In India, Cannes Film Festival and Anurag Kashyap have become almost synonymous. Known as the father of new-age cinema in the country, the director-producer has some role to play in all the films — Ugly, Monsoon Shootout, The Lunchbox and Bombay Talkies — that went to the festival from India this year.

Last year, her dare-bare act for the movie Hate Story was much talked about. Paoli Dam single-handedly managed to create the right buzz for the film.

The market for young writers from college, writing campus romances, was still to be explored when Tushar Raheja, 29, came up with his book — Anything For You Ma’am in 2006 that explored the idea of love and infatuation.

“India is regressive for women,” that is what actor Mallika Sherawat had to say during an interview to Steve Gaydos at The Variety Studio at the 66th Cannes Film Festival recently.

If it were not for the business opportunities online, 24-year-old MBA graduate Vinayak Malhotra would not have been able to sponsor his MBA degree. And he did not really have to work relentlessly for that. It was just a small idea with which he struck gold.

It’s become quite a trend for students from IITs and IIMs to turn authors.

It’s rare when you get more than what you had dreamt of. Something similar happened to actor Richa Chadda, who after portraying the character of a girl-next-door in Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!

Women make headlines everyday — for being victimised. For no fault of theirs, they are beaten, raped, left emotionally and physically bruised with their cries for help falling on deaf ears. But it’s time for change, claim a growing number of people who have resolved to stand up and speak out against this injustice.

He is an avid traveller and loves to visit beautiful places all across the world. But his travel isn’t complete without capturing memories in pictures. Ishaan Suri, a 32-year-old businessman, has had a fascination for photography since he was a teenager. And that fascination has now reached another level. Now, he doesn’t only click pictures but adds to those pictures his own artistic touch digitally, which he calls Artfoto.

They chat, they eat and drink and dance their way to sleep. That’s how they are — a happy family, who can do anything for each other.