Illustrated Weekly of India Diwali cover (Oct 28. 1962) – Updated

R K Laxman on the Illustrated Weekly of India (Jan 29-Feb 4, 1989)

(since he’s been in the news this is a good time to bring this up!)

Parveen Babi on the Illustrated Weekly of India (Jan 29 – Feb 4, 1984)

Rekha on the Illustrated Weekly of India (Oct 23-29, 1983)

Guru Dutt on the Illustrated Weekly of India (Nov 27 – Dec 3, 1983)

Dimple on the Illustrated Weekly of India (Sep 21-27, 86)

A bitter-sweet movie cover from the Illustrated Weekly of India (June 10-16, ’90)

The Mahatma on the Illustrated Weekly of India (Jan ’31, ’65)

The Illustrated Weekly of India — July 4, 1948 (R K Laxman on Bombay rains)

Madhuri on the Illustrated Weekly of India (Feb 5-11, ’89)

The Jazz Age of Bombay

Kashyap says that BV is dedicated to Lorna Cordeiro.. LINK You couldn’t miss the poster as you sauntered down Jamshetji Tata Road in downtown Bombay. It hung outside the Astoria Hotel, across the street from the octagonal Art Deco turret of Eros cinema, inviting the city to Chris and Lorna’s daily shows at the Venice […]

Malayalam writer Kamala Das passes away

LINK A writer who shocked the custodians of conventional values, Kamala Surayya Das has been a dissenting but poignant voice of wounded womanhood against the value systems of a male-dominated society.