scorecardresearch
Add as a preferred source on Google
Sunday, November 23, 2025
HomeFeatures

Features

New film ‘Songs of Paradise’ is a tribute to Raj Begum—first woman to sing on Radio Kashmir

Directed by Danish Renzu, ‘Songs of Paradise’ portrays the life of the Padma Shri recipient. Saba Azad and Soni Razdan play Raj Begum at different stages in life.

West Bengal: Joy Banerjee, matinee idol of ’80s, dies at 63

Kolkata, Aug 25 (PTI) Bengali actor Joy Banerjee died at a hospital in Kolkata on Monday at the age of 63, his family...

Trump’s war on museums. Critics say Smithsonian clean-up is ‘McCarthyism’

Trump ordered the Smithsonian to strip ‘divisive’ content from its museums within 120 days in a 12 August letter. Critics call it an attempt to erase racism from US history.

11 dishes, 60 Indian cities—new cookbook goes beyond tikka masala

Former BBC Good Food editor Sona Bahadur’s new book launched in Delhi's IIC. She travelled to 60 cities to discover India's iconic regional dishes.

Manoj Bajpayee’s ‘most memorable performance yet’. Jugnuma set to release on 12 September

Jugnuma is produced by Guneet Monga Kapoor and Anurag Kashyap. The two are not just backing the project, but also presenting it.

Tannishtha Chatterjee says she is battling stage 4 oligometastatic cancer

New Delhi, Aug 25 (PTI) Actor Tannishtha Chatterjee, known for her roles in both Hindi and English independent films like "Parched" and "Brick Lane",...

Gurugram’s rich have a new frontier — Antarctica

At Gurugram's Prego restaurant, Juan Cristobal Del Bravo of Antarctica 21 transported a group of curious travellers to 12,000 km away to Antarctica — a land with no cities and no citizens.

Anamika married melody and mystery. It gave two evergreen songs — for romance and heartbreak

Raghunath Jhalani’s 1973 film Anamika starring Sanjeev Kumar and Jaya Bachchan shows how inherent biases can blind someone to reality.

Madhvan is a new whisky in the market. ‘Made in India’ is great again

UBD’s second blended whisky, Madhvan was launched on 22 August at The Claridges in Delhi. It foregrounds cultural pride.

Fevikwik is the latest Indian brand to use AI in ads. It has no recall value

The ad combines Fevikwik’s core value of ‘fixing things’, fun and creativity and an AI tool, but instead of a smooth cocktail, we're left with an indiscernible aftertaste.

On Camera

At Charcha 2025: Local entrepreneurship, not just big IT, will drive next wave of distributed AI work

While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.

Tejas crash: Amid taunts from across border, a Pakistani pilot’s brother voices shared grief & solidarity

Speaking to ThePrint, Salman Akram urges dignity in tragedy, recalling the loss of his brother, Wing Commander Nauman Akram, in similar crash & the mockery his family faced after.

A tribute to Tejas. India’s delay culture is the real enemy in the skies

It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.