Salman Rushdie, You Are A Fighter

As he struggles in hospital, I wonder why anyone, especially someone who was not even born when The Satanic Verses was published, would want to harm a 75-year-old man and a literary treasure,......

Showing soon in Los Angeles: Bollywood glitz

Cooking With Stella will open the 8th annual Indian Film Fetsival of Los Angeles, to be held April 20 to 25 at Arclight Hollywood. The festival will showcase 33 films from five countries, including......

Salman Rushdie's visit to Kolkata cancelled

Controversial author Salman Rushdie's visit to Kolkata to promote Deepa Mehta's film Midnight's Children, based on his novel, has been cancelled due to security issues. A source close to the film......

Culture has become the new target of terror: Rushdie

In an Exclusive Interview with CNN-IBN's Deputy Editor Sagarika Ghose, one of the greatest contemporary literary voices Salman Rushdie and internationally acclaimed......

Deepa Mehta at Water premiere

Reader Rikin Thakker spotted Deepa Mehta at Water's premiere in Washingon DC last year. He had to wait for two hoursfor the tickets as it was a houseful show with most of the Non Indians in queue.......

First Look: Deepa Mehta's Midnight's Children

Here's what your favourite Bollywood celebrities are tweeting. The poster of Deepa Mehta's much-awaited Midnight's Children, featuring actor Siddharth, is out. Siddharth, who......

The Bapsi Sidhwa-Deepa Mehta connection

Eight years after Deepa Mehta turned Bapsi Sidhwa's novel Cracking India into an acclaimed film called Fire, and a few weeks after Sidhwa published the novel Water based on Mehta's award-winning......

Akshay in Deepa Mehta's next?

Deepa Mehta plans to make anambitious film on the 1914 Komagata Maru tragedy thatdemonstrated the racist policies of the then Canadian Government.Toronto-based Hamilton-Mehta Productions announced......

Luger Keshavan named India coach, High Performance Director

IMAGE: Star luger Shiva Keshavan represented India in six Winter Olympics from 1998 to 2018. Photograph: Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters Shiva Keshavan, the first Indian to compete in the luge event at......