'New bank licences has put RBI, system in credible light'

No one knew how serious the government actually was when it announced the decision to issue fresh licences to promote financial inclusion - but two microfinance organisations, Bandhan and......

Awards for remarkably different cos!

Welcome to the Academy Awards for the October-December 2007 quarter where we acknowledge the best, the most surprising and the remarkably different! The VVS Laxman Award for Unassuming Brilliance:......

Sony flops in Bollywood

Hollywood's first big foray into Bollywood has received a bruising reception in India with websites that track box-office sales branding it a flop. Sony Pictures' co-production of locally made......

'We All Grow Up, Become Wiser'

'Since we are in the same party now, there has to be political camaraderie if nothing more.' Photograph: Kind courtesy Shekhar Suman Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar has given a new lease of career......

'Heeramandi wasn't another sex scene'

'While I was performing it, I had a weird feeling that people would love it because it's so bizarre.' Photograph: Kind courtesy Shekhar Suman Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Heeramandi: The Diamond......

'I Didn't Expect To Be Away For 12 Years'

'Personal reasons required me to take some time off.' IMAGE: Fardeen Khan in Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar "When you've been away for so long, you have all these fears and insecurities of whether......

Looking At 1999: 25 Years Ago In Bollywood...

1999 in Hindi movies marked the end of a vibrant young decade and a gentle promise of electrifying new things to come in the new millennium. Where madcap masala still reigned supreme, morally......