It was Soni Somarajan's biggest dream -- to see himself as a proud member of the Indian Armed Forces. When Life brutally shattered that dream, he wove a new one.
The former Miss World has shaped the lives of many.
'It's like as if God was telling us that we have not spent time with each other despite being siblings, so now you have to spend time and talk.'
Today, the Ladakhis and Tibetans have been joined by the Sikhs, the Madrassis, the Garhwalis, the Rajputs, who are well trained psychologically and otherwise, to defend the nation, observes Claude Arpi.
Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich wants to build a legacy at the club that will last 100 years.
'What Nehru valued most of all was the attempted construction of a plural, open, and democratic polity working for change in the lives of all citizens,' says biographer Judith Brown.
'It will take me a while to process the meaning of the loss of a man who meant so much to me through my entire life,' says Aseem Chhabra.
'Though all civilisations to Malraux seemed equal, India was more equal than some,' says Oliver Todd.
The Mahatma rubs shoulders with nearly 55,000 people in the new Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday visited the Ramakrishna Mission, a branch of the Kolkata-based Belur Math, at the heart of the Bangladeshi capital on the second day of his two-day visit.
The Chelsea manager said the Champions League triumph with Porto last season was overshadowed by a death threat on the eve of the final.
Being a son of Nehru's dentist is not the only connection that Alvi has with India. He is yet another president whose family migrated to Pakistan from India after partition. His predecessors Mamnoon Hussain's family came from Agra and Pervez Musharraf's parents migrated from New Delhi.
Olympic fever is keeping tens of millions of Chinese awake and watching television into the early hours as their sports heroes leap to the top of the medal standings.
'He needed to speak to the women he wrote about. You can't just write your version of the honest truth in a relationship. Two people are involved and they both need to be aware of what will be put out in public.' Asha Parekh on Nawazuddin Siddiqui's memoir, An Ordinary Life.
In this lockdown, no matter how many similarities the memory dredges up from past events and associations, there is one thing that has no precedent: The isolation that it has imposed on people, reports Arundhuti Dasgupta.
If seven-times champion Roger Federer is to be stopped from advancing to the last 16, Mischa Zverev will have to do something to disturb his cool.
In the first of two extracts from a gripping new biography, Jasper Rees talks to those who know the Arsenal boss best - players, coaches, and the people of the village where he grew up.
Lala Amarnath was the first Test captain of independent India in 1948.\n\n
Madhuri praised him in Sinhalese, saying, 'Gondhak hundai (Very good)', which instantly made Sanath smile.
'We felt like we were a part of something bigger than just a film.'
A lowdown on what's happening in Hollywood.
Master batsman Sachin Tendulkar says if you want to make it big in cricket follow 'The Wall'.
Books like Sunil Khilnani's Incarnations: India in 50 Lives, simple and straightforward though they appear, are instead powerful arguments for complexity, for empathy, and for curiosity
The polling body said any such film that subserves purpose of any political entity or individual should not be displayed in the electronic media.
'There is a group who want to internally damage the Congress and they may be hand in glove with the BJP.'
With an unexpected new turn in Kashmir, an ominous Afghanistan, a reliably unpredictable Trump, and an unfathomable reversal with RCEP, Modi may have to reinvent his character, suggests Ambassador B S Prakash.
'A look at the winners and losers tells us that the topic of the film is but one factor in ensuring success.'
There are several books that Aakar Patel wishes were being written but aren't. Fortunately, there's plenty coming up this year that he's eagerly awaiting.
