Turn the pages of any fashion and glamour magazine and you see smiling faces with gleaming white teeth. The teeth are always perfectly proportioned and contoured, lending and enhancing the person’s beauty and personality. Ever wondered how this is

Garlic bread, garlic papads, garlic pickle and garlic pills. Garlic indeed finds its way into almost every Indian recipe. It is one of the oldest known herbs to man and has been an essential ingredient in many kitchens around the world. Since garlic has a strong and

Very few know that all food brimming with good bacteria is not probiotic. The perks of consuming these friendly micro-organisms are now widely discussed as more food with the probiotic tag makes its presence felt. But is the food you are tucking into really

No other film in recent times would have created as much buzz as My Name is Khan. Not even Aamir Khan’s 3 Idiots pre-release buzz came anywhere close to the hysteria around My Name is Khan. This kind of massive public interest in the film was expected

Freedom of expression is what has been given and granted to us by our founding fathers and they wanted us to have a voice that could be heard without the policing by a state. A voice that could be creative and a voice that could express itself in an artistic way

National Award winning actress Raveena Tandon continued to work after marriage and kids, but after her film Sandwich flopped in 2006, the actress hasn’t been seen in any movie. She has been seen making appearances on the small screen as a judge on a

Soha Ali Khan and Konkona Sen Sharma are the new best friends in Bollywood. Both the Bong girls are often spotted doing coffee, clubbing and shopping together. Wonder what their respective boyfriends think of that. But their bonding and easy chemistry, rarely

True to its title, Bhor is a production in search of a new dawn. Kolkata’s reputed theatre troupe Rangakarmee’s latest and first multilingual production, it was recently staged at the Academy of Fine Arts. The veteran matriarch of Hindi plays in the culture capital Usha Ganguli has not only designed and directed this issue-based drama but has also scripted it. Set in a rehabilitation centre, the plot navigates and thickens around a bunch of young boys and their struggle against the slow-poisoning disease of addiction.

Packed into a speeding compartment like calves carried to a slaughterhouse, hushed and huddled together, a herd of men, women and children luxuriate for the time being in a sweet sense of escape…illusive and ephemeral like a dream.
Yes, it is an illusive escape from a dark nimbus of fatal smoke, racing just behind to catch up with them at the earliest possible stop in the milling crowd in sordid slums, a new phenomenon, aggressively assuming more and more perspective in the world after the Industrial Revolution in the 18th century.

Scaramouche Jones is one of the most celebrated stories of noted playwright Justin Butcher and was recently staged in the city last week.
Directed by Warren D’Sylva and enacted by Ali Fazal, this play explores the poignant and human side of a clown, as he embarks upon in a one man show.