Most young graduates from Whistling Woods would make a beeline for Bollywood to start their film careers but Siddharth Sharma didn’t want to take the beaten track. After graduating from the film school, he took a trip to London in September 2009, which is where he stumbled upon the subject for his debut film Arjun & Alison.

Heavy/thrash metal band Zygnema has qualified as the Wacken Open Air India finalist. They will soon fly to Germany to compete against 30 countries in what’s considered one of the biggest heavy metal festivals of the world.

His stellar act in Fashion fetched him 22 film offers but Arjan Bajwa didn’t select even one. That’s just to give you an idea of how choosy he is. But choosiness paid off when, after a few forgettable projects, he bagged a meaty role in the Ajay Devgn produced Son of Sardar opposite Sonakshi Sinha.

It’s been a year since Siddhartha Deb’s The Beautiful and the Damned hit bookstores around the world but in India the book is still being read without its first chapter.

Kusumita Das

It’s been a year since Siddhartha Deb’s The Beautiful and the Damned hit bookstores around the world but in India the book is still being read without its first chapter.

The Indian Music Industry’s efforts recently managed to take a positive turn when Calcutta High Court passed an order banning 104 music sharing websites in the country.

Should politics have any bearing on religion? What role do ethics play in the workings of the government? And how should a political body respond to the moral question?

Unlike the West that continues to “inspire” our cinema from time to time, animals in Bollywood have rarely taken centrestage.

I lost my leg when I was just six years old — a truck ran over me while I was walking on the road and before I could cry for help, life, as I knew it, had changed forever.

One doesn’t really associate a serious term as “documentary” with funny man Javed Jafferi. But the maverick that he is, Javed is known for the surprises he throws at us from time to time.