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Santosh Desai

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Indexed articles, last 90 days
6
Latest publication
Sep 14, 2026
Outlet visibility, for The Times of India
Top 1K sites
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Jul 6, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 14, 2026 · Santosh Desai

    The Weight of Living? - The Times of India (opens the original)

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    Santosh Desai is a leading ad professional. He says he has strayed into writing entirely by accident, and for this he is "grateful". "City City Bang Bang" looks at contemporary Indian society from an everyday vantage point. It covers issues big and small, tends where possible to avoid judgmental positions, and tries instead to understand what makes things the way they are. The desire to look at things with innocent doubt helps in the emergence of fresh perspectives and hopefully, of clarity of a

  2. Article · Aug 31, 2026 · Santosh Desai

    Too young to know better? (opens the original)

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    Santosh Desai is a leading ad professional. He says he has strayed into writing entirely by accident, and for this he is "grateful". "City City Bang Bang" looks at contemporary Indian society from an everyday vantage point. It covers issues big and small, tends where possible to avoid judgmental positions, and tries instead to understand what makes things the way they are. The desire to look at things with innocent doubt helps in the emergence of fresh perspectives and hopefully, of clarity of a

  3. Article · Aug 24, 2026 · Santosh Desai

    And the clip runs free (opens the original)

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    Santosh Desai is a leading ad professional. He says he has strayed into writing entirely by accident, and for this he is "grateful". "City City Bang Bang" looks at contemporary Indian society from an everyday vantage point. It covers issues big and small, tends where possible to avoid judgmental positions, and tries instead to understand what makes things the way they are. The desire to look at things with innocent doubt helps in the emergence of fresh perspectives and hopefully, of clarity of a

  4. Article · Aug 17, 2026 · Santosh Desai

    Lone Man Standing? (opens the original)

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    The applause was thunderous, the kind reserved for film stars, for the new star on the horizon. For those who haven’t heard of him, he is Tukaram Mundhe, Mumbai’s new FDA commissioner, who has struck fear in the hearts of Mumbai’s eateries by strictly enforcing hygiene norms that have always existed on paper but have never really been enforced. Unlike what we have come to expect, he has started with elite targets, including prestigious clubs and places regarded as institutions in the city, ensur

  5. Article · Aug 10, 2026 · Santosh Desai

    Saying The Unsayable? (opens the original)

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    No society approves of abuse. And yet, it exists in every culture. Not only that, society seems to need abuse as an institution, otherwise, it wouldn’t be so universal and timeless. Interestingly, there isn’t too much inventiveness when it comes to the people mentioned in these abuses. Mothers, and in India sisters, become the butt of so many of them. Arguing, as was recently done, that abuse is ‘against culture’ is almost precisely wrong. Abuse arises only from culture. No young person has lear

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