Deepika Padukone slammed for sharing a hot photo on social media, she replied by posting another one

Homely Portrait Of The Artist

A young Ruskin Bond with his pet cat

Yes, She Can

The very fact that there is a fourth instalment of Hate Story points to a roaring market for coyly packaged sleaze. But what’s this about the siren-ish Urvashi Rautela tur...

Run Him Out!

This (top) is Virat hosting a charity ball for his Justice and Care organisation alongside Sachin and Wilkos in London. The team was there, naturally, and so was the gormless Vijay...

Accidental Likeness

Yes, this is ex-PM Manmohan Singh. No! That’s Anupam Kher as Manmohan in a poster of The Accidental Prime Minister, a filmic telling of Sanjaya Baru’s book. And the shad...

Infantile Connections

Adorable babe-in-the-arms Taimur surely is, but is Kareena overdoing her act of baby-proud mom a bit? Gloating aside, it makes sense to take the boy to Tusshar Kapoor’s son Lakss...

Their Boy

It’s funny, how Indian relatives of achievers in foreign (Western) lands make such a show of celebration bef­ore a pandering media. The same goes with the Varad­kar family—sh...

M.S.K. Prasad with students of the Shiridi School for the Blind in Guntur

Turn Around

Kara McCullough, a scientist and Miss USA, kicked up a row when she said healthcare was a ‘privilege’ (and not a right). The stick was no less for being gorgeous, so Ms Kara di...

Sharing Their Share

Their hearts beat for the downtrodden too. The Vijay Amr­­itraj Foundation funds small charities in India serving the poorest. Here, brothers Vijay and Anand pose with rights adv...

Ice Pick To The Fore

For Hillary and Tenzing, climbing Mt Everest was a feat; for Mallory it was an obs­ession. For Arunachal’s Anshu Jam­senpa, her fourth climb was done just to test herself. This...

Not Without Her Mother

Raveena Tandon had to take daughter Rasha to Justin Bieber’s concert, and we had to acknowledge that (the passing of the torch of masti), but Raveena’s featured here for her he...

Made In India Triumph

Take a bow, Rifath Sharook. The 18-year-old from Tamil Nadu’s Pallapatti developed Kal­amSat, the world’s smallest satellite. Now, NASA is going to launch the same. Wow!

They Ran In Slow Motion

Of course, old Baywatch fans waited for the movie version, hoping it yields the same pleasures. At Miami, for the premiere, they were there to cheer Zac Efron, Dwane Joh­...

Actor Akshay Khanna and actress Dia Mirza during the cremation of veteran actor Vinod Khanna in Mumbai.

Actor Akshay Khanna during the cremation of his father veteran actor Vinod Khanna in Mumbai.

When Times Are Fraught

If you’re so inclined, be sure to catch the premiere of Rahat Kazmi’s Mantostaan at Cannes. One reason is to see how Manto’s genius translates on screen (it’s on a...

A Rs 1,000-crore Bhima

M.T. Vasudevan Nair’s Ran­­d­­aa­­moozham, an iconoclastic look at the Mahabharata through Bhima’s perspective is now a Rs 1,000 crore film. And to make the bloc...

Dance To A Happy Tune

Though one is tempted to ask why Harbhajan was on the sets of Nach Baliye and not on the pitch (at least the practice pitch), one can’t deny the dance of the happy shade...

Some Motor Along Nicely

This happy couple, Sunjay Kapoor and Priya Sachdev, remains undefeated even after two (him) and one (her) attempts at nuptial bliss. As they cast the matrimonial dice once more, Pr...