Ideas Without Boundaries.
He was born in 1398 and supposedly lived for 120 years. The legacy of the Bhakti movement, that the illegitimate child left behind along with his poems, and the deep message in each couplet relating to life’s experiences, has made the mystic poet Kabeer Das Read More …
It’s time we gave Ayurveda the respect it deserves.” His father was a diplomat, his mother a PhD in the times when women didn’t study much in India, and his grandfather a great spiritual master, yet it was his paternal grandmother who was the deepest Read More …
The best thing about the “Heat Concert” starring Akshay Kumar, Saif Ali Khan, Sushmita Sen, Preity Zinta and Celina Jaitly was the fact that it was hosted by the Raina Foundation for a noble cause. The foundation worked very hard to make it a success Read More …
His maternal grandfather had a dream-to see one of his children or grandchildren play at Wimbledon just once! Tennis star Anand Amritraj marked his fortieth year at Wimbledon last year. Along with younger brother Vijay, he played 17 years of doubles, and their team was Read More …
He recites T.S. Eliot with the same ease with which he plays the sarod. A linguist, who once fooled a diverse array of people from different States of India by speaking their own dialect flawlessly, he is also a highly accomplished singer who was invited Read More …
In conversation with Kavita A Chhibber She is a legendary film actress, one of those rare ones who made a success of careers both in Mainstream and Parallel Art Cinema in India. She made it to Hollywood at a time no one had heard of Read More …
Coming from a family of academicians, a chemical engineer chucks up a lucrative job and a cushy life style not once, but twice to follow his passion-film making. Sounds like a plot from one of his films? Indeed Nagesh Kukunoor did just that! Today Kukunoor Read More …
Indian Hotels are more hospitable than any other chain in the world.” He is the hot and happening New Yorker, who creates culinary delights with fingers that don’t just knead dough, but sculpt and scribble in other mediums, and while the pen may be mightier Read More …
Walking through the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Israel, a few months ago I could barely contain my tears, looking at the images of one of the biggest human tragedies, but to talk to Holocaust survivor Werner Reich a couple of weeks ago and see his Read More …
** Fair warning: The following review may contain plot spoilers. ** This film was making waves because of a short but explicit gay love scene and a story that revolved around two cowboys in the early sixties. Yet Brokeback Mountain is simply an ageless, timeless, Read More …