‘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 in small but memorable appearances—as a student auditioning in Rang De Basanti or as a pickpocket in No One Killed Jessica. But once he arrived, there was no missing him: the eccentric Jana in Stree, the chilling Hathoda Tyagi in Paatal Lok, and the ruthless 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 ago that Jaideep Ahlawat first came into notice with Priyadarshan’s Khatta Meetha, followed in the same year by Aakrosh. Since then, he has been part of notable films such as Gangs of Wasseypur, Vishwaroopam, Raees and Lust Stories. However, it was his role as Khalid Mir in Meghna Gulzar’s Raazi that […]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 feels like just yesterday that a young girl from Bhagalpur in Bihar entered Indian living rooms with a simple dream—to become a Block Development Officer. Within a year, Krishna Raj became a familiar presence in households across the country, urban and rural alike. Viewers laughed with her successes and felt her sorrow […]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