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TopicHelen

Topic: Helen

After Katrina Kaif, Helen swears by pilates. ‘This girl of 85 can bend it like Beckham’

Helen is the latest celebrity to endorse pilates in Bollywood. The trend has been popularised in recent times by Gen Z actors such as Ananya Pandey, Janhvi Kapoor, and Sara Ali Khan.

Edwina Violette was more than a ‘background’ dancer. ‘Could have become the second Helen’

Edwina Violette shimmied with Shashi Kapoor, jived with Mahmood, swayed with Helen. She stood out in 200+ films as a background dancer until she had to choose between marriage and career.

Helen’s glorious, glamorous vamp career had a recurring theme—death

In 'Helen: The Making of a Bollywood H-Bomb', Jerry Pinto analyses the remarkable life and career of Hindi cinema's dancing antagonist.

On Camera

Patel’s 1950 letter to Nehru: Find no legal power to deal with Press or men like Syama Prasad

Less than a year before the First Constitutional Amendment, Patel wrote to Nehru about Supreme Court rulings that had 'knocked the bottom out' of press control laws.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

MoD, IAF agree on some exemptions to HAL for Tejas Mk1A, but no compromise on ‘must-have’ capabilities

IAF is fine with accepting the aircraft with 'must-haves', even if some other steps remain pending, which may take at least another year, it is learnt.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.