The key witnesses in the Salman Khan case

A sessions court in Mumbai on Wednesday found Bollywood star Salman Khan guilty of killing a homeless man in a 2002 hit-and-run crash reportedly after a night out drinking. Khan was accused of......

Hit-and-run case: Salman's driver told a lie, prosecutor charges

Dubbing the driver of superstar Salman Khan as a ‘liar’ for telling the court that he was driving the car and not the actor when it rammed into a bakery shop in September 2002, killing......

The India that is not Bharat...

A battle for a glass of red wine ends happily when an Air India traveller magnanimously accepts whiskey instead, reports B S Prakash.Illustration: Uttam GhoshSix years ago, when I was the Indian......

Love and belonging in Kolkata

In February 1990 I married Amitav Ghosh before a crowd of strangers on the rooftop of his parents' house in Calcutta. Among them was the popular and prolific Bengali writer named Tarapada Roy.......

High on white spirits

This week, Mumbai's popular nightclub Athena closed down for renovation. It will re-open three months later in a brand new avataar: a night club dedicated to vodka.While Ssteel in Delhi and Czar in......

Catering biz: Serving up the power sushi

The catering industry was once wedding-centric. Now it's learning to do things in style, to match the evolving tastes of a young, corporate India. Blue Label scotch but also custom-made rose-petal......

Ileana, Deepika, Kareena: Saif's hottest heroine? VOTE!

Take this fun poll now!Saif Ali Khan's new film Happy Ending brings him together with Ileana D'Cruz for the first time.Given Saif's past pairings, it sure is a tall order for the Happy Ending......

Dismal opening for Metro in US, UK

Making Life In A... Metro may have been therapeutic for it's writer and director Anurag Basu, but the film was not even on life support when it opened in the United Kingdom and North America. The......

Coach Shastri celebrates India's win with a 'punch'

'Sunny Jamaica. The punch in my left hand tastes divine.' IMAGE: India head coach Ravi Shastri. Photograph: Ravi Shastri/Twitter India head coach Ravi Shastri certainly knows how to celebrate......