TRUE REVIEW: MAHABHARAT

Rating: 1.5 stars

Director: Amaan Khan

Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Ajay Devgn, Anil Kapoor, Jackie Shroff, Sunny Deol, Vidya Balan, Deepti Naval, Manoj Bajpayee...

Michael McIntyre’s Christmas Charity Show, Hammersmith Apollo, London

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‘Without the web, I’d still be searching for a diagnosis’

Amy Garton-Hughes is 22, but the size of an eight-year-old.

She has Cockayne Syndrome – a rare genetic disorder which degenerates the body an...

Bollywood year in review: groans and some moans

Full-throated huzzahs, polite claps, furrowed brows and growly boos in the direction of Bollywood in 2013

A year of high-concept and low-recall movies, numbers twos...

Bill Gates Looks Ahead

If you measure progress — as I do — by the decreasing number of children who die of preventable causes or by the growing number of people who escape extreme pov...

Of Khobragade, Richards, Equality, Fairness & Uniformity

I’ve been following the Devyani Khobragade story since its emergence at the prime centre of global media, and to me, it smacks of one more gaping hole, bigger than th...

Television’s AAM AADMI – Comedy Night with Kapil Sharma

As a child I read a story about a very famous circus clown, who was unrivalled in his art. One night, as he was getting dressed for the show, his wife took very ill, and di...

The Stow Away Who Touched Our Lives

As was customary, when our friend SD’s ship sailed into Bombay Harbor, my mother, brother and I visited his ship. As we headed towards the bridge, we saw two havaldar...

Challenging Patriarchy: The challenging definition of women's empowerment

“Everyone uses the word ‘empowerment,’” said the UN Foundation’s Alaka Basu at the Wilson Center on October 10. “It’s now such an ...