'I stayed like a common prisoner and did not ask for any privileges'

'The place I used to sleep in the jail had a big window high up on the opposite side, where at sunrise and sunset time a bird would drop in every day.''It could be an eagle or a peacock. And......

Restore Aatish Taseer's OCI card: Nobel winners to Modi

Over 260 prominent personalities including authors Nobel prize winners Margaret Atwood, Orhan Pamuk and John Coetzee on Thursday expressed concern over the alleged "targeting" of journalist Aatish......

Han Kang's The Vegetarian wins Man Booker Prize 2016

  South Korean author Han Kang has won the prestigious Man Booker International Prize for her unforgettably powerful" novel The Vegetarian which deals with a woman's rejection of......

The past is not a foreign country

'Despite a quarter century since India began the uphill battle of moving away from its peculiar hybrid of imperial-feudal-socialism, it remains distressingly -- and sometimes reassuringly -- the......

It's weird, it's wonderful, it's Wiki!

"It is common for the police to refer to a 'blunt instrument' when they cannot think of the specific type of club used to bash someone's head in. The origin of the term lies with Sir William......

Shruti Haasan changes her Luck

Kamal Haasan's daughter Shruti gave a lively song and dance performance at a surbuban hotel on July 1 to promote her debut film, Luck. Shruti sang the title song Aazma Luck, which she has lent her......

Varnam, a film to look out for

Varnam is the latest film to join the likes of Tamil films like Veyil, Subramaniapuram, Paruthiveeran, Pasanga etc that are taking an offbeat path. S M Raju, one of the producers of Santhosh......

'I thought the audience would faint'

The angels were surely on Mira's side when she was thinking of having all-Indian cast for The Namesake," says Ronnie Screwvala, the executive producer of the film, referring toMira Nair's latest......

Mammootty's Kayyoppu is worth watching

Described in one line, the story of Ranjith's new Kayyoppu is simply that of a talented writer fighting writer's block. Yet this thin thread is weaved into a well-rounded narrative in the deft......