Bollywood producers begin to sing to corporate tune
Bollywood has taken a tentative step towards corporatisation. Some top producers have come together to float a new company - United Producers' Forum. The move, which follows government's decision to grant film-making the status of industry, may well extricate producers from the clutches of underworld financiers.

Son "betrayed" in the name of his father
A film currently being screened in Tokyo, on the life and times of Japan's wartime premier General Tojo Hideki, has left a 65-year-old Calcuttan hurt -- and angry. He is Prasanta Pal, son of Radha Binod Pal who is a hero for an entire generation of Japanese people in the traumatic years after the Second World War.

Vulture has an unkind fall to human indifference
A sick vulture which fell off a building near Nair Hospital and lay near a garbage dump alongside the main road for two full days received help from an unlikely quarter: a taxi driver named Javed, who steered it clear of all trouble. When Javed stopped near Nair hospital to repair the fare meter of his vehicle, he saw the bird, whose condition was so bad that death seemed imminent.