'A friend of mine said she grew up not liking cricket. She hated cricket.' 'But she said when I was watching your film, I suddenly had a life-altering moment when I thought that if this is what cricket does to you, then have I missed out on a large part of my life?' 'I got tears in my eyes when I read that.'
'We are losing the battle of secularism, but we have not lost.'
As he struggles in hospital, I wonder why anyone, especially someone who was not even born when The Satanic Verses was published, would want to harm a 75-year old man and a literary treasure, wonders Subhash K Jha.
The dinner Jill Biden and her husband US President Joe Biden hosted for Indian prime minister Narendra Modi, June 22, at the White House brought together, Indians and Americans from so many firmaments.
A look at the top tweets from your Bollywood celebrities.
Atul Kasbekar on the making of the Kingfisher Swimsuit Calendar 2018.
'My smile was the biggest reason that my wife got married to me,' Jay Bhanushali tells us.
'Would you want to bring kids into a world that could run out of drinking water before they reach adulthood?'
'Not since the time when my Devdas went to Cannes have I felt this level of enthusiasm for my cinema being honoured internationally.'
Lalit Modi had gained in prominence and it was all evident from his high-flying lifestyle
'All the guys in this country were stuck in the 'alpha' for the longest time.' 'They were told not to cry, be the man in the house.' 'I wanted to touch upon that vulnerability and innocence that is still alive in men.'
Medieval heroes, cursed heroes, monsters, scamsters, there's no dearth of action on OTT this week, Sukanya Verma tells us.
The enormous structured global advertising machinery that surrounds every football game on the planet today? Pele was perhaps single-handedly responsible for all of it. By just being brilliant, captivating crowds, and behaving like a being from the future, doing things that STILL provoke oohs and aahs from watchers. Vaibhav Raghunandan salutes the Incomparable Pele.
We've never, ever been confined to our homes for so many days. What has the experience been like? Tell us!
On the actress' fourth death anniversary, Subhash K Jha selects his favourites.
Breadcrumbing is when you send flirty hints with no intentions of moving forwards in a relationship.
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'I'm 79 + now, and I've been doing all this since my late 20s.' 'Sometimes the ideological war extends to the home as well.' 'Many nights I couldn't sleep when someone close to me uttered the smallest insult.' 'It would cause me a lot of pain. But one has to be honest to oneself.'
B-town celebs spotted at Global Indian Music Academy awards.
Sukanya Verma makes a brand new one just for you.
'Depicting the genocide of 3 lakh #KashmiriHindus cannot be called vulgar.'
'I am glad people are talking about Atrangi Re, good or bad. I'd be worried if they had nothing to say.'
The supermodel uses fashion to send across a social message to her fans.
Whether it is Nargis in Mother India or Nirupa Roy in Deewaar, Mama's a scenestealer while Dad is just a shadow. There are films that have explored the Dad's character with tender affection
'When you're the son of Indian immigrants, the chaos that creates in your family and your community, will trump anything else, always.'
'It is not inconceivable to me that a strong leader can come to power with the consent of the people, with democratic sanction, go berserk with that democratic sanction and bypass some of our Constitutional guarantees,' Vinod Mehta tells Saisuresh Sivaswamy.
Author Natasha Badhwar explains her love-hate relationship with writing in her latest book Immortal for a Moment.
Congress says K Chandrashekhar Rao backstabbed it; Chandrababu Naidu detests him.
'To keep laughing is the most important thing in life.'
India has much to be proud of and celebrate. But there is also much that is wrong, much that looks dangerous. Employment, current account deficit, rural distress, agricultural productivity are all in deep crisis, points out Shekhar Gupta.
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Moral of the story: Caveat emptor, when you are talking to HR.
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The columnist attacks Bollywood's pretty young things in her latest column.
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Arguing his bail plea in the riots conspiracy case before additional sessions Judge Amitabh Rawat, his lawyer referred to the supplementary charge sheet filed in the case and said that the police wished to paint every accused with the same brush while adding tadka (flavour) to it.
Gurmehar lost her father Captain Mandeep Sing in the 1999 Kargil War at the age of 2. Her video, posted by Voice of Ram, is the story of her personal struggle with hate and her realisation that Pakistan didn't kill her father; war did.
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