There isn't a little bit of Salman Khan in all men

I fear for our collective inability to wrestle the plague of rape in this nation, says Prathmesh Kher. My colleague Prasanna D Zore posted an interesting column on Salman Khan and his analogising......

PM aims for desi boost for India's military build-up

Excerpts from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's speech at the Combined Commanders Conference on board the INS Vikramaditya at sea, off the coast of Kochi.  IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra......

2016 Sony World Photography Awards: 16 breathtaking shots

The $30,000 prize (Rs 19.8 lakh) is up for grabs at the Sony World Photography Awards. With barely weeks left to enter the 2016 Sony World Photography Awards, the world's biggest photography......

'How many of us remember Ghalib, Faiz, Kabir, Tagore?'

S H Raza In our special series on the India You Didn't Know, eminent painter S H Raza remembers Indian greats Ghalib, Tagore, Faiz and Kabir -- and lauds our inheritance of different forms of......

GM unveils LPG-run Chevrolet Spark

General Motors India launched the liquefied petroleum gas version of its popular small car, Chevrolet Spark, in Mumbai on Tuesday. The version is GM India's first clean-burning,......

Driving the world's fastest sedan

Do you know what happens when you drive at 300 kph everyday? You grow horns and start staring at your very own arrow-tipped tail. None of you, dear readers, I bet, can challenge me on that......

'Duggu can do anything he sets his mind to'

'As tempers flared, worried for his safety, I requested Duggu to sit in his car by the gate.''He did.''Later, I asked him how he could have remained so calm in the circumstances.''He told me......

Moothon review

All through Moothon, you can sense Geethu Mohandas trying hard to empathise with her characters; I just wish she were interested in them, declares Sreehari Nair. Geethu Mohandas's Moothon is the......

'A film is like a one-night stand'

'I'm a rascal, I'm going to play a paramahansa?!' IMAGE: Victor Banerjee was in Mumbai to promote the film, The Answer. On the second half of a day of back-to-back interviews, the actor changed......

October: When fools dare

A big part of October's charm is in its taking of a cinematic tragedy and presenting to us how we may experience it in real life, says Sreehari Nair. Danish Walia (Varun Dhawan) is the perfect man......

Mumbai@500: Maximum City's romance with cricket

Having produced the maximum number of international cricketers across three formats, even the staggering statistics will not be able to tell the kind of impact Mumbai has had on Indian cricket over......

V V S Laxman on the Magic of Cricket

'If fame, money and comfort are the only factors that drive us, then we are playing cricket for entirely the wrong reasons.' IMAGE: V V S Laxman celebrates his double century in the memorable Eden......

These girls have power

Manavi Kapur goes behind the scenes to find out what it takes to be a successful woman wrestler. IMAGE: Sakshi Malik celebrates defeating Aisuluu Tynybekova of Kyrgyzstan in the women's Freestyle......

VVS Laxman's Pataudi Lecture: Full Text

Full text of VVS Laxman's Pataudi Memorial Lecture in Kolkata. VVS Laxman delivers the third annual Pataudi Memorial lecture, at the Taj Bengal Hotel in Kolkata. Photograph: BCCI Good evening......

Choose your Dream Indian Team

Image: Kapil Dev. Photograph: Allsport UK Haresh Pandya picks his all-time best Indian Test team which is packed with some exciting stroke-players, a couple of heavy-scorers known to play......