The third part in the Masti film series, Great Grand Masti is about to hit screens, and its posters look somewhat like this. Not the best piece of art, definitely. Also, it’s objectifying women AF! Considering these fine qualities about the film’s posters, and in the wake of the recent Udta Punjab issue, the audience couldn’t help but wonder whether the Censor Board will take any necessary actions now and […]

Until 1981, Manjula Vaghela, now 60, used to work as a paper picker on the city streets for a living, earning Rs 5 per day. On rainy and cold days, this measly income would also elude her. Today, Manjula heads a cleaners’ cooperative with 400 members that provide cleaning and housekeeping services to 45 institutions and societies in Ahmedabad raking in a turnover of Rs 1 crore per annum!Manjula recalls […]

Bollywood actors Rajeev Khandelwal and Gauahar Khan have come together for upcoming Bollywood film ‘Fever’. Its trailer was recently released online and it is making a lot of waves on the social media, all thanks to its thrilling contents. The movie revolves around the life of an assassin who takes on the identity of a writer to escape the law. ‘Fever’ also features Gemma Atkinson, Catrerina Murino and Victor Bannnerjee […]

Day 9. It was right after the last day of Annual Exams for Monal of nearly fifteen years. The last paper was Science and in the Biology section she had to study only Botany. Zoology was slated for the whole of year next. The exams got over during the early part of the day and she was home by 9 am. There was a certain very breezy kind of light […]

Billionaire Warren Buffett has again auctioned off a private lunch to raise money for a San Francisco homeless charity, and this time the meal goes to the highest bidder for $3.4 million.  The bid of $3,456,789 from Friday night’s winner, who wishes to remain anonymous, ties for the record highest. In 2012, the winner also paid $3,456,789 to become the most expensive individual charity item ever sold on eBay.  The […]

For a few years since the ‘listicle’ has been in existence, there have been countless nostalgia pieces on the ’90s and the faint memories of a simpler time. These pieces have been liked, shared, poured over and eulogised to no end. But what has been grossly missing from these trips down memory lane is the poetic sense of the era gone by, with a sense of perspective that is almost […]

  A woman in Ireland carrying a dying foetus was the victim of “inhuman” treatment caused by the country’s strict abortion laws, United Nations experts said Thursday. The UN Human Rights Committee called on Ireland to “amend” its abortion laws and if necessary its constitution to protect patients and health workers who fear criminal punishment for even providing information about terminating a pregnancy. In November 2011, during her 21st week of […]

Ever since the first still of Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra’s next project– ‘Mirzya’ came out, it made all the right noises amongst cinema lovers. Starring debutant Harshvardhan Kapoor, the stroke of much-anticipated project gripped all and sundry. However, the wait ends and the highly awaited teaser trailer of ‘Mirzya’ is out. The official Twitter handle of the movie released the teaser trailer. The passion packed sequence and clean screenplay is something […]

All India Radio, India’s national public radio broadcaster is celebrating its 80th anniversary today. Also known as Akashvani. which means ‘Voice from the Sky’, AIR is one of the leading and oldest radio networks in the world. It’s a division of Prasar Bharti and is headquartered at Akashvani Bhavan in New Delhi.Let’s look at some lesser known facts about India’s most loved radio station The radio station was launched on […]

A few months after turning fifty Monal one day chanced upon a friend called Urmila. More than ten years ago Monal had met her over a dance performance they had staged with a common friend Rehana and three high school girls. In a typical Indian folk dance style, the young girls danced the part of the male of the couples. Those days it was a popular song from the Hindi […]