In every new body of work, I set myself new challenges. For my upcoming solo show in New York, I wanted paintings that were ethereal, visually "light and airy." To achieve that, I combined drawings in charcoal and in paint, comic book images as well as

We shall explore this so that there are no misconceptions — What is HDMI and is it necessary to buy a TV with HDMI (High Definition Multimedia Interface) inputs? Just like a USB interface is to computers, HDMI will soon be to most digital AV products.

There are about 1.4 million blind children worldwide and research points out that a child goes blind every minute. However, blindness could have been averted in as many as 50 per cent of the 1.4 million children who are blind. Refractive errors are the

Bt stands for the bacterium, bacillus thuringiensis. Isolated as early as 1901, it was named after the German town Thuringia. It was found to have an unusual ability — certain strains of B. thuringiensis possess a genetic material that enables them to produce protein crystals (cry toxins) possessing insecticidal properties.

Aswagandha, scientifically called Withania somnifera, is often described as the Indian ginseng. As its scientific name "somnifera" suggests, aswagandha induces sleep in people who suffer from insomnia or sleeplessness. Unlike chemical sedatives and tranquillisers, aswagandha calms the body and mind before inducing sleep.

Q I am a 27-year-old girl who is 5 feet, four inches and weigh 53 kilos. I am not overweight but have always been able to maintain my weight at 51 kilos. Six months back I put on two kilos and have not been able to knock them off despite working out for an hour,

There has already been much speculation about Deepika Padukone’s personal life, purported link-ups with cricketers Yuvraj Singh and Mahendra Singh Dhoni, actors Shahid Kapur and of course, Ranbir Kapoor with whom she has reportedly broken up. The actor

Kangna and Dino were caught kissing and their pictures were spread across the entertainment section of a city newspaper. I don’t think that Kangna and Dino kissing should really be this big a deal as both are single and well within the norms to mingle but what really spurred the conspiracy theorist in me was how the hell did the pictures get there in the first place?

Kamaal hai. After giving us itne saare perfect romances, Yashji is not getting the pulse of TV audiences. Aur aisa bhi nahin hai ke his Powder (Sony) doesn’t have an example to copy. Sony has only one serial which works and that too, like Powder, is a cop-and-criminal drama. But CID’s TRPs are often around 3.4, and Yashji’s Powder is at 0.3.

Has Vidya Balan brought herself back into the reckoning post-Ishqiya? Well, we think so. How else could one explain director Sanjay Bhansali being keen on increasing her role in his movie Chenab Gandhi? The film has been talked about for a while now,