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Two minutes into Farhan Akhtar's Don and Shah Rukh strikes a pose in a room of ballroom dancers. And I knew he wouldn't mess up the ...

Is Orkut creating a world of online socialites? Just the other day I read a piece on 'air-kissing' in a Mumbai tabloid. Orkut may no...

A dear friend celebrated his birthday recently. Mom calls him Horee, with her typical Bengali touch. He has bowled her over with his voice. ...

You’re not alone when you’re walking in the rains, sheltered under an umbrella. There is the constant chatter of the raindrops falling on th...

...and there I was, hanging on to his collar, my other arm flailing wildly in thin air as the raindrops battered my skin as if sanctifying h...

The timing couldn’t have been more perfect - the release of his book ‘A Nature’s Call to Honour’ (Wasn’t it ‘A Call to Honour’?) which supp...

Mumbai is not the repository of polished culture, courtesy and soft spoken denizens. Such culture and polite manners are expected when you...

"You have to work within the system, to change the system." - Atul Kulkarni in the film, Page 3 The common man stands testimony si...

What can stars do? Nothing...but sit on their axis! -Charlie Chaplin With soccer fever flying high over the air-waves, its time the bird flu...

There's been quite a lot of debate so far whether a good book makes a good film. I havn't been exactly a participant in this debate,...

"Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation." - Euge...

"What's up?" she mused, over the phone. "Yeah...nothing much," I replied, casually. The question has become redundan...

I fi nally bid adieu to the Indian Express. No, no t that I was working there. But I've been a regular reader of this honest daily, f...

Location: A fashion week Situation: Strict security, policemen deployed all around the venue to ensure there aren't any wardrobe malfunc...

Hollywood's biggest blockbusters have been - believe it or not - costume dramas. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Harry Potter series...th...

The Indian media must be taking pride from the fact, that their exetensive coverage and campaign for justice in the Jessica Lal case worked ...

Advertising and marketing professionals take note - selling a product inside trains can make for an interesting case study. Consider this - ...

Professor Shashi Nair surely had a point to make when he informed us that the human eye is perhaps the most versatile lens ever created. The...

The bomb blasts at Varanasi surely have sent ripples through the nation. While the media has been keeping the us informed about the latest d...

There's a crazy energy all around the media. An energy which never dies down - its a world which is constantly upbeat and abreast with t...