The courage of Captain Haneef, Vir Chakra, martyr at 25

'Captain Haneef-ud-din, pulling his sinewy body forward, crawled, rifle in hand, in the snow on 6 June 1999. He died on this craggy mountainside exactly two years after he had passed out of the......

When Moshe and Netanyahu visited Moshe's old home

'The Indian and Israeli rabbis were singing a small departure song for brave little Moshe, who had spent many, likely, heartbreaking but bittersweet hours at this home of his babyhood, looking at......

How Hakimullah Mehsud became a dreaded jihadi

Hakimullah Mehsud, who succeeded Baitullah Mehsud as the feared head of the Tehrik-e-Taliban after the latter was killed in a US drone strike last year, wrote a short autobiography that highlights......

The day Sonu Sood can NEVER forget

'I went to Nagpur for my engineering.''I used to model there, those amateur fashion shows.''Then you know, I thought why not try my luck in films and all?' IMAGE: Sonu Sood. India's......

Guide, Waqt, Jaanwar: Bollywood classics turning 50 this year!

How many of these have aged well? Fifty years ago, while India was engaged in war with Pakistan, Hindi cinema flourished in effervescent, excited Eastman colours. 1965 is significant in more ways......

These actors are 'different'

There are three kinds of films: one that tells a story;the other that tells what happens in between a story. And the third that is devoid of any content whatsoever. There are three kinds of actors......