By Sugandha Rawal New Delhi, Aug 6 (IANS) All of 20, “Spider-Man: Homecoming” actress Zendaya is in no rush to grow older. She says child actors are often in a hurry to “grow up” in…
By Vikas Datta No great civilisation is without an epic, or two, whose importance is not limited to just reciting their particular creation myth and a gloriously golden past. Nor does their influence stop at…
By Jaideep Sarin Chandigarh, Aug 6 (IANS) Come September and a young man from Punjab could well be on his way to literally singing the American Dream. A song, composed, written and sung by Punjab-born…
By Tridib Baparnash Coimbatore, Aug 6 (IANS) Upcoming racer Chittesh Mandody’s journey on the fast lane started from his ancestral garage in Kolhapur to the Kari Motor Speedway here, where he swept all the three…
By Sugandha Rawal New Delhi, Aug 5 (IANS) American singer and songwriter Meghan Trainor’s lyrics “Yeah, my momma she told me don’t worry about your size” aptly sums up the Indian fashion industry today, given…
By Arundhuti Banerjee Mumbai, Aug 4 (IANS) During his days as a junior artiste in showbiz, he was told he can’t be cast as they would need “extra light” to make him “visible”. Nawazuddin Siddiqui,…
By Saket Suman New Delhi, Aug 4 (IANS) As talk of war and violence — all that Mahatma Gandhi stood against — gains prominence with every passing day, a Gandhian scholar has urged that the…
By Radhika Bhirani New Delhi, Aug 4 (IANS) Indian filmmakers are living in “absurd and scary” times, given how they don’t know what the “rules” really are, says Vikramaditya Motwane, who is one-fourth of the…
By Sugandha Rawal New Delhi, Aug 4 (IANS) For Ranveer Brar, the gastronomical story across the globe is ever-evolving, and he feels it is important to keep exploring new flavours and cuisines to stay relevant…
By Vikas Datta Title: The Retreat of Western Liberalism; Author: Edward Luce; Publisher: Little, Brown/Hachette India; Pages: 240; Price: Rs 599 “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was…
New Delhi, Aug 4 (IANS) Flick through the story of a young man whose struggles come to an end with the growing spiritual influences in his life; read a mysterious tale around a lost woman….
By Prashant Sood Kathmandu, Aug 3 (IANS) It is a restaurant perhaps unlike any other in the world with its walls dotted with signatures of those who have scaled Mount Everest, the world’s highest peak….
By Somrita Ghosh New Delhi, Aug 3 (IANS) At a time when the English publishing industry is booming in the country, writers in Indian languages claim that it is difficult for them to make a…
By Natalia Ningthoujam New Delhi, Aug 3 (IANS) In India anything “free” works best, but Sony Music India decided to take a bold step by asking listeners to pay, for a limited time, to listen…
By Haricharan Pudipeddi Chennai, Aug 2 (IANS) After playing a king in the “Baahubali” franchise and a naval officer in “Ghazi”, actor Rana Daggubati says he keeps the excitement meter ticking by finding something new…
By Porisma P. Gogoi Bath (UK), Aug 2 (IANS) “I like our situation very much,” wrote English novelist Jane Austen in a letter to her sister Cassandra describing the profound impact that Bath had upon…
By Shivani Chaskar New Delhi, Aug 2 (IANS) From Johnny Lever’s “Johny Aala Re”, Navjot Singh Sidhu and Shekhar Suman judging “Laughter Challenge” to the popular “Comedy Nights with Kapil” — comedy in India, like…
By Saket Suman New Delhi, Aug 2 (IANS) That creative juices of sublime writing flowed through the veins of late writer Khushwant Singh is reflected in the reverence with which he is read even after…
By Vikas Datta His impressive height, his smooth, deep voice and bright but haunting blue eyes made him well-suited to play larger than life but unconventional characters. And Peter O’Toole did go on to deliver…
By Quaid Najmi Mumbai, Aug 1 (IANS) The country’s commercial capital has a new playground for its biggest achievers, its ultra-high networth individuals (HNIs) and jet-setters. The Indus Club is an oasis of luxury and…