In a recent episode of Kapil Sharma Show, a visibly amused Anupam Kher asked Kapil Sharma, “How do you manage to come up with such rib-tickling one-liners at the drop of a hat,”? The effervescent...
After India’s defeat in the just-concluded Edgbaston Test, now people, as well as critics, have begun to ask: Has the 34-year-old former Indian captain Virat Kohli become a liability to the team? What was sacrilegious...
A chocolate ad on TV has become extremely popular among viewers and is grabbing eyeballs. It shows one of the male cricket fans in the stadium rooting for the Indian women's team and leaping for...
The recent arrest of a self-styled godman Siva Shankar Baba from Tamil Nadu for sexually abusing young girls has once again exposed the murky world of fake godmen who have become a law unto themselves....
Old age was an indecent state that had to be ended before it was too late…at eighty-one years of age, Dr Urbino had enough lucidity to realize that he was attached to this world by...
What happens when a happily married middle-aged man decides to abandon his family and pursue his passion to become a painter? In W. Somerset Maugham’s famous novel, The Moon and Sixpence, the central protagonist, forty-year-old...
For some, life begins after retirement. There is even a desire to live life dangerously by throwing oneself out of one’s comfort zone. It is rightly said that to have an adventure, one must break...
Barely had the nation come to terms with the news of Irrfan’s untimely death when the devastating news of Rishi Kapoor’s sudden demise, in the morning of April 30, shook the film world and the...
In the Eighties, when Irrfan was a teenager, people used to say he looked like the spitting image of the then Bollywood star Mithun Chakraborty. This young lad would take it as a compliment. In...
Kolkata: India’s only government fashion institute National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) has reworked its curriculum to produce not only designers, but also those...
Kolkata: A fact-finding from Kolkata who visited Muzaffarpur come to conclusion that neither it was a virus outbreak nor the litchi syndrome that caused...
Kolkata: The two-day Harry Potter extravaganza - Alohomora kicked off in style at Jadavpur University's Vivekananda Hall on Tuesday. The inaugural ceremony was followed...