I have no agenda to have the best body in the business. But yes, I am a stickler for fitness and will never compromise on that front. I start my regular work-out regime with a warm-up session, followed by treadmill, cross-training and rigorous cycling.

Braja Sorensen insists her life story doesn’t have the trappings of a fairy tale. “After all I didn’t sell the Ferrari, or delve into backpacking Buddhism or join 27 fringe religions. And I didn’t travel to three different countries searching blindly for food, love or spiritual sanctuary. I knew where to go: straight to India,” she writes in her book Lost & Found in India.

I joined an engineering college last month. I am not a very bright student, but I try to study hard. However, one of my teachers keeps yelling at me in class all the time. He picks on me for no reason. I study harder for his subject but he keeps asking me questions until I don’t have answers and then sometimes he yells at me and sometimes makes fun of me in front of the entire class. Should I complain to my HoD? I cannot give up this subject as it’s important for my course. I don’t know what to do.

To be a gym-freak has become a fad these days. Granted that without it, one can’t keep the body well-toned. And going by our tinselville rulebook, it is a compulsory trend.

How sweet is it for your health to eat sweet potatoes! Not only do they taste like desserts, but also provide some surprising health benefits to pride over. Many people think about sweet potatoes as being nothing more than plain old potatoes that can tweak our tastebuds.

An actor does his best. But what unfolds in front of the camera — that’s a mystery nobody has been able to unravel — says Amitabh Bachchan in an interview with Bhawana Somaaya.

From a rookie who took a while to find his bearings in the team, to becoming one of the most dependable men in the Indian hockey team, V.R. Raghunath’s journey has been built on a solid foundation of skills, hard work and the ability to overcome testing times.

Dum dum.. rrradadum! rrrrrrumdum….that’s it!” he explained chirpily, playing intricate rolls with lightning speed on a large clay and goatskin drum.

I recently visited the United Kingdom, but it was mostly for work and not really a vacation. It was a four-city tour as the television programme Saraswatichandra was the most popular Indian show in the UK. I really loved visiting Leicester, London, Manchester and Birmingham. The best part was meeting different kinds of people in all these cities.

Indian music is undergoing a sea change of sorts. From seasoned veterans to up-and-coming talented fledglings, everyone seems to be thinking out of the box, unmindful of adhering to age-old tra ditions. The latest among these trends is the adding of a new-age twist to the sacred genre of Carnatic music.