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Telly tattle: Fans upset with Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai's track; vent anger on social media
14 killed, 45 injured in truck-bus collision in Maharashtra
Anushka Sharma's bikini photo leaves hubby Virat Kohli captivated
Anushka Sharma, whose last post on Instagram was on July 31, 2019, has surprised her fans by posting a gorgeous photograph of herself from West Indies. The actress has accompanied husband Virat Kohli, the captain of the Indian cricket team, for the West Indies tour and is making the most of it by spending some quality time in the overseas arena.
On Monday, she posted a "sunkissed" picture of herself from a beach. Dressed in tangerine and white striped bikini, Anushka Sharma radiated positivity and beauty. While her fans are gasping for breath after watching this photo, husband Virat Kohli, too, is in awe of it. Virat dropped a comment on his wifey's photo by sharing a heart emoticon and awestruck eyes.
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B-town buzz: Rakul Preet Singh vacays in Ibiza; Puneet Issar's son to make Bollywood debut
Gareth Bale to stay at Real Madrid, says Zinedine Zidane after Celta win
Phil Jagielka's wife dumps him for dating Australian model
Premier League footballer Phil Jagielka has been dumped by wife Emily over his friendship with an Australian model, Holly Young, who earlier dated Olympic sprint legend Usain Bolt.
Sheffield United defender Phil, 37, and Emily, 39, were married for 10 years, but according to reports in British tabloid, The Sun, the couple have now separated.
"It looks like a permanent split," a source said.
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Suicide bombing at wedding hall kills 63 in Kabul
Kabul: Joy and celebration turned into horror and carnage when an Islamic State (IS) suicide bomber targeted a packed Afghan wedding hall, killing at least 63 people in the deadliest attack to rock Kabul in months, officials and witnesses said on Sunday.
The massive blast, which took place late on Saturday in west Kabul, came as Washington and the Taliban finalise a deal to reduce the US military presence in Afghanistan and hopefully build a roadmap to a ceasefire.
The groom recalled greeting smiling guests in the afternoon, before seeing their bodies being carried out hours later. The attack "changed my happiness to sorrow", the young man, who gave his name as Mirwais, told local TV station Tolo News. "My family and my bride are in shock, they cannot even speak. My bride keeps fainting," he said.
A wounded man receives treatment as people gather around him at the Wazir Akbar Khan Hospital. Pics/AFP
"I lost my brother, I lost my friends and my relatives. I will never see happiness..
Raftaar and DJ Nucleya on finding the best rapper among the excellent
Considering its widespread reach, cinema has been upheld by cinephiles and movie-makers as a tool to inspire change in society. But, in the case of Zoya Akhtar's Gully Boy, it may not necessarily be the commercial release that served as a magic wand for the hip-hop industry. At least, that's what DJ Nucleya believes as he tells mid-day, "Whether or not [underground rappers] are spoken about in the media, they will continue to grow. The reason the film got made is because the scene is unstoppable. What we see in the media or even mainstream music, is only five per cent of what's actually happening." Usually selective when heaping praise on artistes, the DJ, with a mention in Forbes' list of the wealthiest, appears mesmerised with the talent he's seeing on the music reality show, MTV Hustle, that he co-judges with Raftaar and Raja Kumari. He says he isn't mincing words when stating, "This will be a revolution."
A world obsessed with perfection is having its influence on both fields, the ..
Kartik Aaryan all set to take forward Akshay Kumar's ghostbuster, Bhool Bhulaiyaa
T20 World series: Palghar gives open-jeep welcome to Vikrant Keni
Konkona Sensharma to showcase life of a cabaret queen in web series
Arjun Kapoor: Trying to be the best version of me that my mother would want me to be
Smriti Irani's latest post about weekend expectations is hilarious!
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BSP MLAs differ with Mayawati
Jaipur: While BSP supremo Mayawati has slammed the acquittal of all six accused in the Pehlu Khan lynching case, BSP MLAs in Rajasthan have come out in support of it. Six MLAs of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), which supports the Congress government in Rajasthan, met Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Friday evening and took a different stand from that of the party chief.
Mayawati had on Friday tweeted in Hindi: "Due to the gross negligence and inaction of the Rajasthan Congress government, all six accused in the Pehlu Khan mob lynching case were acquitted by the lower court, this is unfortunate. If the government would've been cautious in bringing justice to the victim's family, would this (acquittal of the accused) ever be possible, perhaps never."
BSP MLA Rajendra Guda, after his meeting with Gehlot, said, "Mayawati had been conveyed wrong information. She has been sitting in Lucknow and is not updated on the process of the probe. In fact, none of the Dalits under Chief Minister Ash..
Mumbai golfer Gauri Karhade means business at 17
The Army's go-to graphic artist
Nineteen years ago, brave Lieutenant Nawang Kapadia of Mumbai, laid down his life fighting terrorists just 39 days after getting commissioned into the Indian Army. His parents, who since then have struggled to make peace with this loss, recently saw his life immortalised in a graphic novel, Nawang, dedicated to the war hero.
The novel is part of a patriotic comic series, created by Delhi-based Rishikumar Varma, who has now become the India Army's go-to artist to tell stories from the war zone. The graphic artiste has already published 37 titles under the banner of AAN Comics. "As a child, I was always fascinated by war heroes. Most of the ideas for my graphic work would come while playing videos games that depicted war zones or watching war movies," says Varma, whose favourite Bollywood war film is JP Dutta's Border.
Though the comic series has great sentimental value for the country, Varma says that he struggled to get a publisher. "When my first comic book, Siachen, The Cold War, was..
Weekly Planner: 17 things to do around Mumbai from August 19 to August 24
Learn to bake keto-style3 pm: Have you recently jumped onto the keto bandwagon? Then this new baking workshop is perfect for you. Here, you will learn to make flourless chocolate keto cake, flaxseed keto crackers and low carb almond keto bread.19 MondayWhere: Palate Culinary AcademyEntry: R4,500Log on: insider.in
Attend a music therapy workshop10 am onwards: Learn and master the skills and techniques behind music therapies like guided music listening, memory and stimulation, etc, which induce improvements instress tolerance. Such creative arts therapies are both fun and enriching.20 TuesdayWhere: Mindsight Clinic, Malad WestEntry: Rs 12,000Log on: meraevents.com
Head for an entertaining night9 pm: Theatrix Entertainment will tickle your bones with The Bear, which is one of the famous stories written by Anton Chekhov. Experience this story where a widow swears to never love anyone else and a moneylender who comes to claim his debts.21 WednesdayWhere: Clap Centre, Malad WestEntry: Rs 1..
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Mumbai: Walking on a 400m death line in Palghar
Even as Palghar prepares to make room for the country's first bullet train, road infrastructure in several parts of the region continues to suffer neglect. For decades, the 2,000-odd residents of the villages of Vadhiv and Saravali in the district have been forced to walk through dirt roads and cross dangerous railway bridges, built over Vaitarna river, to reach the nearest railway station. Four people have died since March this year, after accidentally falling into the river, while attempting to cross the tracks on these bridges. The villagers are now demanding better road connectivity and a foot-over bridge to prevent any more casualties.
Vadhiv and Saravali are situated between Vaitarna and Safale railway stations, but there is no road to connect them to either of these stations. While Safale is nearly 10 km from the villages, Vaitarna station is 3.4 km away. In both the cases, it's only possible to reach the stations after crossing a 400m-stretch on the bridge—in this scenari..
Green Humour: Comic Strip By Rohan Chakravarty
Aryavarta
The word 'Aryavarta' has become quite popular. There are novels written about it, tele-serials based upon it, and it is increasingly being associated with an extremist Hindu vision of the past. But, the word 'Aryavarta' means land of the civilised people. Those who spoke Sanskrit were considered civilised, much as in Europe, in Classical times, when those who spoke Greek and Latin considered themselves to be civilised and non-Greeks to be barbarians.
What we do know is the word 'Aryavarta' is found in two places. One in the Avestan manuscripts found in Iran. The Avestan manuscripts of the Zoroastrian people gives rise to the word Iran and it is supposed to be one of the 16 lands sacred to Ahura Mazda. People are not sure if this land, which is said to be in the north, actually refers to Afghanistan, Kazakhstan or Kashmir.
Most Indians don't realise that the country of Iran is named after its Aryan heritage. This Aryan heritage was established in Iran over 1,800 years ago with the rise ..
Nikki Bella: Will be weird to double-date ex-boyfriend John Cena
American professional wrestler Nikki Bella has said she will never go on a double-date with her ex-fiance and WWE star John Cena, because it would be weird.
The Total Bellas star had split with her fiance last year, just weeks before they were due to tie the knot.
Nikki is currently dating Russian professional dancer, Artem Chigvintsev, and John is romancing Shay Shariatzadeh.
Speaking on The Bellas podcast with her twin sister Brie Bella, she said: "I'm gonna kill this [rumour] right now: I will never go on a double date with any of my exes. I don't want that...a double date is way different [than being friends with an ex]. I'm not gonna sit there and be making out with my man and see them make out with their girl. Like, that's just weird. What are we trying to prove at that point?
"I don't ever want to go on a double date with my ex — with any of my exes. And it'snothing against him, his girlfriend, any of them. There are boundaries. So you know what? My boundaries are, no, no..
'India-Pak talks only on PoK now'
Novak Djokovic falls flat against Daniil Medvedev
Cincinnati: World No. 1 Novak Djokovic wilted under pressure from Daniil Medvedev on Saturday, falling 3-6, 6-3, 6-3 to the ninth-seeded Russian in the Cincinnati Masters semi-finals.
Medvedev's upset win sent him into a title showdown with another unexpected finalist, 16th-seeded Belgian David Goffin, who defeated France's Richard Gasquet 6-3, 6-4 to reach his first ATP Masters 1000 final.
Novak caught out
A fuming Djokovic, who looked to have control of the contest in the early going, was caught out when Medvedev stepped things up in the second set. "I don't know how I turned it around, I was so tired after the first set and I thought I might not be able to keep up the intensity," said Medvedev.
"But I had a momentum chance in the second set and the crowd gave me energy," added the Russian, who will be playing his second Masters series final in eight days, after falling to Rafael Nadal in Montreal last Sunday.
"Novak had been destroying me on second serve, so I just went for it," Med..
Neil Nitin Mukesh on playing baddie in Saaho: Was worried that I may be replaced
Mumbai: BMC begins sealing city's leaky pipelines
The Dutch Mystery: We don't know why Mumbai police are delaying his arrest, says Avdhut Shinde
Ready for Ganesha?
"Why the sulk, Pheroze? I must admit that despite the long face, you are looking really 'with it', especially with those trendy earmuff-like things. Is it after you watched that film, Gully Boy? I believe it was quite the rage," Lady Flora's battery of questions didn't exactly go down well with her friend, Sir PM.
"Not Gully Boy but Ganesh Chaturthi. These 'things' are called noise cancelling headphones, and I have decided to wear this for as long as the 10-day festival carries on in the city. I am not quite sure if my hearing can take the high decibel levels any more. And, I actually thought you'd come by to wish me and the missus on Navroze. I know, it's peak tourist season for you, but a wave would have sufficed," Sir PM realised he might have said too much, after the last line was uttered, so quickly tried to amend things with, "here, try some lagan nu custard. It's a far cry from your Yorkshire pudding but I am sure you will appreciate it." Lady Flora took a few spoonfuls and reli..
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Munisha Khatwani finds her Mr Right; all set to marry Sameer Thakur
Celebrity tarot card reader-actor Munisha Khatwani is all set to marry next year. She met her Mr Right, Sameer Thakur, through an online dating app and the two have been dating for quite some time now. "Right from the time I met him, it always felt right with Sameer. I just felt very comfortable and it just felt that this is the right thing for me. He is very humble, kind and very loving. I felt comfortable with him and we soon started talking about anything and everything. It just felt like he was made for me. Even though the universe made me wait for a while, I got the best in the end," she says.
Munisha further adds, "He is Sindhi, so we are of the same caste and our families kind of knew each other, so things moved faster. We felt an instant connection with each other and within 7 days, he told me that he loves me and things just moved super fast!"
Munisha says that she always knew that although it might take longer, the right man for her will come along very soon. "People used to ..
'He was born, he joined the RSS and he died without accomplishing anything'
Where politics of reverence makes heroes, the politics of hate creates villains. Revolutionary leader, Hindu nationalist and writer Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (1883-1966), known otherwise as Veer Savarkar, is one such controversial and contested figure who has oscillated between the love-hate spectrum of the country's contemporary history. "The Congress has called Savarkar a traitor, the Congress and the Left have both accused him of writing mercy petitions to the British, the Hindu Right hails him as a hero, and others say he masterminded Mahatma Gandhi's assassination," says Mumbai-based writer and senior journalist Vaibhav Purandare, whose curiosity about this much maligned and equally revered historical figure, saw him invest five years of research into penning a new biography, Savarkar: The True Story of the Father of Hindutva (Juggernaut Books). Purandare who has previously authored Sachin Tendulkar: A Definitive Biography, and Bal Thackeray and the Rise of the Shiv Sena, says the..
A new nest
Gifting, as we know it, has changed overtime. These days, our focus lies on what will the receiver appreciate, and what is it that will create a memory. When Provenance opened last year at the Palladium Mall, it married luxury with utility while weaving in a story behind each artefact. Founders Samir Gadhok and Avani Raheja, the couple behind Burgundy Hospitality, floated the venture as they felt that there were a lot of premium global brands with a legacy that could find space in the Indian market. Raheja explains, "We were interested in the history of the world, stories of origin and preserving culture. So everything you find here has been handpicked and has a story to tell."
Their new outpost in Bandra is in contrast with the upmarket, swanky store at Lower Parel, yet retrains its aesthetic allure. Housed inside a quaint Bungalow in the heart of Chimbai village, this one is nostalgic, otherwordly and pleasing with its tall wooden ceiling, old-school windows, hanging planters and cle..
On home soil
For most tennis enthusiasts, the Australian Open is about the game, but for restaurateur and chef, Sarah Todd, the excitement goes beyond. "It's in the food line-up," she enthuses. What started as a tennis tournament has evolved into a cultural celebration. And now the MasterChef Australia favourite and owner of Mumbai's Wine Rack, will be part of an all-female lineup for the 'AO Chef Series'. Todd will create a degustation menu at The Glasshouse opposite the Rod Laver Arena during the Grand Slam tournament in January.
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How did you make the cut?In the last couple of years, I've been working in India and the Australian Tourism Board has been closely following my journey. When it comes to this massive event, they were on the lookout for an international face with whom a global audience could relate. Moreover, year on year, they get on board those who not only add that multi-cultural and versatile edge, but also appeal to a large number of Indian tourists who vi..
Three songs to have on your playlist or not
1 Slow Dance by AJ Mitchell featuring Ava Max: Put it on and gaze out of your taxi window, wondering who you will get to slow dance with next. Let your fantasy run wild. You never know! "I need a romance, one chance"—ask the universe whatever you want. It's got a killer hook, too.
2 Hot Girl Summer by Megan Thee Stallion: If you are not in a dreamy mood, then listen to this hip hop ditty, that will have you strutting your stuff all across town.
Katy Perry
3 Small Talk by Katy Perry: "Isn't it weird, that you've seen me naked, we had conversations about forever, now it's about the weather, okay". The lyrics itself make this song worth listening to. It's also Perry, so it's a pop lover's delight.
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Mumbai: Zomato's Gold membership no longer viable
Tired of being arm-twisted by food aggregators into offering loss-making discounts to customers, over 1,350 restaurants in the country—all under the umbrella of the National Restaurant Association of India (NRAI) which has 5,00,000 restaurants across India as members—have logged out of the apps. If you are a customer of Zomato, EasyDiner, DineOut, Gourmet Passport, MagicPin and NearBuy, you will no longer be able to avail offers such as Zomato Gold's two-on-two drinks or a 50 per cent discount by DineOut for its ongoing festival.
The move, restaurateurs say, has been growing from small murmurs of angst, culminating into a final protest that was announced a day ahead of Independence Day. Rahul Singh, owner of The Beer Café, which has 40 outlets across India and NRAI's president, saying it's almost like a mass bunk at a college. "We took a unanimous decision to protest the arm-twisting methods followed by all aggregators. The fear of missing out [FOMO] became an epidem..
A platform for original screenwriting
The jury of Sanhita Manch, the theatre festival headed by Rasika Agashe and Zeeshan Ayyub, had to go through 77 Hindi and 75 Marathi scripts this year to shortlist four. These include Radhey, inspired by Ramdhari Singh Dinkar's classic poem Rashmirathi and set in the last two days of Karna's life; Kabab, about greed, corruption and capitalism, linked to the MRP of a kebab; Romeo Juliet in Smart Cities of Contemporary India, a love story based in the suburbs; and Adhyat Mi, Sadhyat Tu, which explores death, fate and the role of government in the two.
The festival is aimed at encouraging new scripts, about which Agashe says, "As an actor and director, I always want to do a new play and live with new scripts. In 2017, we were searching for a script, so I thought of a competition. The response was tremendous. Around 80 scripts, and many were good." The duo shared them with like-minded directors, and an idea became a festival. Ayyub says, "As a theatre group, such activities give us a push...
Three names, many histories and one pincode
What's in a name? Much, in an area as variously referred to as Kennedy Bridge, Pavan Pul or Congress House. Tell a cabbie "Kennedy Bridge" and he says "Pavan Pul bolo na." Asking for Congress House, I hear "Aap Shapur Baug jayenge?" He has decided I must live in this Parsi enclave off Grant Road.
Kennedy Sea Face (Marine Drive) is named for Lieutenant Colonel Michael Kavanagh Kennedy who served in the Engineers in Bombay. Kennedy Bridge, however, is for John Pitt Kennedy, Government Railway Engineer in 1850.
Saadat Hasan Manto called this Pavan Pul—Bridge of Breeze. The Urdu author was windblown walking from Byculla, where he lived, to Nana Chowk, where he worked at Jyoti Film Studio for Ardeshir Irani, director of the first talkie. In 1937, Manto wrote Kisan Kanya for Irani, the first indigenously processed film. The colourful mujra dancers' kothas around Congress House featured in his story Haarta Chala Gaya.
Vitthalbhai Patel Road (after Sardar Patel's elder brother, co-found..
A woman, thinking
A woman, asleep on a train, wakes up suddenly to find she is the lone passenger. Terrified, she tries to pull the chain but it is broken. The train pulls into a station. She gets off, but it is eerily deserted. As the train leaves, it is suddenly full of people, leaning out, waving, laughing. Desperately, she chases after the train. Abruptly, she wakes up. It was a nightmare.
This is how the film Rajnigandha (Tuberoses) begins: inside the mind of its protagonist Deepa, played by one of Hindi cinema's most unusual heroines, Vidya Sinha, who died last week.
Rajnigandha, based on a short story by the celebrated Hindi writer Mannu Bhandari, remains true to its beginning. It features several train journeys, but is essentially a young woman's internal journey as she tries to figure herself out.
Deepa is engaged to the prosaic Sanjay (Amol Palekar). He brings her tuberoses, a flower whose appearance, like his, is unassuming, but whose fragrance, like him, is steady. In Bombay for a job interv..
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Theatre for all
The National Council Of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), in its preamble to the revised arts curriculum that covers fine art, dance, music and theatre for schools, states that children must be exposed to the best professional artistes in immersive experiential ways.
Theatre and arts organisation Junoon is working hard towards fulfilling this aim. Two years ago, they initiated an inclusive programme to enable children from less privileged backgrounds to experience theatre across the country. Realised with support from the Lal Jamal Fund and local partners in cities like Patna, Bikaner, Ludhiana, Pune, Nagpur, Mumbai, Delhi and Agra, it has reached 5,400 children across seven cities from over 20 different NGOs and government schools.
Kids with postcards on which they wrote a review of the play
Junoon's co-founder Sanjna Kapoor says, "We believe that the arts, and theatre especially, must be an essential part of every child's growing years. It triggers the mind, heart, senses an..
Dessert drama
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Remember the cronut craze, when the world went gaga over a pastry that was a combination of a croissant and a doughnut? Well, if you, like us are always intrigued by what happens when two desserts make some sweet love, Blendorama, which calls itself a hybrid dessert café, did manage to pique our interest. While the freakshakes (done to death in this city by now) and candy floss ice cream (ice cream served on a flavoured candyfloss-topped cone) doesn't seem exciting, we take a trip to Charni Road to test if the eatery truly makes an extra effort in fusing and not just plating different desserts together.
Demolition day wonut
In addition to freakshakes, milkshakes and candyfloss ice cream, Blendorama also offers cookie shots, browniewich and wonuts. They offer discounts if you buy more than three desserts for those who set major saccharine goals. We first pick the cookie shot with a..
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Hurt no more
Most of us have spent the better part of our lives thinking of pain as an inevitable by-product of an injury or an ailment. A turn-of-the-century declaration by the United States Congress, which proclaimed 2001-2010 as the "Decade of Pain", however, has played a major role in transforming this perception. Today, pain is no longer perceived by the medical fraternity as only a "physical entity", but as a more complex amalgamation of physical, psychological, social, cultural and spiritual factors. This, say Dr Mary Abraham, a pain management and palliative care specialist at Max Hospital, and Dr Vandana V Prakash, a mental health and behavioural sciences expert, who are also the authors of a new book titled Conquering Pain (HarperCollins India), has had a transformative impact on the way pain is managed and treated.
Understanding pain
Pain, as defined by the International Association of the Study of Pain, is both an unpleasant physical and emotional experience — this means that dist..
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See photos: Coldd Lassi Aur Chicken Masala and Mission Over Mars' grand launch
ALTBalaji and ZEE5, the two OTT industry giants recently announced a content alliance, where they will co-create 60+ originals. Following the announcement, the OTT platforms launched the trailer of two Originals - Coldd Lassi Aur Chicken Masala and Mission Over Mars (M-O-M). These co-created Originals will be available on both platforms, further bolstering their content library. The trailers were launched in the presence of Ekta Kapoor and ZEE5 Programming Head, Aparna Acharekar. Adding a dose of glamour were popular actors from both shows – Divyanka Tripathi, Rajeev Khandelwal, Sakshi Tanwar, Mona Singh, Nidhi Singh and Palomi Ghosh.
Starring heartthrob Rajeev Khandelwal and the reigning queen of television Divyanka Tripathi, Coldd Lassi aur Chicken Masala is a story of two aspiring Chefs- Nitya and Vikram. The trailer gives a sneak peek into their lives as they fall in love but get separated due to circumstances. The trailer successfully builds curiosity among viewers, while mo..
Saree for hire
A typical saree hoarder will splurge on the garment, like bibliophiles on books. You may not have an occasion that merits the indulgence, neither would you care about the space-crunch in your wardrobe. You just buy it, because like the blurb of a book and the author whose name stares back at you on the cover, there is little to second-guess when you see a fine weave, or a stand-out print on a running piece of cloth. What one doesn't realise is that any collection—be it books or sarees—is susceptible to wear and tear. The more you hoard, the more they beg for attention. "But nobody has time to wear a saree every single day," says Mumbai-based media professional and saree lover, Sonia Kulkarni.
It's one of the reasons why Kulkarni and award-winning social entrepreneur Revathi Roy launched a new initiative, The Saree Library, last week. The online saree rental platform on Facebook and Instagram, provides a wide range of drapes from Roy and Kulkuarni's own personal collections,..
How one brave Keralite rattled the British
'By accepting Sir Michael O'Dwyer's challenge, Sir Sankaran Nair had put the British constitution and the British people on trial. They [were] tried and found wanting.'Mahatma Gandhi
History buffs that we are, this strong statement by the Father of the Nation that graces the jacket of the just-released book, The Case that Shook the Empire (Bloomsbury) proved enough temptation to devour it in 48 hours. Surprised that such an important case had skipped our history textbooks through school and college, we looked forward to our meeting with the writers who had pieced this case together. First to greet us at their Pedder Road home is Raghu Palat, banker, consultant, teacher and prolific author. "So, did the book draw your attention?" he enquires, as we settle into their artfully done living room. His wife, Pushpa, a bestselling author and veteran journalist for over three decades, joins us. And soon enough, we begin to join the dots on this explosive case that rocked Britain and the Indian ..
Avantika Malik quits a Bollywood life for one behind the bar
A Brit who is just like the city of Mumbai
Chaotic, fast, unorganised, exciting, fun," is how Richard Lovatt, a Brit, describes Mumbai in a small clip from a documentary being made on his life, Rich in Bollywood. That's also how he describes himself, and it's no wonder that the 28-year-old actor and fitness trainer says that he has effortlessly integrated into the city. "So many don't like it. People ask questions like, 'What about the traffic, what about the pollution?' I don't even think of these things. The way Mumbai is, is the way I am, and how I love my life—hectic, unorganised and yet fun and exciting. So, it's a perfect fit," he tells us over the phone from Bengaluru, where he is shooting at the moment. "I have ADHD and the city is also like that, right? So, it agrees with me."
Rich in Bollywood is being made by Lovatt's cousin and well-known Canada-based filmmaker Nicolas Levesque, who rang Lovatt up one day and said, "Let's do this." "He got a grant to make a film, and he zeroed in on my story. I think it's kind..
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The art of tidying your copy
Why can't I start a sentence with 'and'?" I had asked my English professor in college. "Because it's the rule," she'd said astutely. "But, we do it all the time in spoken English," I argued. "If it were written English, you are wrong again, Miss. You don't start a sentence with a 'but' either," she said, adjusting her spectacles on her head.
I have broken that rule over a hundred times in my writing career. Because sometimes, there's no better way to break a sentence than start with an 'and'. Now, I am glad it's been acknowledged in Dreyer's English: How to Write Clearly and Stylishly by Benjamin Dreyer (Random House), a buoyant set of rules for good writing by a man who has been mending authors' words his entire life.
In the introduction, Dreyer says he would reveal "fancy little tricks" he has "come across or devised to make even skilled writing better". And, he has done so with utmost sincerity and a good dose of humour. In the first chapter, he starts with challenging the reader t..
Mumbai: Two-year-old dies in a freak pothole accident in Thane
Mumbai's potholes have become the jaws of death again. In Shanti Nagar, Ulhasnagar, a two-year-old boy died after his uncle's bike toppled. In a strange series of events, when a truck went over a deep-seated pothole, the jerk caused its tyre to burst, which broke the ring of the tyre and hit the bike behind. The bike was carrying three people, one of whom was a toddler, who passed away soon after arriving at the hospital.
On Friday evening, the truck was transporting some heavy material in Shanti Nagar when it neared the pothole. The busted ring hit the bike so hard that the rider couldn't control his bike and fell down. The three riders were Arjun Pal (30), Sabulla Chaudhari (16), and Habibulla Chaudhari (2). They were immediately taken to the nearby Maxlife Hospital.
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Rhe ring from the truck's tyre
A spokesperson from the hospital said, "Habibulla had a serious injury on his head. When we took him for an MRI, h..
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Where are the men?
"Are you a virgin?" Ajith Kumar, playing a lawyer, asks his own client, a woman, this offensive personal question, and in an open court. The woman looks him in the eye and says no, unrepentant and without guilt—as any man would. In this, and many other effective ways, H Vinoth's Nerkonda Paarvai (Direct Gaze), the quietly powerful Tamil remake of Pink, calls out our double standards when it comes to women's morality. Pink, starring Amitabh Bachchan and Taapsee Pannu, was directed by Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury in 2016. Nerkonda Paarvai is a superbly directed film led by Ajith Kumar, one of Tamil cinema's biggest stars. The prosecution claims that the men were not molesters, but the girls were of loose morals and soliciting. Ajith emphasises that regardless of a woman's virginity, character or any circumstance: No. Means. No.
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