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Tamil superstar Suriya, who is celebrating his 50th birthday on Wednesday (July 23), and his wife, actor-producer Jyotika, have for long reigned as Tamil cinema’s most-adored celebrity couple. The actors, who first met on sets of 1999’s Poovellam Kettuppar, fell in love while working on Gautham Menon’s acclaimed cop drama Kaakha Kaakha (2003) and married…
I have visited Italian painter Caravaggio in many cities — London, Florence, Rome, Venice, Paris. Now here he is, returning the visits, a guest in my hometown Bengaluru, where Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy is on display at the National Gallery of Modern Art. Caravaggio had carried the painting with him while escaping to Naples after…
Educator and Padma Shri awardee Arvind Gupta who makes toys from trash to teach science to underprivileged children | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Arvind Gupta folds a sheet of paper to the right and then to the left, and comes up with a design that shows the rhombus, diagonals, and the mathematical rules hidden within…
A cherished time of the day in many parts of India is the convivial gathering around a cup of tea. In tea stalls, the chatter ranges from the raucous to the intimate and from the political to the personal, so when one beholds artist Prasanta Sahu’s installation Tea Table Talk, it makes one pause. Three-thousand commissioned…
Actor Kamal Haasan and director Mani Ratnam during a press conference for their upcoming film ‘Thug Life’, in Chennai. | Photo Credit: ANI I met Kamal Haasan for an interview last Friday in Chennai for his much-awaited movie, Thug Life. The next day, he was at Sri Sai Ram College along with the entire team…
A molecular biologist from Madurai, our quizmaster enjoys trivia and music, and is working on a rock ballad called ‘Coffee is a Drink, Kaapi is an Emotion’. @bertyashley Quiz: Easy like Sunday morning — It’s all in the name! Animated storyteller Born on May 18, 1941, Miriam Margolyes is an English actress known for her…
Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap pulled no punches as he described the trend of ‘pan-India’ filmmaking as a “massive scam” during a session at The Huddle by The Hindu. Mr. Kashyap, known for iconic cult movies like Dev D and Gangs of Wasseypur, said that a film can only be anointed ‘pan-India’ when it has become successful…
