‘And then one day- a memoir’, the autobiography of Naseeruddin Shah is storming up the bookstores across the country. At the Bangalore launch last Saturday, Shah traced the years of his growth as an actor and a human being. “You will waste total five years to study acting?”, was his father’s remark when Shah told
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In Malayalam, just one word is enough to tell a woman what she should or should not be doing. It’s this word that had writer/ playwright and teacher Poile Sengupta in full theatrical flow at the recent launch of her book Inga. Inga focuses on the feudalistic, deeply patriarchal and oppressive towards women in Indian
Read MoreVisiting a wildlife sanctuary had been always on my to-do list due to my immense fascination for jungles and wild animals. But my visit to Mudumalai National Park, Masinagudi last month was a disappointment. I had expected that I would be out in the wild and will get a chance to catch a glimpse of
Read MoreThe first telecom MNC to set up a full-fledged handset manufacturing facility in India, global communications leader Nokia had been connecting people to progress. By empowering women factory workers and creating community improvement initiatives, it had engineered economic transformation in Sriperumbudur. Sriperumbudur’s economic landscape had undergone a complete transformation with the setting up of the
Read MoreThe Queen of misty mountains, Kodaikanal, might soon vie for the title of Queen of garbage hills. The lovely green slopes of the Palani Hills are paying the toll for the popularity of the hilltop getaway, and how. Tourists leave a growing trail of litter – water bottles, empty packets of chips, biscuits and every
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