'Awaara' added to Time's 100 greatest films

'Awaara' added to Time's 100 greatest films Washington: Time magazine has included Raj Kapoor's 1951 classic 'Awaara' among 20 new entries added to its All-Time 100 list of the greatest films made since 1923, the beginning of the prestigious US periodical. Rethinking the movie masterpieces, Time critic Richard Corliss describes Raj Kapoor as 'the great star-auteur of India's postcolonial golden age of movies - Cary Grant and Cecil B. DeMille in one handsome package.' "The '50s films...
07:09 PM, May 28, 2012

Why Hollywood can't get enough of 'Devdas'

Why Hollywood can't get enough of 'Devdas' New Delhi: If you recall the sheer opulence of Baz Luhrmann's musical Moulin Rouge, complimenting Craig Armstrong and Marius de Vries's music, you will find it easier to justify Sanjay Leela Bhansali's magnum opus Devdas' place in the '10 Greatest Movies of the Millennium' list compiled by the Time magazine. A decade after it was released in seven languages, the grandeur of Devdas continues to enamour an audience in the...
05:24 PM, May 24, 2012

Time ranks 'Devdas' in millennium's top ten

Time ranks 'Devdas' in millennium's top ten Washington: Time magazine has ranked Bollywood director Sanjay Leela Bhansali's 2002 film 'Devdas' eighth among the ten greatest movies of the millennium with 'WALL.E' at the top and 'The Artist' in the tenth spot. It described Shah Rukh Khan as an 'all-world charismatist' and Madhuri Dixit 'a hot number who danced flamencos on men's libidos'. "A year after 'Moulin Rouge!' had its world premiere at Cannes, another visually intoxicating musical...
05:23 PM, May 21, 2012
Time magazine's cover on breast-feeding kicks up a storm

Time magazine's cover on breast-feeding kicks up a storm

A Time Magazine cover showing a mother breast feeding her 4-yr-old son has sparked a parenting row amongst its readers. ...
06:12 PM, May 12, 2012

TIME's provocative cover: breastfeeding mom

TIME's provocative cover: breastfeeding mom TIME magazine's newest cover for North America, showing a stay-at-home mother in Los Angeles breastfeeding her over-three-year-old son is drawing flak from different quarters for being too provocative. The photo shows Jamie Lynne Grumet, 26, a stay-at-home mom in Los Angeles who told the magazine that her mother breastfed her until she was six. TIME's American cover is on a style of child-rearing where nursing and breastfeeding a baby beyond...
06:59 PM, May 11, 2012

Mamata Banerjee invited to Time Magazine dinner

Mamata Banerjee invited to Time Magazine dinner Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people of the world, has been invited by the publication to a gala dinner with the who's who in New York on April 24. "It will be a gala black tie formal dinner where the who's who will be present. The invitation was received by the Chief Minister's office on Friday," a...
05:13 PM, Apr 21, 2012

After railways, Mamata now sending Bengal to ICU: CPM

After railways, Mamata now sending Bengal to ICU: CPM Kolkata: Ridiculing West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's claim that her government has completed most of its tasks in its very first year, Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader Surjya Kanta Mishra on Friday said after having sent the railways to the ICU as railway minister, she was now doing the same to the state. "As railway minister, she has sent the railways to the Intensive Care Unit. Now she...
10:20 PM, Apr 20, 2012

Anjali Gopalan, the other Indian in Time's 100 list

Anjali Gopalan, the other Indian in Time's 100 list New Delhi: We all heard of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee making it to the Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Another Indian to make it to the coveted list is advocate and gender rights activist Anjali Gopalan. Gopalan, 54, is the founder and Executive Director of The Naz Foundation (India) Trust, an NGO dedicated to the fight against the HIV/AIDS epidemic in...
06:54 PM, Apr 19, 2012

Time's 100 most influential people in the world

Time's 100 most influential people in the world The Time Magazine has released the list of 100 most influential people in the world, which includes people such as artists, reformers, researchers, head of states and captains of industry. From India, the list includes two names, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and eminent lawyer Anjali Gopalan. The list further includes US President Barack Obama, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Pakistan Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry and footballer Lionel...
10:41 PM, Apr 18, 2012

Mamata among world's most influential: Time

Mamata among world's most influential: Time New York: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was on Wednesday named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people of the world. Banerjee chose to dedicate the "inclusion" to the people of Bengal. "I don't care about conspiracies. I dedicated the Time magazine inclusion to the people of Bengal," she said. Banerjee now joins a club of "people who inspire us, entertain us, challenge us and...
06:16 PM, Apr 18, 2012
FTN: Are the Internet polls easily manipulated?

FTN: Are the Internet polls easily manipulated?

Barely a fortnight after Narendra Modi was on the cover of Time magazine, he has now got the highest number of negative votes in an Internet poll conducted by Time magazine. ...
11:56 PM, Apr 11, 2012

Modi tops 'No' list in Time magazine poll

Modi tops 'No' list in Time magazine poll Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has finished third in the Time magazine's global poll on the 100 most influential people. The two who got ahead of Modi are a group of hackers called Anonymous and anti-piracy law champion Eric Martin after a nail-biting finish. However, what may have disappointed Modi backers more is that the BJP leader got more 'No' votes (266684) than the 'Yes' ones (256792) when the readers...
10:17 AM, Apr 09, 2012

Modi manipulating Time magazine's survey: Cong

Modi manipulating Time magazine's survey: Cong Ahmedabad: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, who had recently figured on Time magazine's cover, is "manipulating" the magazine's ongoing online survey to decide the 100 most influential people in the world, state Congress chief Arjun Modhvadia alleged on Wednesday. Talking to reporters in Ahmedabad, Modhvadia said, "Modi has sent hundreds of emails through various portals of Gujarat government to the people, asking them to vote for him at the Time...
04:46 AM, Apr 05, 2012

Time of his life: has US finally embraced Modi?

Time of his life: has US finally embraced Modi? William J Antholis, Managing Director of The Brookings Institution, on March 16, 2012 wrote the following about Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on the institute's website: "I came away thinking that this was a man America needed to know better. He may never be able to move past his role in the 2002 riots. But he is a talented and effective political leader, and will continue pushing New Delhi and...
06:35 PM, Apr 04, 2012
FTN: Will the Time magazine cover on Modi boost his image?

FTN: Will the Time magazine cover on Modi boost his image?

Time magazine praises Narendra Modi in an article for development of Gujarat which he has been ruling for over a decade but wonders if he can become the Prime Minister. ...
11:59 PM, Mar 19, 2012
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