At a spooky themed resort in Mahabaleshwar, bestselling author Sivan Singh conducts a workshop on advanced horror-writing. On its final day, nine participants, influenced by their eerie experiences during their stay, along with an enigmatic writer, go all out for the story narration competition, Scare Me If You Can. Let your head spin around as […]Read More
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Indian-American film director NAVEEN CHATHAPURAM has been a part of many prestigious projects including Brown Nation, Night of the Living Dead and Haunted. Born in Coimbatore, Naveen moved to the USA with his banker father and musician mother when 12. At present, he runs his own film and television production company in Chicago. Naveen is now ready with his directorial […]Read More
Laila in Santoshi Maa Sunaye Vrat Kathayein, Ojaswini Shergill in Divya Drishti, Rasika in Do Dil Ek Jaan, Disha in Sasural Genda Phool and Maldawali in Ghulam on small screen and Amba in her debut movie, Begum Jaan. That’s RIDHIEMA TIWARI for you. Born to educationist parents, Ridhiema did her gurukul schooling from Gujarat before […]Read More
MANASI JOSHI ROY became a part of our homes with her impactful portrayal of a simple girl, Sudha, in the television serial, Saaya (1998-99) and followed up with another stellar performance as Chandni in Indian small screen’s first indigenous fantasy-comedy franchise and a sitcom replete with top-of-the-line visual effects, Gharwali Uparwali (2000-03). Thereafter, she was […]Read More
Saurabh Tankha Author SUTAPA BASU credits her parents – Army officer father and homemaker mother – to have inculcated the habit of writing in her. Surprisingly, the English Literature graduate from Santiniketan and holder of two post-graduate degrees, in English literature and education, feels her younger brother, an advertising professional, and sister, part of […]Read More
Pop singer-songwriter-model LEKKA recently released her Hindi-Punjabi single, Kaabil-E-Tareef, featuring Punjabi superstar Gurnazar Chattha who has written and composed it too. Born to an HR consultant mother and businessman father in New Delhi, Lekka has an elder brother. Saurabh Tankha talks to the independent stage artiste-singer who is an engineer by qualification and musician by […]Read More
Before National Award filmmaker-producer-editor-screenwriter ONIR, born Anirban Dhar, lets you in on the intimate and dramatic moments of his life through his memoirs next year, the talented craftsman in a conversation with SAURABH TANKHA talks about the challenges of asserting his sexual identity in a conservative environment, films like Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan and Laxmii […]Read More
Former chief election commissioner and opinion-maker DR SY QURAISHI, through his book – The Population Myth:Islam, Family Planning and Politics in India (Harper Collins, Rs 499, 336 pages) – evaluates India’s demographics from a religious perspective, to bust myths of a skew towards any particular religion. He talks to SAURABH TANKHA about politics over population, […]Read More
Hariharan, Bickram Ghosh join hands for the love of music Saurabh Tankha When two of the country’s greatest musical icons, one a renowned playback, bhajan and ghazal singer and the other a tabla maestro, decide to collaborate, you expect magic to reach your ears. So it has with the super-genius duo of Hariharan and Bickram […]Read More