Just take me home, son: Mother's plea to daily wager

Tears blurring her vision, Raji Devi watched the bus carrying migrant workers to Uttar Pradesh drive into the distance and turned to her son to say she just wants to be home and never wants to see......

Life's a ball! Celebrating Moulin Rouge at 130

Remember the Nicole Kidman starrer Moulin Rouge? Well, the Moulin Rouge, the French cabaret famous for its high-kicking cancan dancers and flesh-exposing ostrich feather costumes, has completed 130......

Dhaka cafe attack weapons were made in Bihar, delivered in mango baskets!

A consignment of weapons used during the Dhaka cafe attack that killed 20 foreigners, including an Indian girl, was modified in India before it was transported to Bangladesh in mango baskets, a......

Why is Modi still so popular?

Will a time come when people will look beyond what they see as Modi's strengths and begin to wonder why they have got poorer or sicker under his rule, asks Vir Sanghvi.   It is a question......

Watched These Brilliant Malayalam Films?

Divya Nair lists 2023's Malayalam movies that can be enjoyed by all ages. 2023 was a year of rare hits for the Malayalam film industry. In a country where masala entertainers like Jawan and violent......

Why Merry Christmas Left Me Feeling Shortchanged

If you have never seen Sriram Raghavan fly, you would hardly realise that this time, he is happy in his cage, this time he isn't reaching for the skies, notes Sreehari Nair. IMAGE: Katrina Kaif in......

How Kangana Celebrated Her Birthday

Sanjay Dutt hits the gym... Keerthy attends a wedding... Shabana is in Los Angeles... Please click on the images for a look at the stars.   IMAGE: Kangana Ranaut updates us on how she's......

Revenge Of The Nepo Kid

Sikandar Kher's Nishikant Adhikari is a solitary poet by the corner, trying to remind us that the honest plans of honest people don't always come to respectable ends, observes Sreehari Nair.......

Gladiator Is Excited About The Ashes!

IMAGE: Australia's stand-in skipper Steve Smith and England Skipper Ben Stokes with the Ashes in Perth, November 20, 2025. Photograph: ausmencricket/Facebook The battle for the Urn returns as......

Six Worlds, no gold... Can Deepika break the jinx?

IMAGE: Deepika Kumari, who topped the trials, was joined by Ankita and Gatha to form India's three-member recurve women's squad. Photograph: World Archery/Instagram In the twilight of her career,......

'Be the best batter you can be': Karthik's advice to Gill

'In SENA countries, as an Indian batter, his average is not something he is going to be proud of.' IMAGE: Shubman Gill doesn't enjoy a good record in England, where he has managed just 88 runs in......

Can India Breach Fortress Birmingham?

India has lost 7 out of 8 Tests played at Edgbaston. Will the second Test see an Indian win at last? IMAGE: India are yet to win a Test in Birmingham in nearly six decades -- boasting of a dismal......

RCB's home woes: Can they finally win in Bengaluru?

Struggling to find form in their own den, Royal Challengers Bengaluru will look to regain control of their IPL campaign at home when they meet a floundering Rajasthan Royals in Bengaluru on......