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Historic first: Indian NGO 'Educate Girls' wins Magsaysay award

'Educate Girls' was founded in 2007 by Safeena Husain, a graduate of the London School of Economics, then working in San Francisco, who decided to return home to India to take on the challenge of......

The Legend That Was Pritish Nandy

He was colourful. He was dramatic. He was The Master of His Craft. There never will be an editor as versatile as Pritish Nandy, notes Nikhil Lakshman. IMAGE: Pritish Nandy, Editor Extraordinaire,......

Villagers opposing Barsu refinery project meet Sharad Pawar, raise concerns

A delegation of people opposing a proposed oil refinery project at Barsu in Maharashtra's Ratnagiri district called on Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar in Mumbai on Sunday. IMAGE: A......

Film festival sparks row at Odisha varsity, two movies dropped from line up

Satyajit Ray's Pather Panchali was among the movies that were about to get dropped from the line up of a film festival at Ravenshaw University in Cuttack, which ran into rough waters after......

So long, Nemai Ghosh; Goodbye, Satish Gujral

Nemaida's misfortune in life was to be known as Satyajit Ray's 'Boswell'; History will remember Satish Gujral as a renaissance man whose imprint over New Delhi is huge.Kishore Singh salutes two......

Zomato gets inspired by Satyajit Ray film

The Gurugram-based company had acquired Lucknow-based drone manufacturer and consultant start-up TechEagle in December, to expand food delivery using drones. In the climax of Satyajit Ray’s......

The dancing legends wowing India

Bharata Natyam legends Shanta and V P Dhananjayan discover they are a national sentation after their Vodafone ads.Nikita Puri encounters a couple who believe in breaking moulds. IMAGE: Shanta and......

Tagore works available for Android users

The task to develop the App took almost three years to be completed by a team of experts including an IIT professor, one from the Indian Statistical Institute, he said. Here's good news for Tagore......

Om Puri's Life In Pictures

Om Puri would have been 75 in October. We look back at his early years through these 16 pictures from his life. Photograph: Kind courtesy Nandita Puri Born in Ambala into a family of modest means,......

Pather Panchali@70: Beautiful, Broken People

Seventy years after Pather Panchali released on August 26, 1955, we finally get it.Shuttling between the village of Boral and a studio in Calcutta, caught between worrying about the next purse of......

'My Father Bimal Roy's Time Has Come'

'When you are a pioneer and someone who's put on a pedestal, but then the pedestal gets dusty, people don't look at the statue anymore.''They would say, 'Yes, yes, of course I know Bimal Roy. He......

The Amjad Khan You Never Knew

The second Sunday after Sholay's release, Amjad and Shehla had taken Shadaab to Juhu beach.They were strolling leisurely when, to Shehla's shock, he suddenly picked up their son, grabbed her hand......

'Corruption Is No Longer A Bad Word'

'When India opened its doors to the world, moving away from an agrarian to a market economy, everything, whether life or love, was commodified.' IMAGE: Nana Patekar and Rekha in Yatra. In the......

RoundGlass Punjab clinch historic I-League; Karnataka bag Santosh Trophy

IMAGE: RoundGlass Punjab FC won the title with a game to spare. Photograph: RoundGlass Punjab FC/Twitter RoundGlass Punjab on Saturday entered their name in the history books by winning the......

India becoming a Global Chess Superpower

Since 2012, 44 Indians have been anointed as grandmasters -- the highest achievement in chess, points out Arvind Subramanian, economist and former chief economic adviser to the government. IMAGE:......

Ranji roundup: J&K enter quarter-finals despite loss

IMAGE: Madhya Pradesh batsman Mihir Hirwani raises his bat after scoring half-century against Mumbai in the Ranji Trophy match at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on Saturday. Photograph: PTI Jammu......