'I'm a rascal, I'm going to play a paramahansa?!'
The top posts on social media from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
Ethnic designer AD Singh tells you how to look after your saris and preserve them so that you can get a lifetime's wear out of them.
Ethnic designer AD Singh shows you how to drape a sari in two different ways so as to show off an ornate blouse.
Designer AD Singh shows you two twists on the traditional sari drape.
A look at the top tweets from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
Lootera is a gorgeous, gorgeous film, one that uses its period setting affectionately, with loving detail, and not exploitatively, as our cinema is wont to do.
Bharati Dutt witnessed life-changing events that shaped India on the threshold of freedom. Her memories are an account of how ordinary Indians saw India change.
'Madhur Bhandarkar found five girls, who are poles apart but make a lovely cocktail when mixed together.' Say hello to Calendar girl Kyra Dutt.
...But ends up being oddly moving, says Sreehari Nair.
'Janhvi came into our lives thanks to Manish Malhotra.' 'He knew Janhvi for a long time and asked Karan to meet her.' 'He said, she has been doing natak from the age of four!' 'I made her do scenes from Badri just to see what she can do.' 'When I saw the scenes and how she responds to directions, I was convinced that I had found Parathvi.'
'It was fun trying to regulate ourselves and keep it in the family zone and yet, be tongue-in-cheek.'
A look at the top 10 tweets from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
As the MAMI film festival kicks off, Aseem Chhabra picks the must watch Indian movies.
'If everybody knows your name, that's success. Isn't that what society tells us? I experienced all that at a very young age. So how come I wasn't happy?' Lisa Ray wonders.
'One reason why Suchitra Sen quit acting in the 1970s was the mediocrity that overtook Bengali cinema. Many of the directors she knew well and felt comfortable working with passed away. The scripts offered to her were awful,' Moon Moon Sen talks about her famous mother, the legendary Suchitra Sen, who passed away on January 17.
'Our only child. A Communist.' 'There was an encounter by the police inside this room, five years ago. He was shot in one arm, but managed to escape.' 'Missing since then. May Jesus keep him alive.' A revealing excerpt from Asim Mukhopadhyay's Half Man: A Novel On The Naxal Movement.
The top posts on social media from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
At some point, it became evident to the audience that a subtle musical duel was taking place. By the time the faster taans started, the notes had become sharp arrows shot with the intention to annihilate. A revealing excerpt from Namita Devidayal's The Sixth String Of Vilayat Khan.
A look at the top tweets from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
Former editor of Femina magazine, Sathya Saran looks back at the Miss India pageant that changed the lives of two young women.
A look at the top tweets from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
'Kishore Kumar lived like a king and knew that he could get away with anything. It's as simple as that.'
'Of all the PMs of India, I had the closest relationships with Morarji and Rajiv.' Mark Tully, the most famous foreign correspondent in India, remembers some encounters with prime ministers, dictators and militants.
Abhishek has been posting fond memories and interesting anecdotes on Instagram, recapping his #RoadTo20.
Samrat & Co. might be about an extraordinarily observational man's fight against crime but as far as cinema goes, this film is a crime against the genre.
'Many tourists are keen to break the law and see the tribals. But what difference would it make? They are humans like us. We do not like intruders, neither do they. Very little of their homes is left, so we might as well let them be,' says Chintan Purohit.
'Here was a man who played a major part in helping the Bengalis of East Pakistan create a new nation, secured the merger of Sikkim into the Indian dominion and built R&AW into a formidable outfit, comparable to the best in the world.' Rameshwar Nath Kao shunned the limelight, hated to be photographed and preferred to work behind the scenes. A revealing excerpt from Nitin A Gokhale's much awaited book, R N Kao: Gentleman Spymaster.
From Mathura to Udaipur, we tell you the places to head to this month.
Pritish Nandy's interview of Kishore Kumar for The Illustrated Weekly Of India was a stunner.
Don't make these basic mistakes while cooking Western or continental food.
'Why exclude those who are curious about our faith but not born into it, to experience the temple?'
As Venezuelans continue to flee the starvation, crime and the horrific inflation that continues to mark the worst crisis it has ever faced, Radha Biswas looks back at a devastated country she continues to love deeply.
If Kishore Kumar were alive today, he would have turned 90 on August 4.
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The stories in this anthology range from breathtaking to borderline bizarre.
'Usually, the Left backed the Congress and other 'secular' parties on the justification of keeping the BJP out. In Bengal, the alliance targets a truly secular rival,' says Shekhar Gupta.
Kalki Koechlin talks about her upcoming projects, marriage and much more!
Whether the Udta Punjab makers cave in remains to be seen but here's a list of the ones who did.
'After having rejected and sometimes also being rejected by 32 men in my unsuccessful journey to matrimony, I prayed that it would be love at first sight with motherhood,' says Priya Ramanathan.
Even though Note 4 happens to be a marquee device, it faces stiff competition from iPhone 6 Plus and Sony Xperia Z3. Having said that, we bring you features of this phone that sets it apart from the competition.
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