SGFX Financials came into existence in December 2010, had Sharad Pawar as a director for a few weeks, within months showed an injection of a breath-taking £70 bn and got dissolved in November 2012    Sharad Pawar, leader of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), was a director in a UK-registered company SGFX Financials Co UK Ltd, for a few weeks, reveals documents, attributed in twitter to Niraj Gunde by Bhatiya […]

The headlines today are all about the midnight arrest of many students of the prestigious Film & Television Institute of India.  While I don’t want this to be another commentary on whether it was right for the police to swoop in at midnight for the arrest or whether the students were within their rights protest against ‘irrational’ assessment or gheraoing the institute’s director, Prashat Pathrabe, this incident seems to reiterate […]

Legendary Tamil movie and theatre director, screen writer and producer K Balachander passed away on Tuesday. He was 84.  Everyone from Rajinikanth and Kamal Haasan to Mani Ratnam and Khushbu had paid him a visit at the hospital. At 84, “KB sir”, as he is fondly called by one and all in the industry, has seen Tamil cinema evolve and is a guru and mentor to many people across many […]