...the time when austerity was coming to an end
I remember 1960 as the time when austerity was coming to an end. Lakme had just started manufacturing cosmetics a few years back and my mother’s dressing table, which had always held just two bottles—Pond’s cold cream and Pond’s vanishing cream—suddenly started to fill up with moisturisers, mascara and lipsticks. We started looking less to the West for our aesthetics.
Taking wings: Fashionistas were young then
Naseer Ganai / In happy times and sad, Habba Khatun’s sensuous songs make both young and old emotional. With the never-ending conflict bringing tragedies to every doorstep, Habba’s lyrics of separation amplify their mourning.
Haima Deshpande / In India, only those relationships between a man and a woman are considered to be legitimate when there is a marriage between the two.
Jayanta Oinam / Virat Kohli, 33, had recently stepped down as India's T20I captain and was subsequently removed as the ODI captain.
Ashutosh Sharma / A Mahila Congress leader, who is the face of the ‘Ladki Hoon, Lad Sakti Hoon’ campaign, however, has accused the party of anti-women bias after she was denied a ticket.
1960:Dalit Politics 
1960: Samyukta Maharashtra 
