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  • Rupam Kaur: Traditional matchmaking fraught with prejudice

    Rupam Kaur: Traditional matchmaking fraught with prejudice

    New Delhi, Sep 18 (IANSlife) For Rupam Kaur, an Indian-American physician, the pursuit of finding love a second time took more than the traditional formula of meeting with suitors via a matchmaker. Having found her partner on the dating app Bumble after a

  • Press enter for 'Dastan-e-Haroun'

    Press enter for 'Dastan-e-Haroun'

    Even as the film 'Peepli Live', India's official entry for the 83rd Acadmey Awards Best Foreign Film category completes a decade this month, its Delhi-based writer and director Anusha Rizvi says that the media and the system she satirised looks positively

  • Guneet Monga and acknowledging world's underlying goodness

    Guneet Monga and acknowledging world's underlying goodness

    For Academy Award winning producer, Guneet Monga, who recently acquired the rights to make author Khushwant Singh's book 'Maharaja in Denims' into a film, it has been a journey back to the roots. "I have forever been fascinated by Maharaja Ranjit Singh an

  • Framing dilemmas, not solutions

    Framing dilemmas, not solutions

    He is clear that as a filmmaker, it is not his job to bring about a social change, and unlike many from his fraternity that is not his starting point to making films. "I am intrigued by situations which force me to start looking at life from different per

  • Sanjay Dutt calls his wife 'mom'

    Sanjay Dutt calls his wife 'mom'

    On the occasion of the birthday of his wife Maanayata Dutt, actor Sanjay Dutt took to Instagram to pen a wish for her, calling her "mom".

  • Bollywood runs on nepotism, says musician Ranjit Barot

    Bollywood runs on nepotism, says musician Ranjit Barot

    Stressing that the Hindi film industry is an institution that doesn't place talent and virtuosity at the top of is list and runs on nepotism, India's best known drummer and music director Ranjit Barot, who guitar legend John McLaughli describes as "one of

  • Playing it true

    Playing it true

    Assuring that he is equally at peace doing the most expensive series on earth, 'Star Trek -Discovery' and starring in a Khasi film that does not have budgets for travelling to locations in a car, actor Adil Hussain, who is seen in both Indian art house an