Irena Akbar

‘WELL, I THINK I AM A GENTLEMAN’

Harbhajan Singh promises good behaviour on field, says he practised 10 hours to win a dance show and wants to marry a girl who won’t fight with him

Inimitable image

Subi Samuel is ‘mysteriously pulled’ towards Herb Ritt’s Fred with Tyres

‘I don’t have rice and roti in one meal’

I generally wake up to coconut water or fresh lime water. For breakfast, I have either poha or oat meal or a multigrain bread sandwich.

Chomp and chill

Here’s what you should be eating this winter

Past-Present

Sudhir Mishra watches 81/2 to rekindle faith in life

‘I jog 7 km thrice a week’

I kick-start the day with three egg whites and a slice of bread.

‘I eat seven small meals a day’

I eat six to seven meals a day—all in small portions. For instance, a bowl of six egg whites with a glass of juice would make one meal.

The dark ink

Graphic novelist Sarnath Banerjee has ‘internalised’ the mysterious story-telling of Edgar Allan Poe

Classroom experiment

If Ram Nikumbh, the committed teacher played by Aamir Khan in Taare Zameen Par, awed you with the innovative ways he educated a dyslexic child, meet R

Spirits down as Eid shoppers stay off Batla House

The last week of Ramzan is usually the most awaited time of the year for shopowners in Batla House.

At Kumharon ka Mohalla, a pocket of Hindu families in Jamia Nagar, residents recount the area’s changing profile

Jamia Nagar has had no history of communal violence—not even during the Babri and Gujarat riots.

‘EVERY ROLE IS LIKE A LIFE. YOU PLAY IT ONCE’

Sarika’s second Bollywood stint has been about wowing critics. In an e-mail interview, she talks about the silence of Kashmiri women, child ‘co-stars

Watch your Orkut profile, future boss may be snooping

An active profile on online social networking sites is a double-edged sword.

Attendance hit in Jamia depts

Following the arrest of two Jamia Millia Islamia students — Mohammad Shakeel and Zia-ur-Rehman — for their alleged involvement in the recent serial bl