By changing the nation's name from India to Bharat, would this landmass overnight lose the emotional and cultural linkage that had been built over generations, centuries and millennia, asks N......
Versatile singer, actor and music composer S P Balasubrahmanyam hailed as "singing moon" by his millions of fans was laid to rest at his farm house near Chennai on Saturday with a 24-gun......
Hindu Americans have said they are appalled by the recent comments made by Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum -- the darling of the conservative evangelicals -- on the eve of last......
Hindu Americans have said that they are appalled by the recent comments made by Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum -- the darling of the conservative evangelicals -- on the eve of last......
The government must give up its neo-liberal polices and obsession with GDP growth and shift its ideological centre of gravity leftwards, argues Praful Bidwai. It's no aberration that the first......
In the late 1980s I received an impressive missive from the Crown Prince of Bhutan inviting me to a conference, which would seek to provide measures of a country's level of happiness to replace the......
'You could be out of sight, out of mind, but it may take just one song to bring you back and to let you know that your audience is still rooting for you.' Photograph: Kind courtesy Mahalakshmi......
Gore rang pe na itna gumaan kar... Dhoop mein nikla na karo roop ki rani gora rang kaala na pad jaaye... Gori hain kalaaiyan tu laade mujhe hari hari chooriyan... Gore gore chehre pe kaala kaala......
Unnecessary songs mar the narrative flow, writes S Saraswathi. Despite what the title suggests director Suseenthiran’s latest offering Maaveeran Kittu is not based on Liberation Tigers......
Meen Kuzhambum Mann Paanaiyum is not worth your time, S Saraswathi advises. Son of veteran actors Jayaram and Parvathy, Kalidas was 10 years old when he won the National Award for his......
Rekka overdoses on action, feels S Saraswathi. Hero-intro songs, gravity-defying stunts or romantic numbers picturized in exotic locations in a Vijay Sethupathi movie seem almost impossible to......
Kimi Raikkonen’s return to the Italian Prancing Horse was immanent. And when it happened on Tuesday there was no surprise but questions rose over the place of Fernando Alonso at Ferrari. Now,......