'Who will feed us for three months?'

Sheela Bhatt drives from New Delhi to Agra and Firozabad to capture the stories of an India under lockdown. IMAGE: Punjab Singh, Mulayam and Suraj were part of the group walking restlessly towards......

Dalit protests turn violent during Bharat bandh, 9 dead

At least 6 persons died in MP, 2 in UP, one in Rajasthan during protests against the alleged dilution of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.Other states hit with violence included Punjab,......

Som's right: Foreigners built the Taj

How much do you know about Shah Jahan, Mumtaz Mahal and the Taj Mahal? Setting off a controversy comes naturally to Sangeet Som, the Bharatiya Janata Party legislator from Sardhana, Uttar Pradesh.......

Did 300 to 500 people die in Mathura battle?

When Superintendent of Police Mukul Dwivedi was beaten to death by a murderous SBVS mob, the killers included women and teenagers.Why did the district magistrate take over an hour to order......

GPS-enabled apps for tourists soon

My IndiEye Travel Companions, a start-up from the Indian School of Business (ISB), is developing a GPS-enabled navigation application that will enable tourists to get a virtual tour of monuments......

Slump-hit retailers look to small towns for relief

Slowdown-hit retailers in Uttar Pradesh are now targeting customers in tier-II and tier-III towns to make up for the loss in footfalls in the overreached metropolitan cities. Retailers such as......

Easy finance, credit cards push white goods sales

Consumer durable manufacturers and retailers have observed that as more consumers buy premium products such as LCDs, high-end refrigerators, washing machines and IT products, the curve is shifting......

Garm Hawa, a movie classic like none other

What you need to know about M S Sathyu's classic Garm Hawa. Any discussion on Hindi cinema's great Indian classics will invariably bring up a mention of M S Sathyu's flawless directorial debut,......

Garm Hawa, a movie classic like none other

What you need to know about M S Sathyu's classic Garm Hawa. Any discussion on Hindi cinema's great Indian classics will invariably bring up a mention of M S Sathyu's flawless directorial debut,......

I have lost a part of my life with Farooque Sheikh's death

'He represented the warmth, gentleness and goodness that existed in Hindi cinema before Bollywood became a loud commodity.' Aseem Chhabra on the legendary actor he admired for over 40 years. In......

The rising of Bollywood's unlikely hero

There's a rather cute story doing the rounds in the media about how Omkar Das Mainkpuri, or Natha as his character in the film Peepli [Live] is called, wanted to meet Katrina Kaif. He was dying to......

We got more than we asked for: Pakistan

Sport can sometimes act as a great healer and it was wonderfully demonstrated during the opening ceremony of the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi on Sunday. The Pakistan athletes and officials, as......