'The PMO resembles a mini public meeting'

Marcel Proust (1871-1922) is not widely known in India. A Frenchmen of Jewish origin, his fame rests on his novel Remembrance of Things Past. It is considered, after Tolstoy's War and Peace, the......

Obama should visit India -- soon

My fellow columnist Gordon G Chang made a piquant point in this space last week in his preview of Hillary Clinton's trip to East Asia -- her first trip abroad as secretary of state. Chiding her for......

SA woman withdraws charges against judge

A 27-year-old South African AIDS activist on Thursday withdrew rape charges against her compatriot and high court judge Sirajuddin Mohammed Ibrahim Desai currently lodged in a Mumbai jail.In a......

'Mediators come as friends and become masters'

When Maulvi Abbas Ansari took over aschairman of the All-Parties Hurriyat Conference last month from Abdul Gani Bhat, many in the media were surprised. The little known Ansari's initial statements......

'If anybody asks me what I do, I'll say I'm a Grammy winner'

'What I see in Bollywood is that there’s this assembly line -- there’s a lyrics writer, there’s a composer, then there’s playback singer who is selected on mutual......

Idris Elba, Morgan Freeman: The many onscreen faces of Nelson Mandela

Madiba has been played both by the veteran American actor as well as the exciting British actor of Ghanaian-Nigerian descent. Nelson Mandela passed into the ages on Thursday night. The Nobel......

Book on the Dutts to come out this month

Sanjay Dutt, currently out on bail after having been sentencedto six years of rigorous imprisonment, had nothing but jail coupons to offer to his sisters when they visited him in jail on Raksha......

Anupam Kher in autobiographical play

His directorial debut Om Jai Jagadish -- starring Anil Kapoor, Fardeen Khan, Abhishek Bachchan, Mahima Chaudhary, Urmila Matondkar, Tara Sharma and Waheeda Rehman -- last year did not create the......