Manjiri Gokhale's new book 'Crushes, Careers and Cellphones' tries to highlight the generation gap between parents and teenagers through a series of various real life incidents. Read on for excerpts from the book.
An advertisement by Pakistan in America's leading daily the Wall Street Journal on the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks has not gone down well with readers in New York with some calling the ad a "joke".
We bring you an excerpt from the outrageously hilarious book by Rishi Piparaiya!
Ankhon Dekhi's real star is Sanjay Mishra, says Sukanya Verma.
The film does not make any sense if you want to take something back from it.
A look at the Kannada films this Sankranti.
Shipony Pavitran Suri talks to professionals who tell us why fine arts sees a positive trend in the 21st century and what aspirants must do to pursue a career in creative arts.
Akshay Kumar's Khiladi 786 lacks both good action and good comedy, here is looking at his other films like this.
Arun Vaidyanathan is all set to produce Kalyana Samayal Sadham: The Big Fat Indian Wedding.
Micro Drone is a palm-sized personal drone that works straight out of the box.
Starring Dileep and Mamta Mohandas in the lead the film is just another loud gender war.
Two films My Boss and 916 are all set to release this week.
'For a film like Haseena, which is made for Rs 11 crore, the publicity budget was Rs 8 crore. I think it's a waste because that could have gone into the film and I could have done something bigger and better.' Director Apoorva Lakhia looks back at his film Haseena Parker.
The film is just an average kidnap drama with ample dose of comedy.
"In his unfortunate passing away, the country has lost a person who pioneered a unique perspective on probity in public life," the PM said.
Nishi Tiwari trawled through 140-character outpourings to select the most mordant among the humorous comments flooding Twitter on Robert Vadra. Here's her list.
Congress chief Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra has spurred yet another controversy with a post on Facebook, "Mango people in banana republic."
I can actually say I know what it's like to be around someone who was literally a living legend, says film director Kabir Khan.
Humne jo kaha tha who kar dikhaya (Whatever we had said before the final, we have done it.)Shahid Afridi's tongue-in-cheek remark after his side had succumbed to a 29-run defeat in their semi-final against India in Mohali on Wednesday.
It is time to take the sainthood away from Dr Manmohan Singh, says Sudhir Bisht.
'People ask me how I get into a women's psyche so well. Trust me, even I don't know!' Madhur Bhandarkar discusses his Calendar Girls.
With a Hindu Muslim backdrop, the film lacks intensity expected from such films.
Naughty Professor, acted and written by Baburaj and directed by Harinarayanan is a crude comedy.
Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone has turned a mugging into advertising by showing off his black eye in a newspaper advert for a Swiss watchmaker.
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The film gets repetitive after a point.
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Shuddh Desi Romance conveys a simple but underrated philosophy in the most fun way possible.
'The two NSAs, who have been mandated to address mutual concerns on terrorism, will need to devise credible and irreversible measures to see that the likes of Hafiz Saeed and Masood Azhar do not ever get a free hand to run riot again,' says Ambassador G Parthasarathy, India's former high commissioner in Pakistan.
Thenmozhi Soundararajan works to break the shackles of caste for Dalits.
Celebrated novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, who has just won the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature, spoke to Arthur J Pais of Rediff.com in 2009, recalling his wonderful association with Sonny Mehta, editor-in-chief of Alfred A Knopf and chairman of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, who had just won a special award.
'The most important aspect of Bajrangi Bhaijaan is the use of humour to touch some sensitive and potentially explosive political-religious and cultural subjects.'
Tributes flow for 'fine actor' who passed away at age 85.
Kuber Sharma explores the theory that live-in relationships are to men's advantage and provides a humorous take on why they really aren't.
Hercules has its moments, says Paloma Sharma.
The writer/filmmaker was admitted to the hospital yesterday evening around 7 pm where he breathed his last.
The writer/filmmaker was admitted to the hospital yesterday evening around 7 pm where he breathed his last.
The Malayalam film has been in the news for all the wrong reasons.
It was a crazy week for the world. Sukanya Verma cannot claim to be any different.
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