Anil Dharker: Editor, bon vivant, mentor to many

Everywhere Anil Dharker went, he assembled teams of talented people, gave them opportunities, then got out of the way and allowed them to flourish.Meenakshi Shedde remembers a very special......

Debate on free speech heats up; Anupam Kher booed

Mumbai audience boos actor for his remarks. Actor Anupam Kher was booed by the audience as a debate at a literary festival in Mumbai on freedom of speech heated up, with the actor wondering aloud......

Zubin Mehta: When a maestro performs...

Whether it's a full-fledged concert or the launch of his autobiography in India, the incomparable Zubin Mehta is always on song. Zubin Mehta may be touching eighty (April 29), but that has not......

Shashi Tharoor: 'Media has brought giants down to size'

At a recent discussion in Crossword bookstore in Mumbai, Dr Shashi Tharoor spoke on a wide range of topics -- from Nehru and the concept of India to the lessons we haven't learnt from modern......

How COVID is changing the game plan for booksellers, publishers

In the future, publishers will need to think of digital immersive marketing just like marketing a movie or show on Netflix is an immersive experience. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com After......

Billionaire in a banian

Some Very Important Visitors -- or at least visitors who considered themselves very important -- came one evening to meet OP Jindal at his Delhi house.The guard pointed to a man in a banian (vest)......

Ayesha Dharker loves wearing provocative costumes!

Bollywood was not a viable option for Ayesha Dharker, 26, as she did not think it to have real characters and stories.Yet, in the musical extravaganza Bombay Dreams, she plays a flashy Bollywood......

'Jennifer's death destroyed Shashi Kapoor'

'With Jennifer gone, Shashi struggled, but couldn't find himself.''That vast area of his personality that was Jennifer -- now it lay empty.'The death of his beloved wife was a blow Shashi Kapoor......

'Shashi Kapoor didn't need to pretend'

A beloved actor and filmmaker, a generous promoter of theatre, a family man... the late Shashi Kapoor was all this and more. In Shashi Kapoor: The Householder, The Star, Aseem Chhabra gives us......