It was the kind of money that no actress from Britain – certainly not one with an Indian origin background — could afford to turn down. After making a name for herself as the football mad Jess (Jasminder) Bhamra in Gurinder Chadhas hugely successful...

Schopenhauer exists only in philosophy courses. Robert Southey is all but forgotten. But Pride and Prejudice continues to fascinate, with soaps and big screen adaptations de rigueur, even in India. "Trishna", one of the earliest serials on Doordarshan,...

Having recovered, Adhikary feels “disillusioned” by the game—all these years of playing football, and it hasn’t given her enough money to buy a pair of shoes. She got into the game out of love, transitioning from being a ball girl to a promising...

She’s beautiful and, thanks to those Chanel ads and a few blockbusters, richer than she cares to tell. But being Keira Knightley isn’t as easy as it looks. It's a cold winter morning and Keira Knightley is sitting alone in the library of a central...

It’s a very appropriate update, highlighting how work instead of a person can so easily become one’s life partner and how commitment to one’s own principles and desires can be an essential feature of growing up. During a recent re-watch of Gurinder...