The Indian Music Industry’s efforts recently managed to take a positive turn when Calcutta High Court passed an order banning 104 music sharing websites in the country.

Should politics have any bearing on religion? What role do ethics play in the workings of the government? And how should a political body respond to the moral question?

Unlike the West that continues to “inspire” our cinema from time to time, animals in Bollywood have rarely taken centrestage.

I lost my leg when I was just six years old — a truck ran over me while I was walking on the road and before I could cry for help, life, as I knew it, had changed forever.

One doesn’t really associate a serious term as “documentary” with funny man Javed Jafferi. But the maverick that he is, Javed is known for the surprises he throws at us from time to time.

Baba Azmi, whose fine art with the camera has shaped visually rich films such as Mr India, Beta and Pukar among others, was thinking of venturing into direction for quite sometime.

Friendships forged during long-distance train journeys have a charm of its own. Often it’s the impermanence that allows one to be more forthcoming about their thoughts, opinions and memories, where they try to take in a little bit of each other before the journey ends and they part ways for good. It is this insight that Rabindranath Tagore has captured in the opening of his story Khudito Pashan (or Hungry Stones) where an elderly tax collector strikes a friendship with his fellow passenger and narrates a poignant story of his past, one that he has perhaps not shared with anyone else till date.

Prague — the mere mention of the name conjures up an image of a classic land; a land of music, mystery, poetry, gothic buildings that cast enigmatic shadows separated by cobbled roads and if you listen carefully you might hear the violins too. Without Prague, there would be no Kafka, Neruda or a Mozart.

After the fashion high in the noon slot of Day 3 of the Lakme Fashion Week, Krishna Mehta’s sundown show failed to kick off on a flattering note.

March 4 being the Indian Textile Day, Day 3 of the Lakme Fashion Week Summer/Resort had a theme of its own.