What attracts Bollywood guys to older women?
By Subhash K. Jha Mumbai, Nov 17 (IANS) Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas have company. Older women in love with younger guys seems to be a trend taking hold of the entertainment industry. There is…
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An ‘epic’ on Indian soldiers in WWI (Book Review)
By C. Uday Bhaskar Book: The Indian Empire At War; Author: George Morton-Jack; Publisher: Little, Brown; Pages: 582; Price Rs 699 World War I was a long and brutal military confrontation between the major powers…
Don’t only think of survival of new-borns, but also their sight
By Dr. Subhadra Jalali The World Health Organisation (WHO) celebrates World Prematurity Day every year on November 17, to put the spotlight on premature babies. Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP) is a dynamic, time-bound disease that…
Internet as powerful as nuclear bomb: John C. Reilly
By Sugandha Rawal Los Angeles, Nov 16 (IANS) Actor John C. Reilly feels Internet is the central issue of our time, and says it was exciting to address several concerns around it through a “fun…
Donald Trump is inspiring hate: Actress Katherine Waterston
By Sugandha Rawal Los Angeles, Nov 16 (IANS) Katherine Waterston gets scared when she sees leaders around the world manipulating people to create a divide. The “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald” actress says US…
Ex-army officer forays into Bollywood to tell ‘lost stories’ of war heroes
By Archana Sharma Jaipur, Nov 16 (IANS) With the heroic stories of soldiers losing their sheen by getting lost with the passage of time, a former Army officer has forayed into Bollywood with a production…
Fiction from the west
New Delhi, Nov 16 (IANS) Read a heart-breaking love story – one that will transcend decades, continents and the workings of fate. There’s also a gripping mystery and a page-turning next instalment in the ongoing…
‘Kedarnath’ a genuine attempt to create harmony: Abhishek Kapoor
By Nivedita New Delhi, Nov 16 (IANS) Seeing a Muslim porter carrying a Hindu pilgrim on his back — something that speaks a lot about India as a country — left a seed in Abhishek…
Under Harmanpreet Kaur’s captaincy, team India have a superb opportunity
By Suprita Das For a country thats as cricket-crazy as India is, its amazing (read “really really unfortunate”), that the womens game, up until very recently, has got such little attention. As I understood during…
‘Mohalla Assi’: Astutely mounted but verbose and clunky (IANS Review, Rating: **)
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Mohalla Assi”; Director: Chandraprakash Dwivedi; Cast: Sunny Deol, Sakshi Tanwar, Ravi Kishan, Saurabh Shukla, Mukesh Tiwari, Rajendra Gupta, Mithilesh Chaturvedi and Seema Azmi; Rating: ** One of the opening frames of…
‘Pihu’: Engrossing but tedious (IANS Review, Rating: **)
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Pihu”; Director: Vinod Kapri; Cast: Myra Vishwakarma, Rating ** Writer-director Vinod Kapri’s purported thriller “Pihu” is an attempt to shake parents and guardians out of their stupor and make them realise…
‘Boy Erased’: Heart-rending sans melodrama (IANS Review, Rating: ***)
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Boy Erased”; Director: Joel Edgerton; Cast: Lucas Hedges, Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe, Joel Edgerton, Xavier Dolan, Troye Sivan, Britton Sear, Joe Alwyn, Flea and Cherry Jones; Rating: *** Director Joel Edgerton’s…
‘The Killing Fields’ director Roland Joffe to base next film in Darjeeling
By Anik Basu Kolkata, Nov 15 (IANS) Twice Oscar-nominated director Roland Joffe will return to India for his next film — his third venture in the country — in spring. This time, he will be…
‘Bohemian Rhapsody’: A sugar-coated memento (IANS Review, Rating: ***)
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Bohemian Rhapsody”; Director: Bryan Singer; Cast: Rami Malek, Lucy Boynton, Gwilym Lee, Ben Hardy, Joseph Mazzello, Aidan Gillen, Allen Leech, Tom Hollander and Mike Myers; Rating: *** The film “Bohemian Rhapsody”…
I often wonder if I’ll be employed again: Eddie Redmayne
By Sugandha Rawal Los Angeles, Nov 15 (IANS) Eddie Redmayne is having a successful run in Hollywood, but there are days when he wonders if he will get employed again. The Oscar-winning actor says he…
Trump’s political agenda distressing but no intention of running for office, says Michelle Obama in her memoir
New Delhi, Nov 15 (IANS) Former US First Lady, Michelle Obama is distressed by the “behaviour and political agenda” of US President Donald Trump but has “no intention of running for office”, she has stated…
Stan Lee believed comics are here to stay – with some help from smartphones
By Sugandha Rawal New Delhi, Nov 14 (IANS) He might be gone, but the world he created with strokes of his imagination will live on forever. Stan Lee believed his universe of superheroes and super…
Poonam Dhillon now Mumbai BJP Vice President, doesn’t want to be ‘decorative piece’
By Radhika Bhirani New Delhi, Nov 14 (IANS) Veteran actress Poonam Dhillon joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in 2004, but it is only now that she has taken on an active role as its…
Denigrating Nehru is like throwing pebbles at a mountain: Shashi Tharoor
New Delhi, Nov 13 (IANS) Alleging that the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its followers lose no opportunity to denigrate Jawaharlal Nehru, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has stated in a new edition of his…
Film music dominance reducing Indian singers’ chance to make music from the heart: Ricky Kej
By Nivedita New Delhi, Nov 13 (IANS) Ricky Kej, an ardent environmentalist and India’s youngest Grammy winner, says while Indian music has always been recognised internationally, what concerns him is how, with the dominance of…