Sai's Take: The Bengal tinder box

Violence has always been a fact of life in Bengal's politics; it is just that the faces have changed, the contesting ideologies have changed. What hasn't changed is the fact that parties have found......

Sai's Take: Missing T N Seshan

'Just as the monkey god needed a Jambavan to prod him into realising his superpowers, so did the poll panel need a poke from the Supreme Court into remembering it had an armoury of powers at its......

I Am Bihar: 'No one in my family knows what IIT is'

Their families are poor and do not know what IIT is, but these children dream of IIT and working for ISRO and NASA one day. One man and his family have helped 333 such children turn their dreams to......

BJP undergoes image makeover; forms 9 new committees

To involve workers in various social campaigns initiated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah has formed nine separate committees of senior leaders. The......

The REASON why Taapsee-Bhumi took up Saand Ki Aankh

Photograph: Kind courtesy Taapsee Pannu/Instagram "I really wanted to do a film where two heroines have an equal role," Taapsee Pannu said at the trailer launch of her new film, Saand Ki......

Here's what we can expect from Rajnikanth's politics

All this and more in Subhash K Jha's Bollywood Buzz. IMAGE: Soundarya Rajnikanth with her dad. Photograph: Kind courtesy Soundarya Rajnikanth/Twitter What does Rajinikanth want to do with Tamil......

Box Office: Jai GangaaJal gets poor response

The hits and misses of the week. Two films released this week. While Priyanka Chopra's much-awaited Jai GangaaJal did not receive much appreciation at the box office, Zubaan (which......

Box Office: Aligarh gets poor opening

The hits and misses of the week. Manoj Bajpayee-starrer Aligarh may have been hugely praised by critics but cine-goers chose to ignore it. Tere Bin Laden: Dead Or Alive failed to cash in on......