Ideas Without Boundaries.
I sat up late last night watching Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s film Anuradha, yet again and found myself in tears, thinking how much I have over the years, grown to love the maker, who would have been 84 on 30th September, through his films. Satyajit Ray and Read More …
He came to the US with 8 dollars in his pocket, worked as a cook and a research assistant, to pay off his loans. He was placed at the lowest rung of the ladder at Chevron in the seventies and told that even though his Read More …
He is the son of farmers but more than 2 decades ago when the 20 something Gurdas Maan burst into the music scene with his block buster Dil Da Mamla hai, he mesmerized the entire nation and hasn’t looked back. Today the legendary singer, actor Read More …
Milton Berle once said, “If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?” Though spoken in jest, his words capture the central role of mothers in the lives of their children. Prolific author and motivational speaker Deepak Chopra recalls the days when his 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 …
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 …