Bollywood’s Khalnayak Sanjay Dutt is the latest example of the fact that life of Bollywood stars is not a bed of roses. Many B-Town biggies have gone through a dark phase in their lives and have even served time in jail. While Sanjay Dutt and Salman Khan are most talked about actors who were behind the bars, there are few …

A team of US researchers including an Indian-origin scientist has formulated a new method that can predict with 70 percent accuracy the likelihood that your tweets — that are part of an ongoing debate or a movement — will become part of a larger and even violent protest later. The study from researchers at Arizona State University, Texas A&M University …

Publisher: Vintage Books/Random House India Pages: 345 Price: Rs.399 The Lal Masjid stand-off in 2007 after abduction of some Chinese citizens and the bloody clearing-up operation was a watershed for Pakistan, triggering open conflict between Islamist extremists and security forces, a wave of suicide attacks and sending the economy plummeting. But an aspect less considered is the Chinese role in …

Publisher: Rupa Pages: 283 Price: Rs.500 Branding is the biggest buzzword for any product to thrive, or even survive. But how does one create a successful brand? For Anisha Motwani, the idea for the book began with a simple question: How is it that in a diverse, challenging and often predictable market like India, a handful of companies are doing …

Mumbai, India – February 18, 2016 – Indian phone maker Ringing Bells launched a 251 rupee ($4) smartphone, The Freedom 251, which sets the new world record for the World’s Cheapest smartphone. Photo: Ringing Bells, which launched ‘Freedom 251’, priced at Rs 251 – is the world’s cheapest smartphone. The Guinness World Records’ record for the largest smartphone ensemble is 223 …

Some choose their path and for the rest, it is the path that chooses them. For renowned stone sculptor Rajendar Tiku, who was awarded the Padma Shri for his contributions in the field of art, stone sculpting is a choice he made when he could easily “let life take another course.”Chuffed with his achievement of receiving grants from reputed foundations, …

Sitting on a mat, Gond and Bhil artist Dinesh Shyam is focused on his art; a tiger it is this time that he is painting with little dots and smaller lines. Part of the ongoing exhibition, Aadi Chitra at Government Museum and Art Gallery-10, Dinesh is too happy to share his initiation into tribal art. This Madhya Pradesh tribal art …

Hands in the air, mobile phones, camera, and action! As Pakistan-based folk musician, Arif Lohar, arrived at Paara, a night club in Chandigarh, to perform, the audience that kept waiting for three hours pulled their Smartphones out and clicked selfies and videos with Arif in the backdrop! What followed later was a Friday night drunk on the beats of dhol …

Publisher: Hays House Publishers India Pages: 312 Price: Rs.399 Can you recall the first Bollywood film stressing communal harmony and tolerance by showing diverse people staying together despite vested interests trying to divide them? (It was Dev Anand‘s debut). Two where everything happens in one eventful, adventurous night? (They starred Waheeda Rehman and Madhubala). The first (and possibly only) mainstream …

Publisher: Speaking Tiger; Pages: 408; Price: Rs.499 With global food shortage peaking in the past decade, American author Joel K. Bourne Jr. paints the vision of an apocalyptic future for humankind if concerted efforts are not made to ward off what Robert Malthus had predicted as the coming of an “agricultural Armageddon.” The ideas of the 18th century economist, Malthus, …