'My art is my God and the stage is my temple'

'Art has no religion. An artist is an artist.' IMAGE: Mansiya. All photographs: Kind courtesy Mansiya VP/Facebook It was in the late 1950s that an 11-year-old Hyder Ali joined the Kerala......

How the Congress is losing more than elections

The colour television and the personal computer have been essential electronic items in the Congress' electoral inventory for over a quarter of a century. The party's understanding of the power of......

White House selects Indian-American teen for 'Champions of Change' award

A 15-year-old Indian-American teen has been selected by the White House for the prestigious Champions of Change award for empowering the community by imparting Internet coding through her......

Kamal Haasan@70: What Makes Him Ulaga Nayagan

'With passage of time, Kamal did move away from the humdrum of commercial cinema, using it only as a peg to launch a new concept or new technology, as no other actor/film-maker has done in Indian......

'You are dance and dance is you'

'Thank you for my dreams that danced then and now.'I realise how lucky I was as a child to have grown up around such greatness, so much humility, and at the core of it all a childlike playfulness.'......

'I call Rocket Boys an emotion'

'It was so nice to see that someone of her stature, where she came from and whose family she was married into and how she held herself in spite of everything that was thrown at her.' "You don't......

Dancing her way to success

For Priyadarshini Govind, the excitement of performing in public is an unending inspiration. "It is like a devotion," says the Bharatanatyam exponent, who has been in the public eye, performing for......