'Astad had the courage to plough a lonely furrow. He made a life of his own, on his own, and created a path-breaking dance style.''Only a few in the performing arts could do what he did.''A......
Cambridge University historian Piers Brendon's provocative and highly readable book The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997 looks at one of the greatest and most diverse empires in......
Social networking site BigAdda, will soon be launching its second reality offering called Get Fit India. It is an eight week reality show on Bigadda.com The auditions for the show will be held......
Ben Southall, a British charity worker has won the 'best job in the world'. He bags a $150,000 deal to work as caretaker of a tropical Australian island. The 34-year-old beat over 34,000......
Delhi-based fashion institute, Pearl Academy of Fashion, seems to have its finger on the pulse of the job market. Last month the academy kicked off its fashion media make-up programme, arguably the......
Love, Sitara doesn't flesh out the people or their problems enough to give us a glimpse into their minds, observes Sukanya Verma. Love, Sitara starts off by quoting Leo Tolstoy's opening line from......
Heeramandi, a passion project that took off after years in development and planning, mirrors Sanjay Leela Bhansali's film-making's finest and frustrating features, observes Sukanya Verma. It's......
In a year of overwrought spectacles that slavishly sucked up to the audience, I found refuge in a bunch of 'mainstream' Indian films that espoused such old-fashioned values as dedication to craft,......
1996, recapped. 25 years ago, Madras became Chennai, Dolly the sheep was successfully cloned, Doordarshan combatted aggressive satellite cable networking, Indian politicians engaged in a crazy game......
'Her short black choli with a deep cut-out back and multi-coloured pom-poms became quite a sensation. It was clearly meant to draw your attention to Kareena's perfect figure.' Costumes play an......
The 12-minute halftime show, along with commercials, has become a popular feature of the Super Bowl spectacle on par with the game itself, which draws some 100 million television viewers in the......
Mir Abdul Hanan and Mudasir Mehraj, two budding footballers from Kashmir are all set to fly to Spain to polish their skills in soccer. This was announced by J&K chief Omar......