Jeffrey Archer on his Indian love story

English author Lord Jeffrey Archer loves India with all of his heart, but knows he'll never write a broad sweeping novel set in the subcontinent. "To write about India like that, I think you have......

Master Diplomat, Malgudi Maestro, Mysore

R K Narayan's house has been preserved as a simple museum with his memorabilia, thanks to the imagination of a commissioner of Mysore, who stopped its sale by the author's successors to a property......

RIP RK Laxman: Common Man just lost its first citizen

  Capturing the entire gamut of idiosyncrasies of Indian politicians in an innocuous newspaper box with his cartoons, R K Laxman immortalised the passive, hapless common man with an uncanny......

Thank you Mr Holmes

He was standing just where I had seen him three years ago.The deerstalker cap, the cape coat, the pipe. Right beside Sherlock Holmes' statue outside Baker Street tube station,dressed just like......

'Swami has the Malgudi Days effect'

He started his own dance group at the young age of 12, became a choreographer at 19 and worked in his first film, Anaam, at 21. That's choreographer-turned-film director, Ganesh Acharya, for you.......

TV shows we'd love to watch on big screen!

Every time you think back to Doordarshan Network's classic serials like Malgudi Days, Hum Log, Dekh Bhai Dekh or Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi, you wish some mainstream channel acquires their rights and......

What You Can Watch On OTT This Week

From dark humour to days of innocence, it's quite an emotional spectrum on OTT this week. Sukanya Verma lists your viewing options.   Half Pants Full PantsWhere to watch? Amazon Prime......

Reader's Pick: The 25 GREATEST characters on Indian TV

A solved murder mysteries while munching carrots. B met one girl of every zodiac sign to ask her hand in marriage. C lay on a bed of arrows for every single week for months to come. D is still......