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Forget Michael, will India learn to rock?

Michael goes to Bed, declares Alec Smart in a tabloid headline about the Danish rock band visiting a Mumbai lounge bar. India is finally rocking, is the general feeling, with everybody from Eric......

What has Arctic weather got to do with Indian monsoon? A lot, actually

Data spanning the years 1951 to 2014 show that temperature and pressure conditions at specific locations in the Arctic region during the pre-monsoon period correlate with the Indian summer monsoon......

Cos offer exotic trips for top performers

This Diwali, Rakesh Mehta, a senior sales and marketing employee with an IT firm, will celebrate in Australia with his family. Mehta, is one of the top performers of his company and has been......

Monsoon tourism makes a splash

The monsoon, which is traditionally seen as an off-season in the tourism industry, has taken off very well this year. Monsoon tourism, as it is known, has performed beyond the expectations of......

Market valuations worry FIIs

The good news first. After pulling out close to Rs 3,700 crore (Rs 37 billion) during the month of October, foreign institutional investors are back in the hunt.Though, going by their high......

What makes India unattractive

Arjun Divecha, the man at the helm of affairs at GMO Emerging Markets Fund with $15 billion under its fold, is unwilling to bet on a paradigm shift in India. Going by the statistical odds instead,......

40 things we LOVE about Sholay

Celebrating the epic on its 40th birthday. 'Is story mein emotion hai, romance hai, tragedy hai,' declares Dharmendra's Veeru in one of his drunken moments in Sholay. But there's more, much more,......

Why Amjad Khan never worked with Salim-Javed again

'He was the only new face in a sea of superstars and slowly talk started in the unit that perhaps Ramesh had made a mistake by casting him.'As Bollywood's beloved classic turns 40, we revisit this......

What if Amrapali were remade today?

He believes all is fair in love and war. She believes in sacrificing for her nation.What happens when two such ideologies clash?In 1966, filmmaker Lekh Tandon explored the consequences of this......

'Shah Rukh did not want to do DDLJ'

Her first book, Sholay: The Making Of A Blockbuster, sold 10,000 copies and even won the National Award.Anupama Chopra'stale of the Ramesh Sippy classic starredthe upcoming actor Amitabh Bachchan,......

The First Great Indian Cricketer

One cricketer made all the difference when the first All India cricket team toured England in 1911.Baloo Palwankar startled the English with his guile and genius.A fascinating excerpt from Prashant......

Ticket rates for India-England Test at Wankhede slashed

IMAGE: Mumbai’s Wankhede Stadium during Sachin Tendulkar’s farewell Test match. . Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) on Thursday decided to substantially lower the ticket rates of......

Lahiri off to a sensational start, shares lead in La Quinta

- 'I'm really happy with the way I started today. I was a bit unsure of how I was going to go today.' IMAGE: Anirban Lahiri of India plays his tee shot on the third hole during the first round of......

Tracing Indian golfing ace Lahiri's phenomenal rise

- The first Indian to compete at the prestigious Presidents Cup in Korea next week, Anirban Lahiri on how he realised his dreams which got ignited only last year. IMAGE: India's Anirban Lahiri......

Relive India's first ever Test match... against England in 1932!

Ahead of the Indian cricket team's upcoming Test series against England, Rajneesh Gupta looks back in time on the 184-day trip in Blighty during which the team played 38 matches, including a......

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