After Unmukt Chand led his team to the Under 19 World Cup trophy, there has been a lot of talk about youngsters breaking into the national team. We look at those who made it big, those who didn't, and those still hoping for another chance. THEY MADE IT BIG: Batch of 1998: Virender Sehwag and Harbhajan Singh. Both have been mainstays of the national side for over a decade now....
04:57 PM, Sep 24, 2012
It's not an easy time to be running a studio floor business in India. Kamalistan and Filmalaya in Mumbai, Gemini and Vijayavahini in Chennai, and Technician and Indrapuri in Kolkata have all sold out to builders or governments because no one's shooting in them anymore. Mehboob Studios in Mumbai has reinvented itself as an arts venue in the last couple of years. Very few shoots actually take place there. But...
12:00 PM, Aug 03, 2012
The residents of Dholakpur are a resilient lot. They regularly brave demons, robbers, evil wrestlers and various other calamities, big and small. They have a timid, but benevolent king in Raja Indraverma and a beautiful princess in Indumati. And of course, they have Bheem because of whom they emerge unscathed from various assaults. Bheem is the nine-year-old protagonist of Pogo TV's wildly successful animated show Chhota Bheem that runs for...
10:21 AM, Jun 28, 2012
Of all the people in the world, I shouldnt be a producer, says Anurag Kashyap. I dont understand accounts. But someone has to step up and make these movies, he adds. Kashyap, for those who dont know, is best known as the director of 'Black Friday' and 'Dev D'. For those in the know, Kashyap is an uncompromising film-maker who makes the films he wants to make. One of his...
11:49 AM, May 10, 2012
First Full Length Film Film: Raja Harishchandra Year of release: 1913 It was a sign of things to come that this film - produced and directed by Dadasaheb Phalke - was a huge success. The film was first shown on May 3, 1913 at Mumbai's Coronation Cinema, Girgaon, where crowds thronged the roads outside the hall. First Film To Face A Censorship Controversy Film: Bhakta Vidur Year of release: 1921...
02:31 PM, May 09, 2012
Summer is almost upon us. And that means only one thing: Mangoes! The early alphonsos hit the streets of Mumbai mid-February and in Gujarat in the last week of February. This year, because of the extended winter, the harvest has been delayed; expect the fruit to be available freely starting April"a good two-week delay. Down South, matters are not much better with Cyclone Thane playing its part. On the whole,...
11:09 AM, Mar 26, 2012
You wouldn't associate someone who commanded three nuclear bases at the height of the Cold War in the 1970s with running the world's largest entertainment businesses. But that's exactly what Bill Roedy has done, and this book chronicles that journey. Roedy graduated from West Point (the US military academy) and served in Vietnam before commanding nuclear bases in North Italy. He left the army after 11 years to pursue an...
10:50 AM, Mar 09, 2012
On the face of it, this may sound contrived. But fact is, to understand cricket and the skulduggery that now beleaguers the sport all of us Indians love so hopelessly, you ought to understand a bit of how the cement business operates in this country. This, for one simple reason: N Srinivasan " president of the Board of Cricket Control in India (BCCI), head of the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association,...
10:44 AM, Mar 09, 2012
Its springtime. Love is in the air. We decided to take a look at what flowers are selling the most during this period. We did a dipstick survey across Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore. It was no surprise that roses topped the list in all cities. Lilies were next followed by a bunch of other beauties but they were too far down the line to write of. Prices of both roses...
10:59 AM, Feb 24, 2012
Part detective, part academic, part chronicler, Stephen Tankel provides what is arguably one of the finest and most detailed accounts of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), the terrorist group that represents the greatest threat to India. The hook for the book is the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks when 10 trained LeT fighters wreaked havoc in South Mumbai. That was the turning point for LeT when it announced to the world that it had...
11:39 AM, Feb 11, 2012
This spring, there is music in the air. Here are some music festivals that will leave you whistling a tune. Sulafest 2012 Location: Sula Vineyards, Nashik When: February 4-5 Artists: Nitin Sawhney, Blackstratblues, Papon & East India Company Damage: Rs. 1,800. The highlight this year is undoubtedly Nitin Sawhney. He is a huge favourite of Rajeev Samant, founder and CEO of Sula Vineyards. Area79 Music and Arts Festival Location: The...
12:43 PM, Feb 10, 2012
Prelude It was near sunset on November 26, 2008. Somewhere off the west coast of Mumbai, a group of young men were waiting for darkness, in a boat without lights, waiting so they could land, unobserved, at a fishing village near the southern tip of the elongated island city. Captain Ravi Dharnidharka gazed out over the fishermens huts lining the Arabian Sea coast. A US Marine of Indian descent, he...
12:15 PM, Nov 28, 2011
The Chinese are sensitive when it comes to the South China Sea. They consider it to be a matter of core national interest, like Taiwan and Tibet. They are possessive about it. Malaysia, Brunei and Japan are already in dispute over the Sea with the Chinese. And naturally, if India enters this dispute and China doesn't protest, it doesn't give a right signal to other countries. It was a ploy...
12:06 PM, Nov 09, 2011
Cricket historian Gideon Haighs book is a collection of essays that chronicles the travails of the cricket world in the second half of the past decade. He trains his guns on the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), the International Cricket Council (ICC), the Indian Premier League (IPL), Allen Stanford, Lalit Modi and spot fixing, as he tries to makes sense of the cacophony surrounding The Gentlemans Game....
11:13 AM, Oct 10, 2011
Former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger fathered a child with his household help a decade ago, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund, is accused of sexual assault and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is standing trial for statutory rape. Magazines and newspapers have slammed the men in question, often bunching them together; Time Magazines May 30 issue calls them pigs which is a bit harsh on Schwarzenegger. The Terminator...
12:42 PM, Jun 16, 2011
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