Shivaji made sure that his soldiers respected the sanctity of mosques and the Quran Sharif to ensure that his fight against the Mughals did not become fight against Islam, explains Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
'...Your confidence.' 'You go through this emotional roller coaster ride, which affects your partner as well.'
'If you don't have children, that's also a problem.' 'There's no right way to live because everybody has an opinion about your personal life, and how you should live.' 'You have to listen to them, unless you can pick a fight with everyone.'
'He wrote a letter to his parents every night, and read the Gita every morning before going about his work.'
Sukanya Verma handpicks 10 new interesting movies and shows from India and abroad just for you.
Shatrughan Sinha, Shabana Azmi laud the move.
'That very brand name comes in the way of people expecting something different from me.'
'The richness of Buddhism makes it possible for us to create these stories and to interpret them.'
Amazon Prime Video has doubled its content investments in India and announced as many as 41 new titles in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and English, thereby throwing an open challenge to their streaming competitor, Netflix.
Start-ups don't care that mad-money funding comes to a hard stop after an IPO, observes Debashis Basu. As a listed entity, corporate actions have to take the interests of all shareholders, especially minority shareholders, into account. So far, we are not seeing any sign of it, observes Debashis Basu.
We pay homage to Bhanu Athaiya by celebrating her best creations.
'My grandfather O P Ralhan passed away when I was very young.' 'When I told my dad that I wanted to study films, he told me he did not have any contacts in the film industry.' 'He told me to finish my business undergrad and then chase my dreams.'
Aseem Chhabra picks Indian and other South Asian gems at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Indrani laughed loudly. She looked like the cat that got the cream, smiling gaily. Vaihayasi Pande Daniel reports from the Sheena Bora murder trial.
'Cyrus was always very different. He would think before acting.'
Rajkummar Rao is solid in what we've come to recognise as strictly Ayushmann Khurrana territory, observes Sukanya Verma.
'...it didn't make sense to me.' 'If the character was not adding (to the story), I wasn't interested.' 'The reason why I chose to act is because of the way it makes me feel when I'm acting, not for the fame and money.'
'When Zubeida came, everybody loved me and I got a slew of offers of the same kind.' 'People started saying, "Aap nayi Aruna Irani ban jayegi".'
'We expect the bull run to continue until economic growth continues.'
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The creation of the Amul brand and its famous mascot gave a rural revolution a durable competitive edge.
Indira Gandhi valued Rahul Gandhi's 'grit and determination' and often considered him mature enough to be taken into confidence on subjects she avoided discussing even with his parents when he was barely 14, according to a new book.
Sukanya Verma on The Zoya Factor in Indian cinema.
Monsoon is here, and time to bring out the chhatris.
'When I came to Bombay to be an actor, producers and directors looked at me as though I was from another planet.'
'Fashion changes fast and if you are not keeping up you're getting left behind,' design diva Anita Dongre tells Pavan Lall.
'And he was really trying just to do the best by the shareholders, and by the laws of India.'
Dulquer celebrates a precious birthday... Sonu donates blood...
The University of Pennsylvania has emerged as the topmost university in the world, as per Youth Incorporated magazine's Global University rankings.
'Somewhere, I have to be true to myself. At this point in life, I am more interested in human drama.'
Dilip Kumar 'got annoyed and was about to leave the stage before things were brought under control'.
'A well made masala film will never go out of fashion. Pushpa proved it yet again.'
'How can so many misfortunes fall on one beautiful family?'
Ajit Balakrishnan on learning from past technology revolutions.
Anurag Kashyap's classic Black Friday is a must watch film.
Arundhuti Dasgupta maps a trail from the southernmost tip to its suburbs.
'I could see the silhouettes of three men on the sixth floor.' 'I pointed them out to the NSG personnel standing beside me and suggested they take them out.' 'They did not have the clearance to fire.'
'The way the society functions, I don't know, they are more concerned about animals than humans.'
At the end of the six short stories, Feels Like Ishq is uneven yet watchable, feels Sukanya Verma.
Author-journalist Naresh Fernandes has won the 2012 Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize for Taj Mahal Foxtrot: The Story of Bombay's Jazz Age, an account of the city's thriving music scene between the 30s and 60s.
'There is a whole gang working against me.'
