Javed Akhtar is a treasure chest, full of stories. Some of the stories may touch your heart, like his struggle to become a writer in Hindi cinema, and others, where people still don't recognise him, even after all these years.
Glimpses of a memorable Sunday morning at the Mumbai Marathon captured by Hitesh Harisinghani/Rediff.com.
V Vaidyanathan -- managing director and CEO of IDFC First Bank -- is considered one of India's most astute bankers. But who know he was such a good singer?
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde was in element at the Gateway of India.
'It has been three years since the last Marathon so there is a tendency to go all out, but you got to ease back into it more gently.'
The role of a banker in the institutional framework is very different than any other kind of institutions, and along with that comes huge responsibility, Uday Kotak said, explaining in the video how he got into banking.
He came to Mumbai with only 27 paise in his pocket on October 4, 1964.
'They've done great service to Indian cricket, they are extremely fit and both have a lot of cricket left in them.'
'The decision to supply free food grains is not an economically sound decision because the government will find it very difficult in future to charge anything for food grains.'
'My son is not against anybody. For him Desh Prem is more important than anything else in life'
'The BJP had a big threat from the Congress in J&K, therefore they were threatened by us.'
If you're in Mumbai, go visit India's tallest fully decorated natural Christmas tree.
Rohit Shetty gets so busy giving us a social message that he forgets to add a 'tadka' -- also called 'entertainment' -- to Cirkus, sighs Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
It is a perfect city car for both your daily office commute and fun weekend drives.
Ajay Devgn has been the chief guest for many events. But this one is close to his heart.
'Apparently, the EC deals with such communications as mine in a summary manner, and it has no intention to conduct its affairs, as a quasi-judicial authority ought to.'
'Kejriwal tries to project that his party is not Hindu virodhi.'
Deepika Padukone's Lady Singham swag walk was not the only Current Laga that the media experienced at the song launch of Rohit Shetty's Cirkus.
'Muslims know they cannot defeat the BJP, why then come in its firing range?' 'And they know, ultimately it is the BJP MLA who is going to get elected and only he or she can do their work.' 'The BJP may do a different kind of politics for Muslims, but when they sit in the chair they work for Muslims too.'
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