‘He was gritty, complex, layered and full of colour, with never a dull moment. And in India’s smallest state, there was no other subject for a really interesting biography,’ say Sadguru Patil and Mayabhushan Nagvenkar, the authors of An Extraordinary Life: A Biography of Manohar Parrikar (Penguin India) to be released on June 22 on the […]Read More
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Saurabh Tankha The next time you happen to be around the Pink City of Jaipur or visiting the heritage city of Ajmer, make sure to visit Shahpura. Located around 200 km from the state capital of Rajasthan and around 100 km from Ajmer, Shahpura falls in Bhilwara district and was once the jagir or estate […]Read More
Saurabh Tankha You may not have noticed him as a student auditioning for a documentary role in Rang de Basanti or as a pickpocket in No One Killed Jessica but you just couldn’t have missed him as the inimitable Jana in Stree, the ruthless killer Hathoda Tyagi in Paatal Lok or the eccentric drug lord […]Read More
In an email interview with Saurabh Tankha, authors Bijal Vachharajani (BV) and Radha Rangarajan (RR) talk about working for environment, ways to get kids closer to Nature and finalising the 10 names for the e-book, 10 Indian Champions Who Are Fighting To Save The Planet by Duckbill Books, to be released this evening. Excerpts: […]Read More
It was a decade back that Jaideep Ahlawat was first noticed in Priyadarshan’s Khatta Meetha, followed by Aakrosh in the same year. Then came Gangs of Wasseypur, Vishwaroopam, Raees and Lust Stories. But it was as Khalid Mir in Meghna Gulzar’s Raazi that people sat up and took notice of this Rohtak-born post graduate in […]Read More
When your first original gets over a million views on YouTube alone, it means people love your music and you are here to stay. So it happened with the country’s upcoming boy band, Twin Strings which is now ready with their second original, Tujhse Hoti Hai Subha. “We are excited for this, especially after the […]Read More
Saurabh Tankha It seems like yesterday when this young girl from Bhagalpur in Bihar entered our homes, with the dream of becoming a Block Development Officer. Over the next one year, Krishna Raj was a part of most families in India, both urban as well as rural. They smiled with her achievements and gloom descended […]Read More
She was one of the leads in filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar’s Calendar Girls which followed her winning the first edition of Miss Universal Peace and Humanity in 2014 and working in a documentary, The World Before Her. You also saw her as Riya Sharma in the web series, Operation Cobra, with Gautam Gulati essaying the lead […]Read More
He is an educationist; a country representative for Glocal International Teen Conference (GITC) 2020 from India; among the top 10 global finalists for the VTRAC Programme by Harvard University; an invitee for the PennApps, the world’s biggest hackathon at the University of Pennsylvania; a Birla Young Indian awardee who works as a writer for visually […]Read More
Saurabh Tankha You have seen him play many a roles in the past – as an author, as a speaker and an ex-armed forces officer. Just that he did not belong to the film industry then though he was associated with it remotely (co-authoring Queens of Crime: True Stories of Women Criminals From India) with […]Read More