As Swades turns 20, Aseem Chhabra looks back at the film that spoke to him.
It was a hit and miss for some but each one of them revelled in the opportunity to showcase their talent.
Activist short-seller Nathan Anderson, known for his high-profile campaigns against the likes of Adani Group, said he is closing his firm, Hindenburg Research, not because of any threat -- legal or otherwise -- and that he stands by all its reports.
The tragedy occurred during the university's anniversary celebrations.
One of the best ways to celebrate Children's Day is by spending quality time with your kids and binge watch meaningful yet entertaining cinema pieces.
Just 10 days ahead of the Election Day, the United States presidential race remained very tight with both Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump locked in a dead heat for the popular votes in most swing states.
This year's Sundance Film Festival was rich with films and the theatres were warm, even as temperatures outside dipped to below freezing point. It snowed only once but the sidewalks remained slippery for a few days.
'He devoted his entire life for the betterment of Mumbai cricket and cricketers.' 'Even when he left for the Elysian Fields, he was in harness as mentor/advisor to the MCA.' Hemant Kenkre mourns the passing of Mumbai cricket icon Milind Rege.
The Indira Gandhi Cultural Centre located in Dhaka's Dhanmondi area was damaged by the unruly mob, according to eyewitnesses.
Meet the stunning Miss Universe 2018 Catriona Gray.
'In a super ambitious industry, you stood out for your unfilminess. Thank you for giving my films your iconic voice.'
'Did anyone else get the feeling that AWIAL -- despite being ostensibly based in the Mumbai of today -- is actually set in a Neverland of Solemnity?' asks Sreehari Nair.
Many interesting films with A-Listers line up for release in June.
'Kamal has surfed and navigated a lot of tidal waves, manoeuvring the peaks and troughs, combining rare intelligence and commonly available intuitions to overcome unimaginable crises all his life.' 'There is no looking back at the past, for his only motto has been 'Tomorrow belongs to us'!'
Shailendra's songs were attuned to Raj Kapoor's explorations of the themes and dreams of the Everyman.
Their music, available online, sung in Hindi, English, Urdu and Marathi, displays a new grammar and vocabulary which expresses the language of the disempowered,
'Our greatest enemies lie within us Kama -- selfish desires; krodha -- anger; moha -- attachment; lobha -- greed; madha -- pride and matsarya -- envy. Life is a constant battle against these dark forces. An enlightening excerpt from Priya Arora's book, Rama: A Man of Dharma.
'Today, music directors do not work on a song that turns out to be the biggest hit of the year.' 'Their main focus is on creating a song which becomes an instant hit.' 'Whether the audience remembers that song after a couple of months or not, that does not concern them anymore.'
'We watched the film many times but each time, we would cry.' 'During the editing and sound mixing, my whole team would cry.' 'When we reached the music composing stage, it happened again.' 'Our producer said it is too much to be crying so many times.' 'But we never thought the film would be such a big hit.'
They'll have you grooving to their latest numbers.
'After Om's untimely demise, he would call us every Sunday for the next two years to ask, "How are you doing my dear? How's the young fella?"'
Raw green chickpeas is nicest lightly boiled with chopped onion. But try this take.
His music was loved by film personalities and political leaders alike, and they took to social media to offer their condolences.
'People worship Krishna. People don't worship Ved Vyas, who wrote the Mahabharata.' 'It's a cultural thing because we don't see the heroes behind the screen, we see the heroes who are in front of the screen.'
Apart from these, reading was also a big passion.
Prabha Atre, the woman who could have been lawyer, scientist or doctor but became a globally renowned Hindustani classical vocalist instead, died in her Pune home on Saturday hours before she was to leave for a concert in Mumbai. She was 92.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Monday has decided to award the 2024 Nobel Prize also known as the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson "for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity."
Film folk celebrate International Yoga Day with pictures of them doing, well, yoga!
The warmth and respect for India were evident wherever I went and noticed how most Latin Americans have Indian gurus either directly or online and yoga was very much in vogue, observes Ambassador T P Sreenivasan.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Monday has decided to award the 2024 Nobel Prize also known as the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A Robinson 'for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity'.
The top 10 films of the year may not be great by themselves but they stand out amidst the other OTT releases.
Payal Kapadia's understanding of what it means to be a woman is as poignant as her authentic portrait of Mumbai's hoi polloi, observes Sukanya Verma.
An endowed chair to study and teach Sikh musical traditions has been established in Hofstra University's Department of Religion, university President Stuart Rabinowitz announced on May 1.The Sardarni Harbans Kaur Chair in Sikh Musicology, a gift from Dr Hakam Singh, a retired chemist with a lifelong interest in Sikh music, will concentrate on how Sikh music and scripture are historically intertwined.
Jesus College Choir -- a choir from the University of Cambridge teamed up with non-government organisation Songbound for an unique initiative that culminated at Blue Frog, a popular lounge in Mumbai.
At this year's TIME ball in New York City on Thursday, April 25, you would have run into a Coimbatore-born American scientist, looking lovely in Sabyasachi Mukherjee designer finery, who would most likely have been hanging out with Dua Lipa.
Film stars and technicians were awarded at the IIFA awards over the weekend, and here are the big winners.
'Not even in my wildest dreams did I think I would write a book one day.'
This musical traipses through the Beatles songbook and finds blissful innocence.
'As a child, I enjoyed studying Sanskrit, Sanskrit poetry and Indian classical music. I saw math in all these things,' says Manjul Bhargava, the first Indian-origin person to win the Fields Medal
'When you walk on to a Sanjay Leela Bhansali set, it is complete surrender. You have to become a sponge.'
