Book excerpt: When NT Rama Rao became the first Indian chief minister to act in a movie

Ramesh Kandula

· Jan 25, 2021 · 10:30 am

Sanitation crusader Bindeshwar Pathak on tackling manual scavenging: ‘I cannot just sit and watch’

Y Ravindranath Rao

· Jan 14, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Who was Soumitra Chatterjee’s favourite athlete? Hint: think cricket

Amitava Nag

· Jan 02, 2021 · 10:30 am

Remembering Irrfan, the ‘mystical minstrel always in search of the meaning of life’

Roshmila Bhattacharya

· Dec 22, 2020 · 10:30 am

How all Indians (including teetotallers) end up consuming a lot of alcohol without knowing it

Krish Ashok

· Dec 17, 2020 · 11:30 am

How Sai Paranjpye found the ‘eccentric, lovable and unforgettable characters’ for her comedy ‘Katha’

Sai Paranjpye

· Nov 24, 2020 · 10:30 am

What influences led architect Balkrishna Doshi to design ‘a campus with no doors’?

Parul Sheth

· Nov 17, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Policy decisions, photography and the octopus: When Rajiv Gandhi and family visited Lakshadweep

Wajahat Habibullah

· Nov 09, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Book excerpt: How Parveen Babi disarmed (and alarmed) journalists during her early years in showbiz

Karishma Upadhyay

· Aug 25, 2020 · 12:00 pm

Former Indian Air Force pilot Gunjan Saxena in her own words: ‘I will not disappoint you’

Gunjan Saxena with Kiran Nirvan

· Aug 17, 2020 · 04:30 pm

When Shakuntala Devi interviewed a closeted man about to be married: ‘I’ve a duty towards my family’

Shakuntala Devi

· Aug 03, 2020 · 12:00 pm

How the movies celebrated Mahatma Gandhi, who thought that cinema was ‘a sinful technology’

Narendra Kaushik

· Jun 13, 2020 · 11:30 am

Floyd Cardoz on the joys of Indian food: ‘So much to discover, so much to acknowledge’

Floyd Cardoz

· Mar 26, 2020 · 08:30 am

This is the book for which the Sanatan Sanstha filed a Rs 10-crore defamation suit – and lost

Dhirendra K Jha

· Mar 04, 2020 · 08:30 am

Mandira Bedi’s secret to fitness: ‘Be kind to yourself and yet, firm in resolve’

Mandira Bedi

· Feb 06, 2020 · 08:00 am

How a cafe owner and Rajiv Gandhi contributed to Ramanand Sagar’s blockbuster TV show ‘Ramayan’

Prem Sagar

· Dec 14, 2019 · 02:30 pm

How Doordarshan used foreign visits and public meetings to sell Rajiv Gandhi as a ‘man of action’

Amrita Shah

· Sep 04, 2019 · 10:00 am

How Bollywood ‘Bad Man’ Gulshan Grover suffered through Hollywood: ‘You became a face in the crowd’

Gulshan Grover

· Jul 27, 2019 · 08:30 am

1980s revisited: How the VCR changed my social life and made me a Very Important Person

Janhavi Samant

· Jul 22, 2019 · 10:30 am

Catch me if you can: The American smuggler who left Indian police red-faced twice in the 1960s

Abeer Kapoor

· Jun 14, 2019 · 11:30 am