Vikas Swarup http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/news-interviews/Hope-sells-says-Vikas-Swarup/articleshow/4016211.cms As music director AR Rahman became the first Indian to win the Golden Globe for his score in Slumdog Millionaire in a celebrity-studded event in Los Angeles, the country erupted in cheers. In another corner of the world, Vikas Swarup, the author of Q&A on which the film is based, also cheered. […]
Brahmakumari Shivani Spiritual intelligence is the expression of innate spiritual qualities through your thoughts, actions and attitude, says Brahmakumari Shivani. What does spiritual intelligence mean? In order to understand spiritual intelligence it is useful to first be clear on what we mean when we use these two words. Being Spiritual: To be ‘spiritual’ is to […]
Gyan Prakash An urban raconteur, Gyan Prakash, author of Mumbai Fables, is Professor of History at Princeton University and offers an insider’s take on cosmopolitan Mumbai. The portrait of the maximum city explores its inner life through the eyes of its residents, writers, planners, artists, film-makers and activists. From the terrorist attacks of recent years […]
Patrick Jered taking a music lesson on the ravanhattha Fascinated by the ravanahattha, the earliest ancestor of the violin and a musical instrument credited by mythology to demon king Ravana, Amsterdam-based musician and a PhD in molecular genetics Patrick Jered travelled to India and Sri Lanka to write a book on the subject. He talks about […]
Blogger Imsurenla Longkumer of The Aili (As I Like It) Want to bag the best bargains on designer wear and rare vintage finds? Rummage through the cupboards of India’s young and popular fashion bloggers One thousand five hundred people are helping Imsurenla Longkumer, a 20-year-old former student of Delhi University, move to Bengaluru where she […]
Aarthi Ramamurthy Chennai-born, San Francisco-based software engineer Aarthi Ramamurthy is the talk of the town for creating an algorithm that helps women find the right-sized bra online. Indian women are no different from American ladies. At least, not when they step into a dressing room, and strip. While expert studies claim 80 per cent of […]
Ayushmann Khurrana in the film Vicky Donor “Sperm donation is a social cause, it doesn’t save life, it gives life, it is a completely different zone altogether,” says VJ-turned actor, Ayushmann Khurrana who plays the protagonist in a new film, titled ‘Vicky Donor’. The film has put the spotlight once again on the contentious issue […]
The humble armpit is the new playground for fancy cosmetic procedures. And the onset of summer has only doubled the demand, experts tell Anuradha Varma. Last fortnight, a British tabloid clapped approvingly as Hollywood star Tom Cruise’s wife, Katie Holmes, was photographed wrinkling her forehead as she stepped out of an LA restaurant, squinting in […]
Gauri-Nainika outfit for Kidology After Internet users unleashed a venomous attack against a US-based fashion magazine staffer, who wrote about the diet she put her 7-year-old daughter on, Anuradha Varma finds out how comfortable Indian mothers are when handling overweight kids. Although 36-year-old New Delhi resident and homemaker Shalini Kalla Bansal is busy most mornings, […]
Twitter, that great channel for free speech, is also a space that lawyers have begun to watch like hawks. With the London high court ordering Lalit Modi to cough up. 4 crore for a careless tweet, bloggers would do well to remember that the Internet isn’t quite Speaker’s Corner at Hyde Park, says Anuradha Varma. […]
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