Does eating healthy necessarily mean eating tasteless? A gourmand may well answer that with a resounding 'Yes' -- but a bunch of chefs at the top of their game are out to change perceptions....
It's been a year since famed Indian artist S.H. Raza's death on July 23. A legend in the true sense of the word, he popularised Indian concepts and iconography globally and built an impressive legacy of modern art....
Only the naive will believe that the elevation of a Dalit, Ramnath Kovind, as the President is of seminal importance either for the community or for the party which chose him....
The greatest challenge for a short story writer, says one of the foremost names in the field -- who might not be too well known in India but has built up an impressive resume in the US -- is to stick to its ideal length, with the writer captivating his readers in a way that they have no desire for more....
The actress, who made a strong statement about how a woman's "no means no" with the hard-hitting drama "Pink", was trolled after she featured in a comic video wherein she spoke about how in her debut Telugu movie "Jhummandi Naadam" (2010) director K. Raghavendra Rao had a coconut thrown at her navel to add "sensuality"....
Though Austen had her detractors like Charlotte Bronte, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Mark Twain, they were outnumbered by her admirers like Sir Walter Scott, Anthony Trollope, Virginia Woolf, who called her the first truly great female author and the first good English author to have ...
At a time when the debate on censorship -- on TV and the social media -- is at an all-time high, one of the most popular faces on YouTube has called for a kind of self-regulation, both among content generators and consumers....
If he responds to the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) overtures to join the saffron brigade either formally or informally with the BJP propping up his government with outside support, he will be accused of crass opportunism....
On the eve of the May 2016 West Bengal Assembly elections, Arun Jaitley shared his campaign experiences with some editors. When he attacked Mamata Bannerjee and the Left-Congress front in equal measure, the crowd's response was tepid. When he attacked the Trinamool for 60 percent of his speech, there was some applause. But when his speech was 75...
Mohammad Shafiq, 52, lives with his family in a small hutment in a graveyard in Kanpur's Idgah Colony, and used to earn his living by procuring meat from the nearby government slaughterhouse and selling it by the roadside....
