Cinemas, theatres in Maha to reopen from Oct 22

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Saturday said cinema halls and drama theatres in the state will be permitted to operate from October 22 on the condition that they follow all the......

Jignesh Mevani is busy fighting the good fight

'I fight for anyone who is poor, marginalised or victimised.''If a Dalit factory owner is inflicting atrocities on his Brahmin worker, then I will fight for the poor Brahmin,' Jignesh Mevani tells......

Emergency was a windfall for the RSS

The Emergency greatly influenced the RSS' makeover from a fringe force in the Indian political imagination to one that could have its own man sworn in as prime minister in two decades' time.A......

Sheena Bora Murder trial: The mystery of the driver's phone calls

It is becoming more and more apparent that Shyamvar Rai is like an onion.And a pretty pungent one at that.As layer after layer of his life gets peeled off, in full view of the court, new layers of......

What Shahid Finds 'Really Tough'

IMAGE: Shahid Kapoor. Photograph: Hitesh Harisinghani/Rediff.com Shahid Kapoor packs in a lot of blood and gore in his new film, Bloody Daddy, directed by Ali Abbas Zafar (Tiger Zinda Hai,......

'Nitin Dada sounded absolutely fine'

'His time had not come, he went away before his time was up.' IMAGE: Nitin Chandrakant Desai, the well-known art director, committed death by suicide at his studio in Karjat. Photograph: Kind......

The BEST 200 Indian Films of the Decade

Aseem Chhabra picks the finest Indian films in the 2010-2019 decade. IMAGE: A scene from Bulbul Can Sing. As the second decade of the young century comes to an end, it is time to look at how......

Class of 1991: Celebrating 25 years of Urmila, Akshay, Raveena

25 years on, we see how these actors have fared. 1991. The year Sanjay Dutt hit big league with blockbusters like Sadak and Saajan. The year Amitabh Bachchan’s lippy request to Jumma in Hum......