'India's gambit is truly the venture of this century,' says Mira Kamdar.
Deepa Mehta's film has made it big, but the Oscar win is another challenge.
Nominations and awards benefit films in many ways.
British director Paul Greengrass has bought the rights to Rajiv Chandrasekaran's acclaimed book, Imperial Life in the Emerald City.
The actor's new film Guru has become a hit in India and abroad.
Both filmmakers want the title Avatar for their next film.
Kiran Desai on being a global celebrity.
Mehtani is the first Indian to receive the award, for consistently excelling in restaurant quality and service.
Freddie Mercury's biopic will be backed by Robert De Niro.
The Yash Raj film gets bad reviews and box office collections overseas.
'Osama bin Laden's version of Islam is a much more central, plausible version of Islam than people tend to acknowledge,' says Sam Harris.
Would Americans have endorsed the war of terror if they were not so scared of death, wonders George Soros in his latest book.
Six weeks after winning the Man Booker Prize for her second novel, The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai is hardly out of the news.
Hrithik Roshan's latest could beat Shah Rukh Khan's Don.
The animated film tops the US box office, James Bond comes second.
On Sunday, 32 Americans from campuses across the country were named as Rhodes scholars, who will study at Oxford University starting next year.
Happy Feet is fast becoming a big hit in the US.
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