“In the capital, a young, bright girl was brutally gangraped and eventually died. We named her Nirbhaya and decided to protest and call for action. But nothing much has changed. I want to use my film to take up the cause of women and there is a message for all in it,” says Kumar Raj, producer and director of the film Tara — The Journey of Love and Passion, which will release on July 12.

I have been brought up on a heavy dose of Bollywood and by the age of 10, I knew that I wanted to act in films, says actor Arjun Mathur, who has been receiving positive response for his role as an intern in the recently released medical drama, Ankur Arora Murder Case.

In 1990, two young musicians embarked on a journey. They set up a rock band, a novelty at that time and named it ‘Indian Ocean’. The band became hugely popular. Indian Ocean has managed to survive for more than two decades and has handled many ups and downs including the demise of its co-founder and vocalist Asheem Chakravarty in 2009.

If gorgeous ladies with hot bodies in itsy-bitsy bikinis is the reason you watch international beauty pageants, then you would be surely sulking.

“While many Carnatic musicians have successfully traversed to Hindustani classical forms, not many Hindustani musicians veer towards Carnatic music.

Both of them are superstars. And quite surprisingly, their life trajectories have had similar peaks and troughs.

Outside the Patiala House Court, a group recently got together for a musical satyagraha to take up Irom Sharmila’s cause.

Mumbai has been the backdrop for myriad tales. Be it the underworld, films or the business world, the city has come alive in the stories of narrators. In her latest work, poet, novelist and translator Sampurna Chattarji weaves together a confluence of her experiences in the city in all its speed, squalor and soul.

Post-work every evening, marketing executive Vikram Chopra zips off in his new Audi. He takes a detour and hits a swanky gym. Changing into a ganji and T-shirt, he is soon busy huffing and puffing away all his flab.

In a small hilly town Sukhiapokri near Darjeeling, a young girl enthusiastically participated in all sports activities in school.