'What nationalism are you talking about?'

'Chanting slogans, chest thumping, calling us big nationalists, but you don't stop at traffic lights.''What nationalism are you talking about?' IMAGE: The horrifying scene in Anubhav Sinha's film......

CBI files corruption case against IAF officials in Pilatus plane deal

The Central Bureau of Investigations has booked controversial arms dealer Sanjay Bhandari and others in connection with the alleged corruption in the Rs 2895 crore deal of 75 Pilatus basic trainer......

Admiral Karambir Singh is the new Navy Chief

As Navy chief, Admiral Singh's immediate priority will be to expedite the long-delayed modernisation of the Indian Navy, including by inducting new warships, submarines and aircraft. IMAGE:......

Military court directs govt to produce records on selection of new Navy Chief

A military tribunal on Wednesday directed the government to produce before it on May 29 all records and documents relating to selection of the new Navy Chief. The direction by the Armed Forces......

Time ripe for rapid growth: PM

Prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh, who returned from the Japan tour on Saturday, has said that the time was favourable for fast economic growth. He speaking in New Delhi on the occasion of release......

Fact more engaging than fiction for Indian readers

Fact, often stranger than fiction, is also becoming more saleable. The tale of Indian publishing is undergoing a twist, with more and more non-fiction books figuring on the best-sellers'......

Film classics see the colour of money

No Bollywood heroine can hold a candle to Madhubala, declares chartered accountant Purvi Vyas, 24, who watched K Asif's Mughal-e-Azam at IMAX Adlabs, a multiplex in Mumbai.She is planning to watch......

The Beautiful Bhooths of Bollywood

Think ghosts. Think grim, grotesque imagery. Bollywood's surplus of petrifying bhootnis and chudails still haunting our nightmares are a case in point. On the other end of the spooky spectrum,......

Bollywood's Most Mesmerising Tawaif? VOTE!

Dazzling, dancing and decked to the hilt, courtesans in Hindi films are a breathtaking mix of shiny fantasy and flirtatious poetry to behold. Under those resplendent adas and thumkas though, often......

When Retro Songs Make A Re-Entry In The Movies

Hindi film songs have a long life and versatile character. They please. They comfort. And when used in a different surrounding from its original setting, they acquire an altogether new context.......

18 Films That Made Us Cry

Entertainment may be its raison d'etre, but the tears brought about by cinema are no less significant. Some movies are more sentimental than others -- they strike an instant chord, touch a raw......