The sound of the dhak is an essential part of Pujo celebrations, says Indrayanee Mukherjee. Pujo (or Durga Puja) is not Pujowithout the resounding echoes of the dhak (the percussion instrument......
"We don't discern a definite trend in child labour just going by the number of children rescued or persons arrested as that has been volatile over the years," says Sadanand Date, deputy......
Six years after running down the low-cost model, Jet Airways and Kingfisher Airlines are betting on it to keep running. On August 25, 2003, Gorur Ramaswamy Gopinath, an ex-Army officer who ran......
Sukanya Verma quizzes you to find out just how much you know about the movies. Did you know Madhuri Dixit was the original choice to play Rajjo in 1942: A Love Story? She even did a photo session......
Nightingale of India. Greatest Indian Singer ever. Goddess Saraswati incarnate. Hyperbole becomes Lata Mangeshkar. No amount of praise is lavish enough to describe the supremacy of her voice as it......
A worn-out fantasy of shallow wisdom and unspectacular effects, perhaps it's time to close the book on the Mowgli legend, feels Sukanya Verma. Baloo is no longer fun and fluffy. And Kaa is nicer......
Happy birthday, Lataji! Every time she breathes, she makes music and the applause follows. For more than half a century, the beautiful, lilting, hearty quality of Lata Mangeshkar's singing has......
'On the first day of shooting, after our first shot together as co-stars was canned, a dream Saira had cherished for years, Rajinder Krishan, the poet who was watching the way Saira was following......