“Weight issues aside, people don’t even want a girl with an uneven skin tone or bad hair. They want Barbie lookalikes”
23 December 2011At Rs 8,500, the Peking Duck is the most expensive dish on the menu of Hakkasan, a restaurant that has many of Mumbai’s swish set as patrons. But let’s just say it’s an acquired taste
23 December 2011When you get a Rs 5,000 haircut from Alessandro Calvio, you have something of a ballet happening on your head
23 December 2011Meera Syal on why The Kumars at No 42 closed acting options for her in India
22 December 2011It’s not ‘all in the mind’ when you choose to climb 20 floors instead of taking the elevator
17 December 2011It’s actually happening in Mumbai, but rationalists dismiss it as religious bunkum
05 December 2011The doctor is on ‘suicide watch’ at LA County Jail as he has said he wants to kill himself
05 December 2011Some will ask you to walk on fire. Most tell you things you already know. And yet, curiously, ‘life coaches’ have so many takers in India these days. What’s going on?
01 December 2011Reportedly, almost Rs 48.75 crore has been spent on looking after Kasab
27 November 2011If you are confused about Rockstar’s plot, then Imtiaz Ali is the wrong man to ask
24 November 2011CELESTIAL HEROISM IS a bestseller, unless it is badly made. In it merges great survivor dramas and the romance of breaching the boundaries of human…
10 April 2019Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of two award-winning books on water: Water, Peace, and War and Water: Asia’s New Battleground
MJ Akbar is the author of, among several titles, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. His latest book is Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns
Ram Madhav is a member of the National Executive of RSS and a founding member of the governing council of India Foundation. He is the author of, among other titles, Partitioned Freedom and The Hindutva Paradigm
TCA Raghavan is a former Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan and Singapore. His first book, Attendant Lords: Abdur Rahim and Bairam Khan: Courtiers and Poets in Mughal India, was awarded the Mohammad Habib Prize by the Indian History Congress. He is also the author of The People Next Door: The Curious History of India’s Relations with Pakistan and History Men: Jadunath Sarkar, G S Sardesai, Raghubir Sinh and Their Quest for India’s Past. His latest book is Circles of Freedom: Love, Friendship and Loyalty in the Indian National Struggle