After years of disrepair and disregard, acclaimed author R K Narayan's house is slowly inching towards becoming a memorial. A cloud of dust blankets the two-storied bungalow that stands......
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......
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......
Eminent cartoonist R K Laxman has died at a Pune hospital at the age of 94. Back in 1997, we had carried an excerpt from Past Forward, an autobiographical book which carried anecdotes of eminent......
Malgudi Days, directed by the late Shankar Nag, was a phenomenon when it first appeared on Doordarshan in the 80s. The author, R K Narayan, had once described Malgudi as a town "habited by timeless......
Paresh C Palicha wonders why Malgudi Days has so many subplots when the main idea itself was good enough for a film. The title of the film is very misleading as it has no connection with the......
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.......
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......
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......