Here's a pencil-pusher getting all very pensiveRoald Dahl's demand for Ticonderoga pencils from his publisher, Alfred Knopf, triggered a complex dispute involving tax issues, corporate m...
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Hot grandmas, not just looking youngerHuman grandmas are getting hotter. This climate change can be attributed to better lifestyles, better diets, better Zeenats effortlessly ha...
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A week after being acquitted in Jiah Khan suicide case, Sooraj Pancholi offers prayers at Gurudwara Bangla SahibBollywood actor Sooraj Pancholi sought blessings at Gurudwara Bangla Sahib in Delhi, following his recent acquittal in the suicide case of ...
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Who was Jiah Khan? Three films & a tragic life framed in headlines foreverThe daughter of Indian American businessman Ali Rizvi Khan and former actor Rabiya Amin, Jiah was born in New York City.
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Melissa Bank, bestselling author embraced by young readers, passes away at 61Bank also wrote the comic story collection 'The Wonder Spot'.
05 Aug, 2022, 08.45 AM IST
World Emoji Day 2022: A look at how emoticons changed the way people communicateThe day was conceptualised by Jeremy Burge who is also known as an emoji historian and founder of Emojipedia.
17 Jul, 2022, 09.40 AM IST
Montreux, which was home to Charlie Chaplin and Freddie Mercury, still weaves its Alpine magicFrench-speaking Montreux has always enjoyed a rock-star cachet among the rich and famous.
03 Feb, 2019, 12.28 AM IST
‘Carrie’, ‘Lolita’, ‘Da Vinci Code’ - books that reaped success, thanks to families of authorsGeorge Saunders wouldn't have taken home this year’s Booker Prize, if it wasn't for his wife's cousin.
11 Apr, 2018, 10.50 AM IST
Natwar Singh justifies ban on Satanic Verses by Rajiv Gandhi governmentNatwar Singh worked as minister of state for external affairs under Rajiv Gandhi when the Satanic Verses was banned in 1989.
03 Dec, 2015, 12.45 PM IST
Playboy to stop publishing nude from its magazineThe magazine, a pioneer of the revolution that helped take sex in America from furtive to ubiquitous, will stop publishing images of naked ...
14 Oct, 2015, 05.40 AM IST
Playboy magazine to no longer feature nude womenNow readers of Playboy can honestly say they are buying the magazine for its articles.
13 Oct, 2015, 08.50 AM IST
War of words: Authors and their hate-listWhen Salman Rushdie named George Eliot's "Middlemarch" as the book he didn't like, he joined a long list of writers who dislike famed works.
01 Oct, 2015, 04.03 PM IST
Reaper cheers“As a rule (however), man views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for (at some forty-fivehundred heartbeats an h...
18 Jun, 2014, 06.20 AM IST
Does exile kill imagination and lead to devastation?Stefan Zweig, the Austrian-German author who was born into money and had a fetish for collecting originals of artists, once bought a manusc...
23 Aug, 2012, 07.15 AM IST
- The art of ideologies
The history of artistic discords also has its fair share of inter-war chapters.
26 Aug, 2011, 05.46 AM IST
Can’t be dogmatic about creativityIn the Beginning was the Word, says King James’ version of the Bible. This is the only exact place where Darwin seems to agree with the cre...
06 Jun, 2009, 12.21 AM IST
- British retail chain halts sale of children's beds named Lolita
Woolworths stores in Britain have stopped selling 'Lolita' beds for young girls after a parents' organization complained because of the nam...
03 Feb, 2008, 07.54 PM IST