Mumbai: British supermodel Naomi Campbell's planned elephant polo match for boyfriend Vladimir Doronin's 50th birthday bash in Jodhpur has been criticised by animal activists group PETA. The 42-year-old is reportedly planning the match during the four-day long birthday celebrations. "PETA India urges Naomi Campbell to respect elephants and Indian wildlife and immediately withdraw her plans to organise this cruel sport. It's sad to appallingly predictable for her to exploit India's...
04:48 PM, Nov 05, 2012
New Delhi: Six books have been shortlisted for 'Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize 2012' of the Shakti Bhatt Foundation. There were 96 entries. The shortlisted books will be sent to the 2012 panel of judges, which consists of literary agent David Godwin, poet and novelist Tishani Doshi, and author Basharat Peer, said a foundation statement Thursday. The winner will be announced in the second half of November and the prize...
04:41 PM, Sep 10, 2012
New Delhi: The script has changed in Bollywood in the last 60 years - the women are more worldly, the men more macho and the cinema itself more techno-savvy, almost as good as Hollywood, says veteran cinema writer and critic Bhaichand Patel. "The women in Hindi cinema are more assertive though no less beautiful (than yesteryear ones), they often smoke on screen and they are equal to men. Mainstream cinema...
11:28 AM, Mar 28, 2012
Bunny Suraiya's 'Calcutta Exile' evokes a bygone era of one of the most vibrant and cosmopolitan cities in the world. It also raises questions about individual and collective identities, the foremost among which is: where is home? Set in Calcutta a decade after partition, the novel explores what happens to people when momentous change happens. Here's an excerpt from the book: Chapter 1: Ayah Ayah's name was Sohag Khatun, but...
06:25 PM, Nov 30, 2011
This is a story about four families caught in a vortex of history that changed millions of lives. Set in Calcutta a decade after Partition, the novel explores what happens to people when momentous change happens. Robert Ryan, an Anglo-Indian, is as much a son of Calcutta, as is his Muslim servant Ayah and the Bengali Ronen Mookerjee, but in each of their lives, circumstances have changed. Ryan feels that...
01:41 PM, Nov 02, 2011
There are two terrible things about Jug Suraiyas cleverly-named memoir. One is the - sigh - clever name, with the words js and The Times set in the typefaces of the logos of the long-departed and still lamented JS (alias, The Junior Statesman), and the still-thriving Times of India, just in case you didnt get it. The other is the ghastly cover design. Thankfully, everything beyond these is a delight....
11:17 AM, Sep 19, 2011
Dev Anand has made a special mention of Suraiya in his forthcoming autobiography titled
Romancing With Life. ...
06:43 PM, Jun 08, 2007
