What you didn't know about Indian trains

Trains, at one point in time, were not just a mode of transport. They told a story, says Bibek Debroy. IMAGE: The Saraighat Express. Photograph: Kind courtesy Smeet Chowdhury/Flickr This is a......

Wild cats captured!

Two tigresses, who had been terrorising villages in Sunderbans for weeks, have finally been captured. Forest officials at Pirkhali trapped the wild cats. This was the 32nd such......

Bollywood's Parsi power!

And no, says Sukanya Verma, the list doesn't start and stop with Boman Irani! Often caricatured on celluloid, there's more to the small but solid Parsi community than quirks and accent. Quite a few......

Review: Rangoon is a grand hotchpotch!

Rangoon is too fuzzy and half-hearted, feels Sukanya Verma. 'Aurat' he scoffs at her apparent naiveté.  'Aurat,' she reminds him, seconds after demonstrating her fruit ninja......

Review: Rangoon, an explosion by Vishal Bhardwaj

'Rangoon haunts in unlikely fashion and, while the director's most straightforward picture, holds enough of its own marvels to justify multiple viewings,' notes Raja Sen. She doesn't want to sit on......

'I can't say I'm as big as the Khans'

'Apart from being total eye-candies, Saif and Shahid are very good actors.' 'Saif is that classy man, who would open the door for you and pull chairs for you.' 'Shahid would come to the sets......

PICS: Schmiedlova stuns Azarenka; Nadal, Thiem cruise

Images from Day 4 of the French Open, at Roland Garros, in Paris. IMAGE: Slovakia's Anna Karolina Schmiedlova continued her stunning return to form in Paris, having beaten Venus Williams in round......