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10 Year Old Indian Wins Top Photo Contest

The Natural History Museum's annual competition and exhibition, Wildlife Photographer of the Year, is the longest-running and most prestigious nature and wildlife photography competition. It has......

FREEZE! Animals on the Prowl

If you thought human beings were expressive, take a look at these animals; they beat us hollow! And, to prove that, it is that time of the year again -- The Wildlife Photographer of the Year......

India's cry for water falls on deaf ears

India's water future remains very bleak.The monsoon season, which once extended to 4 months, is now down to less than 30 days of heavy rain.Rashme Sehgal reports. IMAGE: River streams in......

My father created the SFF, I commanded it

Major General Sujan Singh Uban, a legendary veteran of the Second World War, was a natural choice to raise, train and command the Special Frontier Force and mould them into a well oiled fighting......

Why he wants to track humankind's journey around the world

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Salopek is on an intercontinental journey of 24,000 miles, tracing humankind's movement out of Africa right down to South America.Nikita Puri traces his passage......

Land Rover Defender Hybrid is here!

After waiting for decades, the Land Rover Defender is now available in India. And this time, in its newly launched, more capable, Hybrid avatar. IMAGE: The 2020 Land River Defender. Photograph:......

Once an export hub, Tirupur is today a ghost town

The streets of Tirupur are deserted, most of the shops are closed. A passer by explains, "The shops are shut due to the bandh in Madurai where 6 people were killed in communal violence." Another......

Billionaire hotel moguls

Billionaires own stocks, bonds, real estate and art. Many also have their own collectible cars, mega-yachts and private planes. And some own hotels. Nice ones.Hotels come in handy, and they can......

China: Empty roads, jammed rivers

A few weeks ago, driving back from the industrial town of Huzhou to Shanghai in China, I called for a stop. We had been driving for a good hour on a four-lane highway, passing mostly small towns......

Kolkata gets a new US resident

Ghosts of the past must have crowded in on the US Consul General, Henry V Jardine (whose name has a commercial resonance from here to Hong Kong, but that may be coincidence), and Ramesh Bajpai,......

'Irrfan never felt he was a master of acting'

'For him to suddenly leave the way that he did, it shattered me.''It took me a long, long, time to come to terms with it.''Because the loss of such a friend can destroy you.''The loss was and......

The BEST Indian Films of 2021

Aseem Chhabra lists his favourite Indian films of 2021. Aseem's Best International Films of 2021 In the second year of the pandemic when movie theatres remained closed for an extended period of......

10 Films You Must Watch

Aseem Chhabra picks 10 movies that amazed him at the international film festival in El Gouna, Egypt. Last month as film people from around the world traveled to El Gouna, an Egyptian resort by the......

Nirvana Inn review

The supernatural element is Nirvana Inn's biggest triumph, says Moumita Bhattacharjee. Nirvana Inn is a psychological wonder which plays tricks with your minds. The film is not devoid of flaws but......

Ghost Stories review

'Dibakar Banerjee isn't simply giving a particular fascistic regime the finger.''Here, he wants to offer us a preview of the invisible forces and human tendencies that drive fascism, blind......

I won't become a tennis ghost, says Federer

IMAGE: Roger Federer said he would not disappear like Swedish great Bjorn Borg, who is captaining Europe against the Rest of the World this week at the Laver Cup. Photograph: Julian Finney/Getty......

Abs that Bollywood will envy!

Body-building and the traditional form of kushti (wrestling) reign supreme in this little village near Mumbai.Will Salman Khan. whose farm house is not too far away, drop by for some tips? Text......

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