Author Archives: Bhavin Jankharia

Dying in Mumbai – Grace and Support

A death sets into motion a whirlpool that sucks everyone around into it. It helps postpone grieving for those who take up the immediate post-death responsibilities, and this often helps the others grieve in peace. It starts immediately. And while last week I wrote about how it might be better to die at home, post-death […]

October 18, 2014 – 2:48 pm | By Bhavin Jankharia | Posted in Dying in Mumbai, Mumbai Mirror Column | Comments (21)

Dying in Mumbai – The Care-Givers’ Hell

Dying in Mumbai This is a four-part series exploring death and dying in Mumbai   The Care-Givers’ Hell! People die all the time. While sudden deaths leave havoc in their wake, at the least, they are quick and “good” deaths. Many people though, linger at the edge of death. Ill and diseased with multi-organ complications, […]

October 8, 2014 – 2:23 pm | By Bhavin Jankharia | Posted in Dying in Mumbai, Medicine, Mumbai Mirror Column | Comments (3)

Laughing at Ourselves

It says something about a society when it can’t laugh at itself! If you were to look at WhatsApp Groups or Google Groups, you would think that Indians are the funniest people on Earth. Virtually every second post is a forwarded joke…the commonest jokes being about husband-wife relationships then sex and then politicians. In fact, […]

August 31, 2014 – 11:27 am | By Bhavin Jankharia | Posted in General, Social Commentary | Tagged , | Comments (2)

Indigo Airline’s Customer Snafus

This email came to me in the morning from Indigo. I sent a reply related to the “gender” issue the moment I received it but I still haven’t heard from them. When will they ever learn how to handle customers? _________________________________________________________________ Dear Sir / Madam, Seriously? You can’t be bothered to find out my gender? […]

August 26, 2014 – 2:25 pm | By Bhavin Jankharia | Posted in General, Peeves & Rants | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Ain’t No Mountain High Enough…A Long Winding Film Review

The piece I was actually to going to write yesterday was based on the new article in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC) about the long-term benefits of running, but I am converting that into a book, so more about that later. All the highlights in Bold are the ideas that are […]

August 16, 2014 – 2:32 pm | By Bhavin Jankharia | Posted in Films, General | Tagged , , , , | Comments (1)

Red Nails and Funerals

A friend’s father died a couple of weeks ago. That Sunday morning, the dead-body / corpse, once a living Mr. D, was to be taken to the Sion crematorium from his house in Matunga. I went to offer my condolences and to be around in case my friend needed any help. There were quite a […]

July 29, 2014 – 12:36 pm | By Bhavin Jankharia | Posted in Matunga, Social Commentary | Tagged , | Comments (9)

The Top 10 Things We Can Do to Help Mr. Modi Reboot to India 2.0

In the aftermath of Mr. Modi’s win, we now have a bunch of WA messages doing the rounds, “requesting” Mr. Modi to do everything…take care of the roads, ensure drinkable tap water, provide 24-hours electricity, prevent FDI in retail and so on. Mr. Modi may be the Prime Minister, but he does not have magic […]

May 18, 2014 – 12:01 pm | By Bhavin Jankharia | Posted in General, Peeves & Rants | Tagged , | Comments (25)

Goodbye!

All of this in a way started in 1999 with a “writing” site, www.manfrommatunga.com that I maintained anonymously on my own…everything from writing the code to the content. It was a “blog”, when blogging software hadn’t yet been invented. And, while the word “blog” was coined in 1997, it was only around 2001 that “blogging” […]

March 28, 2014 – 11:01 pm | By Bhavin Jankharia | Posted in General, Mumbai Mirror Column | Comments (44)

The Graveyard of Unwritten Columns

People constantly ask me how I have managed to churn out a column each week without fail for the last 5 years, irrespective of where I am in the world, on diverse subjects that often have no common thread. As many of you have remarked, this column has been a little eclectic and idiosyncratic perhaps […]

March 28, 2014 – 10:52 pm | By Bhavin Jankharia | Posted in General, Mumbai Mirror Column | Comments (7)

Whose Women’s Day is it Anyway!

Last Saturday was “Women’s Day” and you couldn’t miss it on WA. There was a surge of women-men jokes and posts, some saccharine sweet, extolling the virtues of mothers, wives, daughters, etc., others taking pot shots at all those men who fail to recognize how fortunate they are to have women in their lives. This […]

March 15, 2014 – 6:45 am | By Bhavin Jankharia | Posted in Mumbai Mirror Column, Peeves & Rants | Comments (0)