Born on 8 August 1896 in Sylhet district (now in Bangladesh) of undivided India, Swami Sivananda lost his mother and father at the age of six. Due to abject poverty, his beggar parents could feed him mainly boiled rice water during his childhood days.
'I find his sense of history astounding, not just history of film, but of life in general.' Another fascinating excerpt from Sangeeta Datta's book Shyam Benegal.
Is your love life under pressure? Are you troubled by your relationship? Get Ahead's Love Guru hosted a chat with readers on April 22 to help them deal with love problems. For those of you who missed it, here's the transcript.
Is your love life under pressure? Are you troubled by your relationship? Get Ahead's Love Guru hosted a chat with readers on November 12 to help them deal with love problems. For those of you who missed it, here's the transcript.
Is your love life under pressure? Are you troubled by your relationship? Get Ahead's Love Guru hosted a chat with readers on October 15 to help them deal with love problems. For those of you who missed it, here's the transcript.
'A democracy cannot mean the rule of just two people,' said one audience member, who recalled that he too had chanted 'Modi, Modi' when the PM had visited the USA. Many of those gathered admitted to having been Modi supporters. What had changed them was the growing concentration of power. Jyoti Punwani reports from New York.
Is your love life under pressure? Are you troubled by your relationship? Get Ahead's Love Guru hosted a chat with readers on March 11 to help them deal with love problems. For those of you who missed it, here's the transcript.
Perfect occasion to list 30 real-life educators whose unique methods, unwavering dedication or scholarly persona impressed us.
Perfect occasion to list 30 real-life educators whose unique methods, unwavering dedication or scholarly persona impressed us.
Is your love life under pressure? Are you troubled by your relationship? Get Ahead's Love Guru hosted a chat with readers on February 11 to help them deal with love problems. For those of you who missed it, here's the transcript.
Is your love life under pressure? Are you troubled by your relationship? Get Ahead's Love Guru hosted a chat with readers on August 20 to help them deal with love problems. For those of you who missed it, here's the transcript.
Ask rediffGURU and PF and MF expert Janak Patel your mutual fund and personal finance-related questions.
Rediff's Love Guru has answers to all your relationship problems.
Rediff's Love Guru has answers to all your relationship problems.
Rahul Rawail remembers his mentor Raj Kapoor.
Is your love life under pressure? Are you troubled by your relationship? Get Ahead's Love Guru hosted a chat with readers on December 10 to help them deal with love problems. For those of you who missed it, here's the transcript.
Is your love life under pressure? Are you troubled by your relationship? Get Ahead's Love Guru hosted a chat with readers on November 19 to help them deal with love problems. For those of you who missed it, here's the transcript.
In an online chat with Get Ahead readers on June 18, Love Guru answered their relationship queries. Here are the unedited excerpts:
Is your love life under pressure? Are you troubled by your relationship? Get Ahead's Love Guru hosted a chat with readers on November 5 to help them deal with love problems. For those of you who missed it, here's the transcript.
Is your love life under pressure? Are you troubled by your relationship? Get Ahead's Love Guru hosted a chat with readers on October 22 to help them deal with love problems. For those of you who missed it, here's the transcript.
Is your love life under pressure? Are you troubled by your relationship? Get Ahead's Love Guru hosted a chat with readers on July 30 to help them deal with love problems. For those of you who missed it, here's the transcript.
'In India, dating is a very personal thing.' 'If someone wants to go out on a date, s/he would prefer not to keep their manager in the loop.'
Is your love life under pressure? Are you troubled by your relationship? Get Ahead's Love Guru hosted a chat with readers on July 9 to help them deal with love problems. For those of you who missed it, here's the transcript.
In a weekly chat with readers, Love Guru shares relationship advice.
Rediff.com's Love Guru has answers to all your relationship problems.
Is your love life under pressure? Love Guru hosted a chat with Get Ahead readers on May 21 to help them deal with relationship problems. For those of you who missed it, here's the transcript.
Is your love life under pressure? Love Guru hosted a chat with Get Ahead readers on May 7 to help them deal with relationship problems. For those of you who missed it, here's the transcript.
Is your love life under pressure? Love Guru hosted a chat with Get Ahead readers on April 30 to help them deal with relationship problems. For those of you who missed it, here's the transcript.
In a weekly chat with readers, Rediff.com's Love Guru offers relationship advice.
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In an online chat with Get Ahead readers on August 28, Love Guru answered their relationship queries.
Is your love life under pressure? Love Guru hosted a chat with Get Ahead readers on May 14 to help them deal with relationship problems. For those of you who missed it, here's the transcript.
Rediff.com's Love Guru addresses relationship problems in an online chat.
Is your love life under pressure? Are you troubled by your relationship? Get Ahead's Love Guru hosted a chat with readers on June 26 to help them deal with love problems.
Given his recent spate of successes and acclaim in solo leads, one would have thought the 12th Fail star would want to make the most of it. Instead, he's keen to shift the focus on his family life.
Notorious for drugs and crime and afflicted by large-scale poverty, the Khayelitsha township in Cape Town is better known for being one of the biggest slums on the planet. But World Cup-winning coach Gary Kirsten is attempting to change the image for good through cricket.
The para-athletes outnumbered the able-bodied ones in the list this time due to the magnificent Paris Paralympics performance in which they returned with 29 medals, including seven gold and nine silver.
National-award winning actor, producer, hotelier, ex-politician, cricket team owner, philanthropist, highest tax payer, reality show judge, animal lover and, above all, people's hero -- Mithun Chakraborty -- who has been conferred the Dadasaheb Phalke Award -- is truly a force of nature, notes Sukanya Verma.
Mike Myers, the writer and actor in the outrageous comedy The Love Guru, which some Hindus have found to be offensive, wants to star in a Bollywood musical. And he is very serious about it.
In an online chat with Get Ahead readers on September 25, Love Guru answered their relationship queries.
