'If you meet Bilkis, you'd feel she has become a stone'

'She had the courage to not cow down before the entire law and order apparatus, to remain sane and human despite inhuman suffering meted out to her and her family.' IMAGE: Bilkis Bano at a press......

'Nobody can tarnish the greatness of Kalakshetra forever'

'This setback is only transient, and I am sure this too shall pass.' IMAGE: Artists performing Sabari Moksham, a dance drama during the 'Remembering Rukmini Devi Festival 2023' at Kalakshetra.......

'Why should our girls face discrimination?'

'In a secular society where women are treated equally by law, I want the same equal status for my daughters in society, on par with all the boys.' IMAGE: Lawyer C Shukkur, wife Sheena, second from......

AMU's Governance Structure Is Democratic, Not Divine

These self-appointed well-wishers of AMU are basically for the control or police model of university governance.They have no faith whatsoever in the democratic functioning of the universities,......

Off-patents provide big opportunity: Dr Reddy

One of the two molecules developed by Dr Reddy's was named after its chairman Dr K Anji Reddy and another after Lord Balaji. Reddy, who started new drug research in the country a decade and a half......

A biz guru cracks the Indian code!

It's day four of our journey into the heart of India's culture, and we're holed up inside the sprawling Bangalore Oberoi hotel. Somehow, this immaculately manicured property blocks out the......

'Bollywood is such a waste of time'

'You make a song, it gets rejected, you have to make 10 more.' IMAGE: Rakesh Chaurasia and Ustad Zakir Hussain. Photograph: Kind courtesy Rakesh Chaurasia Rakesh Chaurasia made history when he won......

OMG 2 Review: Goes Round In Circles

Akshay Kumar looks cool in that trippy get-up and adds his charisma to the film that is otherwise a lot of verbiage, observes Deepa Gahlot. The play Kanji Viruddh Kanji by Bhavesh Mandalia,......

10 Classic Tamil Films On OTT

When it comes to Tamil cinema, if you take away the superstars, the thalas and the thalapathis, love is a central theme that always triumphs and strikes a chord with the audience. The varying......

Saluting *THE* Voice

Lata Mangeshkar was my introduction, the beginning, the basic, the identity of film music.Sukanya Verma salutes The Legend. Photograph: Kind courtesy Lata Mangeshkar/Instagram It was early in the......

Rumble in the Jungle shook the world

The Rumble in the Jungle was the greatest boxing spectacle of the 20th century, notes Dhruv Munjal. IMAGE: Muhammad Ali and George Foreman. Photograph: Stewart Cook/Getty Images It almost didn't......