'You could be out of sight, out of mind but it may take just one song to bring you back and to let you know that your audience is still rooting for you.'
The funny man of Hindi cinema has passed into the ages, but the laughter he generated will echo for years to come.
Mind/life coach, NLP trainer and Mental Health Guru Anu Krishna answers readers' queries and guides them to take control of their life.
A hundred dancers perform the Isai Vani Natyanjali to songs sung by the legendary singer, the late M S Subbulakshmi.
Jasleen: 'It will come as a big surprise to my parents. No one is aware of my relationship with Anupji.' Anup: 'We have a guru-shishya rishta. We have a beautiful equation of music.'
Tiger Shroff has got the goods of a solid action hero but it's time to step out of the show reel space and shine under an actual script and a skilled hand, feels Sukanya Verma.
The iconic Waheeda Rehman tells Subhash K Jha why she refused her most memorable role in Guide until...
'On the face of it, it is a WYSIWYG -- What You See Is What You Get -- reality series, but actually it is a show that perpetuates societal biases, stokes typecasts and stays sadly superficial,' notes ad guru Sandeep Goyal.
'Amit Shah and Modi have a disciple and guru relationship. But Modi and Jaitley's relationship was based on friendship. That's the difference.'
Raju Bist from Thane tells us how he spent the last two months of lockdown.
Bangalore-based model Dayana Erappa talks about what it means to be in the business and shares her fitness mantras.
'When Kamal Haasan came into the room, I was literally shivering. I am just an ordinary head load worker and there, I was standing next to a legend like him. I didn't know what to do. Not even in my dreams did I think of meeting Kamal sir or talking to Shankar Mahadevan sir. I was living a dream.'
'With doctors going up against a seemingly invincible enemy, often at immense risk to their lives, the myths reveal an interesting relationship between the men of medicine and the rest of humankind,' notes Arundhuti Dasgupta.
A look at the top tweets from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
Sanam Re is a moronic film, feels Sukanya Verma.
Japan today imports 500,000 tons of coffee annually. Barely 60 years earlier, it was a market that hardly sold a cup! Ad guru Sandeep Goyal reveals how Nestle won the Coffee versus Tea Battle.
Omkeshwar Singh, Head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
Theatre director Saif Hyder Hassan talks about his new play Ek Mulaqat.
'What I would love him to do most is to become a life coach and share his incredible story of struggle, success, and survival,' says marketing guru Sandeep Goyal.
'For men to find their centre of gravity, it will only come when they are settled in their head.'
'We don't know about our own treasures because we are a colonised people. We are unable to break away from that mindset because it is designed as a mouse trap - and colonised people become pigmies/mice on their own soil. We have lost the eyes to appreciate ourselves.'
'When a woman gets married, she leaves her village, her friends and family.' 'In her new home, she will make friends, but they can never replace those she left behind.'
At a time when the Kashmir valley has been shut down, it is perhaps appropriate that we remember Lal Ded, Kashmir's best known spiritual and literary figure, someone remembered with divine adoration both by Hindus and Muslims in Kashmir. A fascinating excerpt from Sandhya Mulchandani's For The Love Of God: Women Poet Saints Of The Bhakti Movement.
Ghatam exponent T H Subash Chandran recalls his association with the Carnatic great who passed into the ages on Monday.
Sangita tells us what she learned from her father.
'How can anyone ask me to stop what I have been doing since I was 6?'
Bhaag Johnny is a mangled mess of a film, says Nishi Tiwari.
As Raazi hit theatres, Harinder Sikka -- author of Calling Sehmat, the book on which the film is based -- reveals the thrilling real life story of an Indian spy named Sehmat.
Sukanya Verma looks at the jhoola, and how it's an unforgettable part of many a Bollywood imagery in celebration, romance, frolic and, sometimes, even menace.
In an online chat with readers, chef Sanjeev Kapoor shares interesting anecdotes from his culinary journey.
'It's all that pain that makes you the artist you are.'
Brands names are always critical, but -- as Ambi Parameswaran has discovered -- finding the right one for the Indian consumer requires something special.
The story of Thagararu moves along at a brisk pace with lots of comedy and well defined roles for all the characters.
Even in ruin, Jet retained its one essential brand quality: Dignity, says brand guru Sandeep Goyal.
Do Uddhav Thackeray, Aditya Thackeray, Sanjay Raut, and Sharad Pawar want the deaths of the Bhima Koregaon accused to be associated with their regime? asks Jyoti Punwani.
Sacred Games 2 is an upgrade, and is shaping up to be one of India's great cultural events, feels Sreehari Nair.
Varun Gautam, Irrfan's friend from his Jaipur days, learned about Irrfan's illness when he received a phone call from Sutapa. This was sometime before Irrfan officially announced his illness. He assured her, 'Even if the doctors are concerned, he will still stay alive.'
'Nobody will think like him. It was a treat for us to listen to him. He was meticulous in his argument. We got trained by listening to him,' says senior criminal lawyer R Shanmugasundaram, who had known Ram Jethmalani for almost 40 years.
Her brother Karan made her hate Leonard Cohen's music. And then, she bumped into the singer in a Mumbai swimming pool.
'This year, it may be pertinent to look at some of the myths that invoke her warrior form, where she manifests herself as Shakti, the underlying strength in all humanity,' says Arundhuti Dasgupta.
