There’s something fascinating about the past. It makes you nostalgic and opens a box full of memories.

She may have made India proud at a number of national and international badminton tournaments, but shuttler Saina Nehwal says that’s all she is good at. “I can’t dance at all. It’s really difficult for me to pick up dance steps,” she shyly said when she couldn’t match the dance steps of young schoolkids from Genesis Global School to the song Jai Jai Jai Ganesha.

One is known for his flirtatious nature and the other for being vocal about her thoughts. When they both — actors Ranveer Singh and Sonakshi Sinha — were in the capital recently to promote their film Lootera, the sizzling chemistry between the two couldn’t be ignored.

It has all the ingredients — suspense, thrill, entertainment — to keep a movie buff hooked for three hours, yet there have been extremely few films based on the genre. Detective films have strangely found no place in the Hindi film industry till now.

They haven’t really seen any gender discrimination in their families. These girls were alowed to live their lives freely — doing what they want, developing their own thought process and having fun. But still, they can’t ignore the patriarchal system that rules our society.

Short films have always been the best format for amateur filmmakers to test the waters. However, they have remained confined to film festivals. But short films are now gradually finding space on the big screen.

A shade under 14 years and he has cracked the prestigious Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) for IITs, twice. What’s more, Satyam Kumar from Bakhorapur Village, Ara, in Bihar had cracked the IIT-JEE last year as well and he wasn’t even 13 then. That had made him the youngest to crack the JEE, beating the earlier record holder, Sahal Kaushik from Delhi who had passed the exam in 2010 at the age of 14.

For his debut Hindi film, Raanjhanaa, south Indian actor Dhanush may be going all out for the promotions but he confesses that he is not “really comfortable” doing all that.

Mathematics may not be something one associates with jokes. But for some nerds, finding humour even in maths books isn’t difficult. A Facebook page, “Dr.

“It’s the beginning of the beginning of the changing face of Indian cinema,” says Ritesh Batra, whose debut feature The Lunchbox didn’t just get rave reviews and win the Viewers’ Choice Award in the Critics’ Week segment at the recently concluded Cannes International Film Festival, but also did good business with people from across the globe buying the rights to screen the film.