Carla Miriam Levy

Marriage and home are one and the same, and both require an investment of effort to flourish against the buffeting of the world.

Remembering the tragedy queen Meena Kumari on her death anniversary this week.

The message: once Mother India has made the difficult decisions and painful sacrifices, those of her children who remain will be squarely on the road to prosperity.

Most of Nadira's characters are not at all likable and yet they are deliciously captivating

There are many delightful (and some shallow) stories and stereotypes about Parsis and Christians in Indian cinema...

In some fifty Shabana Azmi movies I've watched, I haven't come across anything else as? demanding as Ishk Ishk Ishk, Gaja Gamini, or the execrable Son of the Pink Panther?.?.. ?

These films show revenge not as a personal triumph, but as a dark and dysfunctional desperation, the terrible scream of a broken psyche.

The women in Salim­-Javed's movies are people you feel you want to know.

How I learned to stop worrying and love the superstar.

Kangana's mad and memorable rendering of Alka helps make Revolver Rani a rich and layered film.

Have they achieved it all? Hollywood could provide some cues.

Eena? Meena? Teeka? The name’s one key in a thicket of codes