'It is also very sad that many of us are yet to discover the Northeastern part of India. After having been to every state of India, people often refuse to believe that I am an Indian,' says Armstrong Pame, the admirable IAS officer from Manipur, who built a 100 km long road in a remote part of the hill state without government help.
We invited readers to share stories of how they met their spouses and interesting anecdotes about their wedding day. Here's the first response!
She is the only female athlete in the Pakistan squad at the Commonwealth Games in Delhi, but Tazeem Akhtar Abbasi is definitely not feeling leftout.
He is stemming migration to cities and ushering in social change in Uttarakhand.
The kindest thing one can say about Ishqedarriyaan is that it is yawn worthy
It's a bad film brought furthur down by a bunch of Bollywood cliches and a fading Preity Zinta.
Luis Figo was one of the most talented, successful and exciting players of his generation, leading Portugal to a series of impressive performances which put many bigger countries to shame.
Yet, for all his belief in the goodness of life, Mani's films show that life is too complicated for goodness to permeate it completely.
'I feel very lucky that people have noticed my work.'
'Show me songs that become larger than songs better than Dylan's.' 'Show me words that are like the master key to every human emotion under the sun better than Dylan's.' 'And show me someone who tosses it all out like Dylan does, every time.'
Readers share their love stories.
Sreehari Nair presents his Top 20 movies of the decade.
A reader who wished to be anonymous shares his love story ahead of Valentine's Day.
Here are a few things to know about 'Jihadi John'
'By hoisting the national flag we have kindled a small flame of hope among the Adivasis.' 'We will strive to keep this flame burning forever among their hearts.'
Booze binge killed the 33 singer who had gone on a night out with partner Andy Cowles to a gay club.
Here's what your favourite Bollywood stars are tweeting.
Was it best for J K Rowling to have ended the series with Harry Potter and the Deathly Gallows?
The cast and crew of Smile Pinki are touring India, to spread the message of the film -- cleft lip operations -- and the greater vision of Smile Train.
Unless you're a hardcore Twihard, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn 2 feels unbearably sluggish.
Bill Clinton was the first husband to give a speech on behalf of his wife as the nominee of a major party.
Here's what caught our eye at the movies this year.
The actress shocked the Kannada film industry when she arrived at the audio launch of her debut film Prem Kahani in a revealing outfit.
Bollywood remembers their daddies on Father's Day.
The latest updates from Hollywood.
Boyhood will open your mind a little bit more toward the possibilities great cinema holds, says Raja Sen.
'The maverick, alpha male, super suave spy, who kills as efficiently as he charms the pants off women, doing the mother of all gender-benders and trading his tux for high heels?'
EyeEm, a global community and marketplace for photography and video, is in the middle of its fourth and largest photography competition yet.
Here's a glimpse of the latest hairstyle trends showcased by the Schwarzkopf Essential Looks event held May 10 in Mumbai.
Tiger Shroff has got the goods of a solid action hero but it's time to step out of the show reel space and shine under an actual script and a skilled hand, feels Sukanya Verma.
For a person who hasn't overdosed on a TV series for decades -- not since the delightful Friends, and much further back, the homily-laden Hum Log or the excellent Buniyaad or Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi -- Game of Thrones has been a game changer for me, writes Shuma Raha.
Ethiopia's Tirunesh Dibaba sprinted to gold in the slowest 5,000 meters race in four Olympics on Friday to become the first woman to win both long distance races at the same Games. The 23-year-old world record holder won the 10,000m in the second fastest time a week ago but the early laps of Friday's race more closely resembled the pace of the morning's 20km walk.
'The content on television is directly proportional to what the audience likes.'
The World Before Her is a remarkable film, if for no other reason than that it tells the story of India's women centred on them alone.
'Made in Heaven plays well as a busy show; when it's hip, but without being hopeless,' feels Sreehari Nair.
Brazilian striker Ronaldo fears his reputation has been ruined forever after his "shameful" run-in with transvestites in Rio de Janeiro last week. "I've done something really stupid in my personal life," the AC Milan player said in an interview with Globo television on Sunday.
Here is the third part of a series wherein we publish reader stories concerning ragging in colleges.
Purani Jeans lacks vision, originality and the spunk one expects from a college romance film, says Paloma Sharma.
It was hard for me to let her go. I was amazed on the grounds that she was alright to live far from her mom and dad.
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