Shivaay trailer 2 is more impressive and sees Ajay Devgn as a protective father who goes at length to rescue his daughter, played by Abigail Eames. Shivaay has a new trailer and Ajay Devgn has revealed a new facet, both of his personality and of the film. While the first Shivaay trailer was high on action sequences, this trailer is all about beautiful bonding between a father and daughter. Ajay, […]
In the last eight years, 58 manual scavengers have died on duty. Within five months of getting married and a little over a year after Venkatramana took up manual scavenging, he became a statistic. Twenty-four-year-old Venkatramana, a Dalit, died of asphyxiation on October 18 after entering sewage treatment plant in Shantinivas Apartment near Yeshwantpur Railway station in Bengaluru. Manjunath, a Veerashaiva, who entered the septic tank along with Venkatramana, died […]
Perhaps one of the most bewildering things about Konkona Sen Sharma’s directorial debut, A Death in the Gunj, is not being able to label or categorise it under a genre. This is the first thought I had when I walked out of its India premiere at the Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival 2016. Is this film an indie-drama? “Artsy fartsy”, as someone who watched the film with me, said? Parallel […]
According to Forbes, the total wealth of India’s top five billionaires, which stands at a whopping $83.7 billion, is more than the cost of 1,230 Mars Orbiter ‘Mangalyaan’ Missions and is more than 18 times the cost of hosting the 2016 Rio Olympics. Industrialist Mukesh Ambani, who has been named India’s richest person for the ninth year in a row with a sharp increase in net worth to $22.7 billion, […]
“How are you?” “Long time, how have you been?” “What’s up?” What’s common between these sentences is the ugly truth that neither the question nor the answer is ever genuine. But hey, isn’t she always smiling? Don’t let that fool you. Look into her eyes; she might be breaking inside. Before we experience this gem of a video, let’s get a few facts straight so that we’re on the same […]
As the social media campaign calling to boycott the Chinese goods gains momentum, Beijing’s media said that products manufactured by Indian firms cannot compete with those of the China. In a straight-forward op-ed, Chinese daily Global Times today said that New Delhi can only ‘bark’ and do nothing about the growing trade deficit between two countries. “Indian manufacturing cannot compete at all with Chinese products, for various reasons,” it reads. […]
Ponnusamy* is the first doctor from Tamil Nadu’s Pudukottai village. Returning to practice there after he obtained his degree, he learned that there was one disease he could not cure: Casteism, which afflicted both his patients and his colleagues in the medical community. Some of the earliest memories that Ponnusamy has, are of Dalits in his village being treated like slaves. “We were not allowed to wear shirts and slippers. […]
NEW YORK : A New York fertility specialist, who said he successfully carried out a “three-parent” in vitro fertilization (IVF) technique resulting in a baby boy, called the procedure a “revolutionary approach in human reproduction.” John Zhang, medical director of New Hope Fertility Center in New York, spearheaded the technique roughly five months ago with a Jordanian couple at a clinic in Mexico. The procedure, which the U.S. […]
The first trailer of Vin Diesel starrer xXx: Return of Xander Cage just had a few glimpses of Indian beauty Deepika Padukone but the brand new trailer of the Hollywood actioner has the Bollywood hottie all the way. The film marks Deepika’s Hollywood debut in style. Since its inception, the film has been making headlines in India as moviegoers in the country are eager to see Deepika make a […]
Bowlers set up India’s comprehensive six-wicket win over New Zealand in the first one-day international as batting mainstay Virat Kohli anchored the hosts’ chase in the low-scoring encounter in Dharamsala on Sunday. The hosts, who were chasing a modest 191 for victory, rode on the 60-run partnership betwen Kohli (85 not out) and skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni to canter home in 33.1 overs. But it was the bowling led by debutant […]
