'Arnab Goswami is the Ekta Kapoor of TV news'

For Arnab Goswami, the television studio is a stage and he plays his part to the hilt, with a finger on the pulse of the English-speaking audience, says Veenu Sandhu On Thursday night, minutes......

'The world is only semi-globalised'

Pankaj Ghemawat is dismissive of the obsession with growth and scale economies -- he calls them 'dinosaur economics.' He would be much happier if companies considered all components of economic......

How Zee scripted its own success story

There is a strong sense of deja vu at Zee TV's Mumbai headquarters. In July 2000, nine of the top 10 programmes on cable television were from Zee. Then came Kaun Banega Crorepati, archrival Star......

Is Star feeling the heat?

Sony Entertainment Television's executive vice president (ad sales) Rohit Gupta is quite kicked. Pepsi has just signed up as the sixth sponsor for Indian Idol, the channel's popular new music-based......

How KBC is now shot

'We are very protective of him.''People can't go close to him and take pictures like before.'Ranjita Ganesan reports. Youthful elbow bumps have replaced the old hugs and handshakes as the chosen......

Why Madhuri gets butterflies in her stomach

'After doing Dedh Ishqiya and Bucket List, I am ready to take up risks in films.' Photograph: Kind courtesy Madhuri Dixit/Instagram Madhuri Dixit seems to have cracked the impossible task of......

What do you think of these TV shows?

Some were made on a grand scale, sending off a strong buzz even if they could not live up to it, while others told a good story.What do you think of these shows? Tell us in the message board below!......

A super filmi week with Anushka, Kangana and Jeetendra!

A lesson for Jeetendra from Raaj Kumar, Shashi Kapoor delivering gas and Susan Sarandon-Jessica Lange's caustic retelling of the infamous Bette Davis-Joan Crawford feud, Sukanya Verma's super-filmi......

IPL 2023: The Rs 5,000 Crore Battle!

This season, the nature of the advertising game has changed dramatically with TV and digital rights going to different entities. IMAGE: Gujarat Titans, champions, IPL 2022. Photograph: BCCI March......

Playing the perfect 'cover' drive

Vanity Fair's August edition, featuring Caitlyn Jenner -- formerly the famed 1976 Olympic gold medal-winning decathlon champion Bruce Jenner -- on the cover was the magazine's best-selling issue in......

'Tendulkar has lost his fighting abilities'

Readers' responses toThe naked and the dead feature: It is SPOT ON.I feel we r saying this day only because of our seniors (namely Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar and VVS Laxman).Please make no......

Readers on where India has gone wrong

M KRISHNANAND:Dear SirI appreciate your efforts in getting valuable feedback from people on the reasons for India's poor form in ODIs and how we can improve it . Now that the Pakistan series is......