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Midnight’s children

After 26/11, these Partition stories have an even more anguished resonance n kishwar desai

And they lived happily ever after?

In the superbly sensitive portrayal of a homosexual relationship in Brokeback Mountain...

Will you remain my Shah Rukh?

The biggest shock I got at Shobhaa De’s book launch was not about her sympathy for Raj Thackeray, nor her somewhat insular Delhi-bashing...

She walked in beauty

While the stamp commemorating the gorgeous Madhubala comes not a day too soon, why is it that the government forgot another...

Akbar's Jodhaa

It’s the chemistry, not the history, stupid! Jodhaa Akbar is not a historical film, it’s a romantic period film...

Yeh hai Bollywood, meri jaan

In true Bollywood style Farah Khan gave birth to triplets this week and no doubt has already written the script around them.

Booking lives, living books

The problem with biographies is that no one likes to write the truth. The even bigger problem is that no one can quite remember it.

The girl with a gold nose ring

The trouble began, when in keeping with her family traditions, Sunali had her nose pierced with a gold nose stud, in 2004, after she had just turned 1