Life From A Hospital Room

Thanks to a close one's illness, I have seen quite a few hospital rooms in the past half a year or so.They have revived my respect for life reinterpreted via its essentials, notes Shyam G Menon.......

Amazing, Awesome, Stunning Photographs!

The 2025 Sony World Photography Awards has announced its National and Regional Award winners, celebrating talent from 56 countries. These awards highlight exceptional single images from the Open......

99 And Seven Decimal Points

'Does 99 percent guarantee character and capacity for an independent awareness of life or does it make you -- barring exceptions -- a compliant careerist beholden to governments and......

10 Reasons Why This Is 2025's Most Unfairly Treated Film

As someone who could not predict a single beat in advance, who was exhilarated by its audacity to throw random elements together and take chances all over the place, Sreehari Nair thinks Odum......

Why Was Sulakshana Pandit So Famous?

In 1973, Mumtaz, Raakhee, Jaya Bhaduri, Dimple Kapadia, Tanuja, married and retired from films.Producers wanted a new heroine as a replacement.Many thought Sulakshana was a Mumtaz lookalike and was......

The Man Who Directed 5 Superstars

Dinesh Raheja charts the highs and lows of Hrishikesh Mukherjee's creative association with five megastars -- Amitabh Bachchan, Rajesh Khanna, Raj Kapoor, Dilip Kumar and Dharmendra. IMAGE:......

When Aamir, Amitabh Fought...

'People ask me about my biggest action sequence; this is it, because it involved two giants of Indian cinema.' IMAGE: Shah Rukh Khan's action stunt in Ra.One. Photograph: Kind courtesy Parvez......

Former middleweight champ Golovkin to run for World Boxing presidency

IMAGE: Kazakhstan's Gennady Golovkin, who retired from the ring three years ago, had a record of 345 wins from 350 fights as an amateur boxer before winning multiple middleweight world titles.......

IOC grants provisional recognition to World Boxing

IMAGE: Photograph used for representational purposes only. Photograph: WB/X The International Olympic Committee on Wednesday granted provisional recognition to World Boxing in a major step......

World Boxing to introduce mandatory sex testing for all boxers

IMAGE: World Boxing said Paris Olympics gold medallist Imane Khelif will not be allowed to compete until she undergoes a mandatory sex test. Photograph: Ramzi Boudina/Reuters World Boxing will......

World Boxing announces birth of new Asian confederation

IMAGE: Asia's Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, both among the 10 most successful nations in the history of Olympic boxing, this month joined World Boxing. Photograph: Jan Kruger/Getty Images from the......

Big blow for boxers not part of World Boxing

IMAGE: The IOC last month granted provisional recognition to World Boxing in a major step towards the sport's inclusion in the 2028 Olympics. Photograph: Jan Kruger/Getty Images from the Rediff......