Fiesty Bengal pacer Mukesh Kumar knows well what it takes to be selected for the Indian Test team.
Utkarsh Mishra imagines what is it that Baba Gandhi would say if he got the chance.
They're so bad, they're good!
Richa Chadha on love, sexism, nepotism and sex crimes.
Sukanya Verma goes through the cool and crazy ways moon/chand/chanda/chandrama is depicted in Bollywood movies.
Here's a look at the most attractive pairs of eyes in Bollywood.
'He was a sentimental man, but his commitment to the Olive Green always came before anything else, including his family.' A fascinating excerpt from Rachna Bisht Rawat's Bipin: The Man Behind The Uniform.
'Today, in India, if we do good to others, people feel s/he has some motive.' 'Politics has corrupted our minds.'
Condemning the police crackdown inside Jamia Millia university, several film industry insiders, including one from Hollywood, on Monday rallied behind the university's students and said the government is trying to stifle voices of dissent against the Citizenship Amendment Act.
In Arvind Kejriwal's home turf, Kaushambi, the honeymoon with India's most famous aam aadmi is near its end.
Many believe Kishore Kumar serenaded the ladies better than any other iconic playback singer.
'I don't trust these days. Like now, everyone likes Mimi and my phone is constantly ringing. But tomorrow if I make a flop, the opposite will happen.'
A far cry from his playing-to-the-gallery comedian, Kapil Sharma emerges as a heartfelt picture of aspiration and annoyance, feels Sukanya Verma.
The poet had been admitted to the hospital on Tuesday morning after he tested positive for the disease.
It's day 86 in the Bigg Boss house and the road to the finale is sure to make the housemates dizzy.
Iconic boxer MC Mary Kom and ace archer Deepika Kumari were told they need not say sorry after returning without medals while hockey player P R Sreejesh was asked by Prime Minister Narendra Modi if he has learnt Punjabi when he hosted the Tokyo-returned Olympians at his residence.
Indian cricketers are trying in their own way to cope with the lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic which has brought sporting action across the world to a halt. Opener Shikhar Dhawan entertained his fans by dancing to the track 'Daddy Cool' with his son Zoravar.
'How could I play Devsaab's sister after playing his wife in Tere Mere Sapne and doing such intimate scenes with him?'
'If we are forced to be confined indoors for a month or two months, it's not such a big deal. It's not like we are in jail.'
'The fact that all the charges against my son are baseless and concocted, in itself, gives me all the hope.'
'...as much as in India, it's only because she sang for mankind, not the details on the passport.'
A fun excerpt from Diptakirti Chaudhuri's Bollygeek: The Crazy Trivia Guide to Bollywood.
Ghar Waapsi is strewn in pithy wit. And believable scenes of pyaar and takraar, observes Sukanya Verma.
Ajay Devgn talks about Dil Toh Baccha Hai Ji and much much more.
After watching the week's releases at special screenings, film folk have been applauding Jersey, Operation Romeo, Guilty Minds on social media.
'Ranveer Singh is very lively on the sets. You don't feel the pressure when he's there.'
Call it strategy or anything else, Sid definitely played his game smartly.
Joginder Tuteja offers a fresh recap of its 10 most iconic moments.
'Mere Haathon Mein Nau-Nau Chudiya Hain showed how skillfully Shiv-Hari could weave into the commercial idiom.'
Tubes gone, Irom Sharmila the brand is dead. As long as she was trying to kill herself, she had value to the cynics trying to build their careers over her fast, says Shekhar Gupta.
'He was always sweet and polite with me.'
Indian star Sania Mirza, who is married to Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik, spoke about her personal life with actress Neha Dhupia in her chat show No Filter Neha.
She breathed her last in a hospital in Mumbai on August 15.
Film music flourished in the 1970s. Some old masters did some great work, but it was also the decade of new composers.
Musicians pick favourite songs of 2015!
'There is so much division in the country. People are getting more and more into 'Main Hindu hoon woh Mussalmaan hai'.' 'This climate of suspicion and hostility must stop,' The Legend, 92 today, tells Subhash K Jha in an exclusive interview.
'You don't need a godfather to protect you from dangers of Bollywood because nobody will.'
Theek nahi lagta, a song written by Lata Mangeshkar's favourite lyricist Gulzar, was believed to have been lost.