His fingers flew, fluttered and floated in quicksilver changes of raga and rhythm, drumming up music and magic. IMAGE: Tabla Maestro Ustad Zakir Hussain. Photograph: ANI Photo Zakir Hussain was......
'At her last concert on March 26, she bowed down to the artistes and to the audience and said, "Main chahti hoon ki baar baar koi na koi is stage mein bulayein aur main gaati rahoon." But that was......
Eminent Kashmiri poet Rehman Rahi has won the prestigious Jnanpith award for the year 2004. Rahi was selected for the award by a panel comprising noted personalities like Mahashweta Devi, C T......
When British expatriate Chris Page and Rwandan artist Gabriel Dusabe collaborated for a unique initiative in 2004, it came from their desire to help a poor community. Today over 300 orphaned......
In the long run, stockmarkets reflect the real economy. In the short run, they seem to have a life of their own. The factory worker who buys Tiger biscuits for his school-going daughter, or the......
Filmmaker Sai Paranjpye shares an amusing anecdote of Shabana Azmi's perfection in her memoir, A Patchwork Quilt: A Collage of My Creative Life. While filming Sparsh, the actress wished to know if......
Sukanya Verma quizzes you to find out just how much you know about the movies. It's time to take a quiz break! All you have to do is identify the Bollywood movie from the options listed below. You......
It's a pity that Randhir Kapoor got trapped in the image of a happy-go-lucky version of his father Raj Kapoor. There was so much more to him than the rumbustious, blustering, bumpkin image that he......
1997: A fast and furious year for Bollywood. Superstar Sridevi married producer Boney Kapoor and gave birth to her firstborn Janhvi. Shah Rukh Khan turned daddy when wife Gauri delivered Aryan.......
Among those who are deeply saddened by music composer Khayyam's passing is ghazal maestro Talat Aziz. "Khayyamsaab was like my father and he loved me like a son,' he tells Subhash K Jha,......