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'Dilip Kumar loved India until his death'

'He was full of Hindustan, its tehzeeb and its culture.' IMAGE: Dilip Kumar receives the lifetime achievement award from then President Pratibha Devisingh Patil as then information and......

KRN's life was a saga of surprises

'KRN's journey from a humble cottage in Uzhavoor to Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi was no less spectacular than that of Abraham Lincoln from the log cabin to the White House,' notes Ambassador T P......

Don't be surprised if we win 55 seats: Manoj Tiwari

Just ahead of the beginning of counting for the assembly elections, Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party chief Manoj Tiwari on Tuesday exuded confidence that his party will form the government in the......

When my mother danced for Chou Enlai and the Dalai Lama

No one on that glittery occasion could possibly have imagined that the Chinese were conspiring to invade India, nor could anyone have predicted that the seemingly benign Dalai Lama was plotting to......

Arun Shourie: How Modi can be beaten in 2019

'The BJP has no presence where the regional parties are strong.''And we should think of the Congress and support the Congress in those places where it is the dominant regional party.''The leaders......

'For every litre of petrol/diesel you have a huge state tax'

Finance Minister Piyush Goyal: 'I hope the Congress governments and other states like West Bengal, Odisha, Tamil Nadu, Andhra, Telangana will support our effort to bring petrol and diesel into the......

The uniqueness of Professor Raj

Bliss it must have been in that dawn to be alive, but to be an economist working for Jawaharlal Nehru must have been heaven (with apologies to Wordsworth)! No retired bureaucrat around to say you......

PM on how to build a poverty-free India

This is the text of the speech ofPrime Minister Manmohan Singh at 92nd annual conference of the Indian Economic Association, Bhubaneshwar: I have also personally known many of the stalwarts who......

Buy a car, get puja done for free

Buying a new car? What about going to a dealer who along with freebies, offers a free 'puja' for the car with a priest in attendance? As Indian priests hop from household to household performing......

The story of Hyderabad's globalisation

I had the good fortune of knowing Professor Waheeduddin Khan both personally and professionally. Professor Khan was a true son of Hyderabad-- gentle, genial, graceful and always affectionate. He......

'Delhi Crime won top Emmy, but people know me from Mirzapur'

'The chowkidar and the paanwala have seen Mirzapur.''They may have missed Delhi Crime, but they have seen Mirzapur'.'Sometimes I feel I have done so much work, why do people know me only by this......

A Simple Murder review

A Simple Murder gets trapped in its mesh of staggered sub-plots and too many characters, notes Moumita Bhattacharjee Watching Mohammad Zeeshan Ayyub as the main lead is such a refreshing change.......

Lata Sang, Nehru Cried: The Real Story

Photograph: Kind courtesy Lata Mangeshkar/Instagram Lata Mangeshkar has so many interesting stories to tell about the movies, her long career and from her own life. Many of these are recorded in......

How are star kids celebrating Ganpati?

Film folk post pix of how their children are enjoying the Ganpati festival. Photograph: Kind courtesy Juhi Parmar/Instagram Juhi Parmar and daughter Samaira have been welcoming Lord Ganesha......

'Sitar meant Ravi Shankar and Ravi Shankar meant the Sitar'

Photograph: Herwig Prammer/Reuters Not too many know this, but the music for India's favourite patriotic song Saare Jahan Se Achcha was composed by Pandit Ravi Shankar, whose birth centenary we......

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