Taking the Mahabharata into the digital age

Dr Bulbul Tiwari, a postdoctoral fellow in the humanities at Stanford University, has taken on the onerous task of creating an online, digital, audio-visual encyclopedia of the Mahabharata. On May......

'India is full of beautiful, talented young women'

Natasha Arora, who won the Miss India USA Pageant besides the Miss Beautiful Skin and Best Talent awards recently, is a third-year student at the University of Texas-Austin."I didn't expect to......

Teens shine at SAYA! annual do

"I'm not perfect," cried a diminutive girl in a hijab, one of a group of teens performing in Minds of the Misunderstood, a skit about love and expectations performed at the South Asian Youth......

Rail cultural extravaganza arrives in Mumbai

Union Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee's pet initiative 'Sankriti Yatra,' a cultural extravangza, has arrived in Mumbai as a two-day event starting on Wednesday. After taking over as the railway......

PIX: The A to Z of Hindi Cinema

'No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety.' Latin author Publilius Syrus could well be describing the allure of Hindi films.  Dancing stars, superheroes, historical romances, literary......

Review: Aravaan is brilliant

Pavithra Srinivasan feels Aravaan and painstakingly documents the period's history and isa must-watch film.One of the biggest stumbling-blocks that any period film faces is getting the feel of the......

Review: Merina is worth a watch

Pavithra Srinivasan feels that Tamil film Merina beautifully captures one of the the liveliest beaches in all of India.With the classic Pasanga, Director Pandiraj proved just how much at home he......

Review: Bodyguard is strictly a one-time watch

Bodyguard has seen two remakes in Tamil and Hindi after the Malayalam original and all of them have been successful. The third remake in Telugu, starring Venkatesh and Trisha, directed by Gopichand......

Spectacular opening to IPL-4

A spectacular and vibrant opening ceremony, showcasing a dash of Bollywoood-style entertainment, marked the launch of the fourth edition of the IPL, the Twenty20 extravaganza which has gained......

Phelps passes Spitz with golden eight

Is Phelps the greatest Olympian? Have your say!Michael Phelps won an Olympic record-breaking eighth gold at one Games on Sunday in Beijing to beat fellow-American swimmer Mark Spitz's seven from......