'If you can have Rampur flown magically to Pakistan's borders, I might ask the nawab to accede to Pakistan. Else, I'm afraid we have no choice in the matter but to join India.' A riveting excerpt......
'If you persist in opposing the government, they set the ED or the NIA on you. And the courts have not given us much hope.' IMAGE: Roop Rekha Verma at a protest showing solidarity with Gujarat......
A complaint has been filed against The Kashmir Files director Vivek Agnihotri at a police station in Mumbai over his "Bhopali means homosexual" comment seeking registration of an FIR for defamation......
'There were any number of Congress leaders who disliked Sonia Gandhi, but they were very close to Ahmed Bhai and he would listen, and give a shoulder to cry upon.' IMAGE: Congress Treasurer Ahmed......
His manners are impeccable, almost nawabi.Aziz Ahmed Khan was a spokesman for the foreign office in Islamabad before being named Pakistan's high commissioner to India in June 2003.A career......
Delhi and Mumbai may have made hasty temporary arrangements for the mammoth two-decker Airbus A380s to land exhibition flights earlier this year. But it is Hyderabad that will have south Asia's......
Cafedreams.com, the two-year-old memorabilia website, is currently holding an exhibition cum auction of its original Hindi film poster collection at Delhi's Nikko Metropolitan Hotel. The exhibition......
Heeramandi, a passion project that took off after years in development and planning, mirrors Sanjay Leela Bhansali's film-making's finest and frustrating features, observes Sukanya Verma. It's......
'I am lucky. To be born in that Pataudi house.' IMAGE: Kareena Kapoor Khan and Saif Ali Khan at Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant's pre-wedding event in Jamnagar. Photograph: Kind courtesy Saif......
It's a season of sequels, with Gadar 2 and OMG 2 hitting the cinemas together. it took a while for Bollywood film-makers to cash in on sequels and franchises, but over the last decade or so, there......
Aseem Chhabra lists his favourite films from the recent Toronto International Film Festival. As the pandemic situation began to improve and movie theatres opened up in North America, the Toronto......
Eid-ul-Fitr has been celebrated in a big way in Hindi films. The films listed below, in fact, are those where the festival plays a pivotal plot point, observes Subhash K Jha. Chaudvin Ka......
VVS Laxman was the one of the last artists of the willow, writes Haresh PandyaCricket is not all about runs and wickets and catches. The beauty of the game lies in how you make runs, how you......
Reader Justin Prince sent us this picture from Dubai. 'We spotted Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi at the Emirates Lounge at the Dubai International Airport. We were going on a holiday to Sri Lanka while......
I stood outside a local hair-cutting saloon in the Nawabi Bagh area of Karachi as twilight descended on the port city. A contact, after a few minutes of cajoling, had agreed to introduce me to a......