India in His Camera!

'I reached Bhopal the day after the gas tragedy; the smell was still in the air.''It was a professional hazard, but I was not scared.' Please click on the images below for a better look at Mukesh......

Bollywood makes it to another dictionary

India's top actors may find the description of the Hindi film industry as Bollywood derogatoryand humiliatingbut the word has just been added to another leading dictionary. After Oxford, it's......

RIP RK Laxman: Common Man just lost its first citizen

  Capturing the entire gamut of idiosyncrasies of Indian politicians in an innocuous newspaper box with his cartoons, R K Laxman immortalised the passive, hapless common man with an uncanny......

Preet Bharara: A crusader's tenure, a hero's exit

Meet the US Attorney who took on Donald Trump.Monali Sarkar profiles Preet Bharara. IMAGE: Preet Bharara was among the longest serving US Attorneys for the Southern District of New York.......

Mittal takes stake in UK soccer club

Queen's Park Rangers, the Championship football club co-owned by two of the billionaires behind F1, on Thursday welcomed one of the world's richest men into its fold when Lakshmi Mittal bought a 20......

BJP goes beyond India's shine

If the voter has somehow missed the fact that India is shining, the Bharatiya Janata Party is readying to educate him anew. This time to tell him how he has gained personally from a resurgent......

Videocon's new brand building campaign

It's another take on an ageless Hindi film script. Two brothers are separated in a crowded mela (fair), while pursuing their respective interests - crushed ice candy and balloons. The children are......

'Slapped' into submission

A few weeks ago, the doctor working with the victims of pesticide poisoning in Kerala's plantation districts was served a legal notice from pesticide company giants.His crime: writing a letter to......

Paa, on the cover of a magazine

Seems like Amitabh Bachchan's gangly dance in his just released movie Paa is fast catching on.   The actor and his son Abhishek, who also stars in the movie, made the cover of Hi Blitz......

What scares Ranbir Kapoor

Ranbir Kapoor is the fourth generation inheritor of the Kapoor lineage. The younger child of hugely loved actors Rishi and Neetu Kapoor is steadily climbing the ladder to enter Bollywood's big......

Vote: Hottest magazine covers of 2009

Being a cover girl can be tedious, especially when you need to look 'exclusive' every time. Every month a Bollywood beauty dolls up in her most striking avatar, experimenting and reinventing her......

PIX: The Top Ten Cover Girls Of 2011

Scorching. Sublime. Sassy. The year 2011 saw an array of moods and attitude on magazine covers. Some dropped clothes. Some got wings. Some stayed classy. With technology creeping into every......

Not just cricket for Tendulkar

Sachin Tendulkar has got little to prove on the cricket field; but off it, the sporting icon has one big regret -- not having learnt a musical instrument.The little master loves tuning in to music,......

PIX: Vishy Anand celebrates International Chess Day with son

India's chess great Viswanathan Anand celebrated International Chess Day on Saturday, with a friendly chess game against his son Akhil."Look who decided to celebrate #InternationalChessDay......

The Maria Sharapova phone

Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova poses for photographers holding Motorola's Pink M1000, which was made specifically for her, at a media conference on in Tokyo on Thursday.The conference was......

Anand wins fourth Chess Oscar

Vishwanathan Anand has become the first non-Russian to win the coveted Chess Oscar for the fourth time. The Indian ace was voted as the winner by a huge margin by the Chess community in the poll......