Swachh Bharat Not A Game Changer

If we as citizens, do not take ownership of public places, public facilities and public conveniences, Swachh Bharat will remain just a hollow slogan, notes Biswajit Dasgupta. Kindly note the image......

Ram Vilas Paswan's Final Throw Of Dice

Ram Vilas Paswan was no fool. He knew very well about the ownership tussle going on beneath this veneer of congeniality. At all costs, he wanted to keep the lid on the family drama. He did not want......

Carnatic Music Goes From Raga To Rage

They all seem to forget that the Music Academy is as much an independent institution as T M Krishna is an individual musician. In drawing those red lines for the Academy management, they do not......

Why Modi Should Thank Indira Gandhi

If Indira Gandhi hadn't targeted the RSS, Narendra Modi wouldn't be sitting pretty with his second majority and looking at a third, asserts Shekhar Gupta. IMAGE: Narendra Modi at the foundation......

Why Did Kiran Rao Struggle?

'I was very keen to make another film and I was dying to say action and cut and get back into creating characters and creating worlds.''But I just didn't have a script I was happy with.''I was......

Pankaj Tripathi Wants To Invite You To...

'Why not make plays more popular, so that people from all corners of society come and watch?' IMAGE: Pankaj Tripathi is the Rang Doot or Festival Ambassador of this year's Bharat Rang Mahotsav.......

'We all need a little piece of utopia in our life'

'This was a film, a story that had never been told before.' IMAGE: Koji Yakusho in Perfect Days. For the last four-and-a-half decades German film-maker Wim Wenders has been making compassionate......

Can India Win Another Oscar This Year?

'We're not looking at the importance of men standing up for women. And that, to me, is the power of the film.' IMAGE: A scene from To Kill A Tiger. Delhi-born Nisha Pahuja's film To Kill a Tiger......

GT Vs SRH: Who Bowled The Best Spell?

The trend of home dominance continues in the IPL! Gujarat Titans, capitalising on the familiar conditions in Ahmedabad, secured a convincing seven wicket victory over the Sunrisers Hyderabad. The......

How 'Guru Gary' is using cricket to keep slum kids away from drugs

Photograph: Andrew Couldridge Livepic via Reuters Notorious for drugs and crime and afflicted by large-scale poverty, the Khayelitsha township in Cape Town is better known for being one of the......

2nd Test: Should India Continue With Gill?

IMAGE: Shubman Gill is bowled by Marco Jansen during India's second innings during the first Test against South Africa in Centurion. Photograph: BCCI   Once again, India's batting came undone......

Ambanis Host IOC Chief At Antilia

IMAGE: Nita Ambani and Mukesh Ambani with International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach at Antilia. Photograph: ANI/X   Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani and Nita Ambani,......

Shocking! India's No. 1 tennis player at break-point!

'I don't have anything in savings. I am just breaking even. I can not say I live a very good life or where I say I don't need to work.' IMAGE: Sumit Nagal is not saving enough money for himself......