Shah Rukh Khan is the living example of why Bollywood, quite like cricket, is a parallel religion in India. Thankfully, on this occasion, it’s a religion that brings people together and doesn’t divide them. But that said, probably everyone concurs…
A Humble Tribute to the Late Meena Kumari
Long before the term glamour even became a recurring phrase and perhaps an overused one, it came to depict a glorious woman. Long before women like Madhuri Dixit, Aishwarya Rai or Suchitra Sen further beautified beauty, a revered artiste personified…
What’s it about Christian Bale that’s so different from other Hollywood actors?
There’s some lethal form of energy, in an almost inwardly sense about the phrase implode. The complete opposite to explode where devastation wrecks on the outside if a thing implodes, the literature suggests, the wreckage is caused from within. But…
Presenting Tilda Swinton in a never-seen before avatar for new film
Beauty with brains is a rare combination they say. But add more charm to it and you get Tilda Swinton. She’s not just an actress, she’s a rock-star. She’s both the iceberg as well as the Titanic. She can save…
Epic mission! Tom Cruise’ Mission Impossible claims record-breaking $61.5 million in 1st week
His mission, should he chose to accept it, is to often do record-breaking, awe-inspiring stunts and feats that stir up the world’s attention toward sitting back in sheer admiration. A combination of fire-and-ice, including his cool breezy style and the…
What was Shah Rukh Khan doing on a Police poster?
Shah Rukh Khan is the one man who can make the violins play themselves and put pianos and guitars function on autopilot. There is no melody made on earth that cannot function on his tunes and no girl anywhere in…
It’s not looking all that good for Assam at the moment in India
To the outsiders or westerners, Assam is a state that happens to be on the northeastern front of India. But to the locals and those from within India, Assam is a cultural heritage of the world’s second-most populated country. The…
Thanks to social media, remains of French skier, missing in the Alps, found after 64 years
It’s not only the friendships and bonds that the social media helps forge for an individual. It’s even leading to breakthrough discoveries, believe it or not. About 64 years ago, a noted French skier Henri La Masne had gone missing. Henri…
What is Kim Kardashian’s body weight- take a guess?
When she dons a bikini, it becomes the talk of the town and puts more energy in the sun. When she takes it off, the night comes calling, a bit too soon. When she decks up gorgeously as she often…
A security guard in Mumbai breeched past NSG security to telephone a threat call on Modi’s life
First up some pun: “We are really living in unbelievable times. The truth out there is more horrifying than Hardik Pandya’s changing hairstyle.” Now, let’s get to the serious talk. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is amongst the rare figures in…
Meet the silly donkey crushing fat tourists of Greece
You have heard the phrase intrepid traveller. You have also probably heard of the phrase Wanderlust over and over again. You have the curious and hungry traveller always keen to embrace sunshine in different parts of the world but what…
Full Throttle! A Poem Celebrating Fernando Alonso
Cool as a cucumber Age is just a number, You’ll keep hearing rhetorics time and again, Undaunted you moved then, unstoppable seems your game, You never needed nick-names, Yet you were anointed some, A few called you…
Chris Gayle has proven there’s still fight left in him for his Windies
Not your best man when you’re probing his technique. Not an ideal fit for a Dream XI consisting of technically virtuous batsmen. He can purchase the biggest house in the Caribbean. But he cannot buy footwork in any part of…
Twitter just observed its second-biggest loss ever
It’s just been reported that the world’s most loved and keenly-followed micro-blogging platform Twitter has evidenced a big loss. The enormity of this loss is so sudden and huge that it’s being regarded that this is the second-biggest loss that…
Why is no one talking about the Indian Blind Cricket Team?
They beat Pakistan recently to clinch another edition of the Blind Cricket World Cup. And when you win against Pakistan- given the intense rivalry Pakistan’s closest neighbour shares with it- it’s supposed to be a mega achievement. They’ve always given…
Soon, a number of Indian villages are expected to get free Wi-Fi
We are in times where the Internet isn’t greed, but a need. It’s, in fact, a major birth-right of sorts. Perhaps, it’s impossible to comprehend the contemporary times minus the Internet. It’s absolutely essential. But while the internet is pivotal…
Save Virat the blues, get back to scoring runs Pujara, Rahane in England
In the contest against Essex, an important practice game for Team India, there were concerns looming large around the top order. Dhawan- 0 and Pujara- 1 and you knew immediately that this isn’t a great start to the Test ambition…
Jennifer Lopez had a rather sultry way to ring in her 49th birthday
Alright, Michael Jackson may have got the world on the disco stage but when Jennifer Lopez says “Get on the floor” then you don’t want to leave it. You leave nothing to the imagination when she says “Waiting for Tonight”…
A big up for India under the Modi Government!
Today when one speaks about India, one cannot simply rest on the laurels of it being a cultural wonderland. That’s like restricting the land of Gandhi, Bose, Nehru and, where Bollywood and Cricket are nearly religious entities. In other words,…
The Top Bollywood celebs who’ve got a fancy wax replica at Madame Tussauds
In artistic endeavour, Madame Tussauds is to London what the Louvres is to Paris, the city of love. You don’t simply land at the mega cosmopolitan hub called London to merely see the Buckingham Palace or the try and spot…
Salman Khan’s new look for upcoming film Bharat revealed
Few actors generate the frenzy of excitement that Salman Khan does. Truth be told, a movie after another and one doesn’t know which one would be a bigger Salman Khan juggernaut. He became a big popular culture symbol with Dabangg.…
Hop on the next flight to America and gorge on these choicest American burgers
America. One name, multiple values, existences and, multiple sub-cultures. Among them, surely movies and art are a blossoming up-tide. Right on top America. Google’s home, Facebook’s land. The land of the great Abe, the place where Nikola Tesla breathed his…
Arjun Rampal shares plush pictures of his swanky Mumbai apartment
Hrithik might have the Greek God looks, Saif may have the stubble to interest the witty, articulate women and Shahid Kapoor may have the puppy-eyed innocence about him. But Arjun Rampal has ‘still got it’. And he has plenty going…
How much caffeine do you really need to consume? Guess who has the answer to the puzzle?
You know the defence establishments of a country to work as sentinels in national security. You know the armies of different countries as the fortifications that protect a republic from mayhem and unwanted military strikes. We associate soldiers with bravery,…
Why is no one talking about Nico Hulkenberg?
“Lack of podiums will not weary him, his speed will not detest him” What’s your take about Nico Hulkenberg? Isn’t he the ‘somewhere in the middle’ sort of a man? In a lighter vein, had Hollywood set out to carve…