The 10-year-old who shares his birthday with William Shakespeare talks about his inspiration to write, his mini library and big dream.

Sukanya Verma on The Zoya Factor in Indian cinema.

News of all that's transpired on and off the football field

'I can snap my fingers and get 1,000 people overnight, but I can't guarantee that they will develop because there has been zero change in education in the country in the last nine years.'

'A historical with an identity crisis, initially the period drama cannot decide whether it wants to chronicle facts or fictionalise them in the tradition of a crowd-pleasing fantasy,' says Sukanya Verma.

Isn't It Romantic is about a New York woman hit on the head during a mugging. The impact leaves her feeling that she is in a rom-com.

...A hate letter to our system, feels Sreehari Nair.

The prime minister won by 325 votes to 306 -- a majority of 19.

Yorgos Lanthimos's royal drama has 12 nominations!

'Kader Khan could be horribly intimidating, impossibly silly, achingly human and, sometimes, all at once.' 'I was drawn to his magic and magnetism even when I didn't know he was behind it,' recalls Sukanya Verma.

Images from the FA Cup matches played on Saturday

The four south Indian languages grew by 7% while regional languages within the Hindi speaking markets (such as Bhojpuri, Bangla, Marathi, etc) grew by 26%.

Seems like she has had enough of bizarre allegations.

Looking at Priyanka's first Hollywood release of 2019.

Keep your Fridays free this year!

Aseem Chhabra picks the scenes that left him impressed this year.

'How do you expect me to tone down my anger when the most prominent culture in India today is the culture of corruption, in every sphere of life?'

A break-up of business shows that 75% of a firm's turnover is led by volume growth, while 25% is price-led. Companies such as Britannia, Nestl, Dabur, Marico, Kellogg, Parle Products, and Hindustan Unilever have increasingly focused on smaller packs of their key products, aimed at improving sales.

'This time he spreads more than his arms. He finds wings,' declares Sukanya Verma.

The humility with which the BJP deals with these 10 lessons will determine the outcome of 2019, says Shekhar Gupta.

'Freebies are yet be proven a 'pucca' vote-catcher. But don't say that to KCR because he takes pride in two things: His record of delivery and imagination,' says Shekhar Gupta.

This is the most fun Sukanya Verma has had since Wonder Woman.

A worn-out fantasy of shallow wisdom and unspectacular effects, perhaps it's time to close the book on the Mowgli legend, feels Sukanya Verma.

'2.0 ends up looking like a downgraded version of a promising idea,' notes Sukanya Verma.

'It was the Mughals who first established standard units of measurement and maintained offices of meticulous record keepers and auditors, departing from the more haphazard methods of earlier regimes.' 'By the end of the 16th century, their revenue and judicial administrations exhibited an obsessive preoccupation with order, the efficient management of time, and a spirit of rational self-control -- all of them characteristics of early modernity,' point out Sheldon Pollock and Benjamin Ellman.

'We don't know if the water we are drinking has lead in it or not.' 'In India, we don't have ways to easily detect or measure contamination levels.'

Not really, but she is lending her voice to a snake.

The Victoria's Secret model probably had the best birthday ever!

Lingerie giant Victoria's Secret's annual fashion extravaganza was held in New York.

Victoria's Secret model Elsa Hosk put on a show-stopping display in a $1 million fantasy bra.

Comedian Bharti wishes King Khan in her unique way.

'What seemed missing in Tumbbad was that screwiness, that kinkiness, which shades so many of our best parables,' observes Sreehari Nair.

'When we make such stories, that's when we see how tough it is.' 'Our grandmother may narrate a story of a rakshas, but to create that is like chewing peanuts made up of iron!'

Happy 64th, Rekha!

'When we make these action machismo films, the stupidest thing is to show that the hero sails through a thousand people. It's a tradition we have grown up with.' 'We don't have the basis of creating a Bruce Lee or a Jackie Chan.'

The Rafale will surely be flying in Indian skies next year. But the way the BJP government has botched this will cast a shadow on defence acquisitions in the years to come.

We celebrate Bhattsaab and his greatest gems.

Mythological and historical shows are lapped up not just by the young, but equally by grown men and women.

With fresh flowers adorning their heads, these models looked simply gorgeous.

'Ekta Kapoor candidly confessed that she is equated with scandal, sleaze and shocking content.' 'So it's gutsy on her part that she is not bothered if our Indian audience is ready for such a Web series.'