006 06:42:20 +0530 http://www.ibnlive.com/blogs/hindolsengupta/104/1148/roman-holiday-part-ii-kiss-the-hand.html ...do. It's the right thing to do. At least in Rome. It just looks so suave. Wonder why we don't do it in India? Anyway. So I'm meeting editor@ibnlive.com Tue, 25 Jul 2006 04:27:58 +0530 http://www.ibnlive.com/blogs/hindolsengupta/104/89/roman-holiday-part-1-beauty-is-what-beauty-does.html Right, so I'm sitting in this plane. Lauda Airlines and the pasty-faced stewardess is asking for money for food. 3 Euros for a 'homebaked muffin', 2 Euros for water (for editor@ibnlive.com Tue, 18 Jul 2006 01:08:37 +0530 http://www.ibnlive.com/blogs/hindolsengupta/104/1126/whos-afraid-of-a-bit-of-rain.html Not me. Catch a bit of raindrop scaring me! Ha! Rain in Mumbai are a bit like the songs of Leonard Cohen. Some grief, some sexy angst, some triumph editor@ibnlive.com Sat, 08 Jul 2006 02:44:50 +0530