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Kalki: The Revolutionary Writer Behind PS 1

Gowri Ramnarayan explores the world of Kalki Krishnamurthy whose magnificent novel Ponniyin Selvan has inspired Mani Ratnam's latest film PS I. IMAGE: Director Mani Ratnam, third from right, with......

REWIND: The best PHOTOS from the week gone by

Fourteen photos from events that defined the world in the week gone by. Tattoo enthusiast Lauren Brock poses to display her body art work during the International London Tattoo Convention in east......

Why the RSS and BJP are the true champions of our democracy

Ironically, it was the members of the BJP (which the Indian press loves to dub as fascist) who resisted the assault on democracy and were jailed for 18 months. The RSS too played a stellar role in......

Has the time come for women to take their foot off the alcohol pedal?

What do we need to do to ensure that a woman's celebratory "cheers" do not become someone else's tears -- a few hours later, asks Malavika Sangghvi For reasons hitherto unexplored, the image of a......

The city of whispering walls

Did any of these people who proclaim to be Sunanda Pushkar's friends do any thing else but listen at the time that they were faced with their friend's anguish, asks Malavika Sangghvi Going by the......

Tata Nano could face rocky road ahead

When Ratan Tata unveiled his $2,500 "People's Car" last week, local press gushed that it was "the true spiritual successor of the Tin Lizzie" - Henry Ford's Model T that made the car affordable for......

A fantasy trip onboard the Deccan Odyssey

Anybody who's watched the 1974 whodunit Murder on the Orient Express or read The Mystery of the Blue Train will find it hard to resist the fantasy of a week on a luxuriously languorous train ride......

The piece of glass you're looking for

It's a moot point whether you would spend upwards of Rs 60,000 for a bottle of cognac ($1,400 in duty-free), but if it came in a flask that was original Baccarat, it's just possible that you might......

Jawan Review: SRK Shows Who's Baap!

Jawan springs a real surprise when it boldly and directly points fingers at the ineffective government and appeals to recognise the power of the finger and vote. Just months before the next......

Review: Emily In Paris 3: Cheesy!

It takes a different kind of genius to make a show so full of chirpy good cheer that it's hard to dislike, observes Deepa Gahlot. The creator of Emily In Paris is Darren Star, the man who thought......

Mera Wala Shah Rukh!

Happy birthday, Shah Rukh! There's just one Shah Rukh Khan. And still so many. Between the playing to the gallery entertainer, the hug and heart offering romantic, the smug can-do-it-all superhero,......

Panipat Review

'Panipat has all the meat for a political drama meets war movie. But in Ashutosh Gowariker's failure to process its complexity, the material never rises beyond a mediocre hurray to the Maratha......

What we learnt from Kareena-Sonam on Koffee With Karan

Big B's jedi skills, Bebo's Greater Kailash aunty antics and Deepika's red-hot moment for the ages, Sukanya Verma's super-filmi week marks a star-studded start to the year. Monday Hello 2017! New......

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