Cricket, Mamaji, dukaan: Kai Po Che captures essence of Gujarat

On his birth centenary on May 2013, veteran actor Balraj Sahni's grandniece, Malavika Sangghvi, recounts his extraordinary but sad life.The world knew him as Balraj Sahni, the celebrated actor, humanitarian and litterateur. But for me, he was always Balrajji or Mamaji, my maternal grandmother's younger brother and hence my granduncle. In many ways, he defined our family and gave the clan its moral fibre and its mythology, its deep unspeakable sadness and its great leaps of sunshine. ...

The kitchen is no longer a back-end dungeon of a hotel or a restaurant. The recent chef's talent searches in Mumbai for both professionals and amateurs is proof of this. It has been sometime since Indian kitchens and the men and women in them have ...

As a student at the Delhi School of Economics, RohiniDey had one goal and that was a job with the World Bank. She had once been told that she needed a doctorate degree to work there. "The reason to join a PhD course in economics at the in Austin was ...

Mumbai: Taking serious note of sexual assault of minor girl inmates by employees of a shelter home in Nashik district of Maharashtra, the Bombay High Court on Friday cancelled bail granted to four accused including a 70-year-old watchman, in the ...

One of those rare species, a woman restaurateur Rohini Dey of New York's Vermilion, chatted with Eram Agha during a competitive cook-off Rohini Dey, founder of Vermillion (NYC & Chicago) was in town, searching for a chef who would cook up a ...

NEW DELHI: The sharing of the Coalgate probe status report with the political executive before its submission to SC may appear to be a new low for the CBI, but given its regime-sensitive approach to politicallysensitive cases in the last two ...

By now, youve probably heard all the theories. Talk to a Freudian and you may hear that Richard Parker, the fearsome Bengal tiger in Life of Pi is really the id manifestation of the title character as he struggles to survive alone in a lifeboat with ...

Office-goers in MP share their tricks and mantras to keep their bosses happy. From running errands to covering up for the super senior - they will do anything to earn brownie points Recently, when Yahoo CEO Marissa Ann commanded her staff to either ...

A week after Mumbai Mirror exposed the plight of 35 female inmates at Jai Anand Nirashrit Ashram in Nashik, Panchavati police has finally gotten its act together. Lalchand Pipada, founder of the orphanage, whom the inmates called Mamaji, ...