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It's here. It's what everyone in India waits for as a new year begins: Bejan Daruwalla's annual forecast. With detailed month-by-month and week-by-week predictions of each of the twelve sun signs, this is the most comprehensive exercise of its sort in India. Also included are great astro tips from the master, world forecast, key dates and the impact your time of birth has on your life.

Bhaskar's was an ordinary life and he was perfectly happy with it. Then, one day, he decided to write a book. And for that he had to meet a publisher. From then on, his life changed. Publishers are of course, enigmatic creatures, notorious for conducting midnight sacrifices with small-time authors,...

'When I'm on the mat, I'm so filled with this awareness that the slightest touch feels like electricity to my body, and my body reacts to that the same way it would have reacted if I touched a livewire.' Wrestling, kushti, rules the farmlands, as it has for centuries. It had pride of place in the...

In 1947, young Jawad Hassan gives up his ancestral home in India and his fiancee Maimuna for a dream country founded by Jinnah. And even though the newly created state of Pakistan is thronged by a huge number of zealous Muslims ready to lead from the front, the rapid breakdown of law and order in...

It is sometime in the first decade of the 20th century. The British Imperialists have been in India for over 150 years. However, life in the small village of Shahpur in undivided Punjab has remained largely unchanged. The menfolk look to the wealthy and worldly-wise Shahji and his benevolent younger...

Jallianwala Bagh. 13 April 1919. Twenty-two-year-old Nanak Singh joins the mass of peaceful protestors agitating against the Rowlatt Act. What then turns out to be one of the worst atrocities perpetrated by the British Raj, and a turning point in India's independence movement, also becomes a life-changing...

In 1952, at the age of twenty-seven, Mohan Rakesh undertook a journey to south India, travelling by bus, train and steamer along the western coast from Bombay to Kanyakumari. Young and ardent, he dreamt of the wide expanse of sea that would make up for a childhood spent in Amritsar's narrow lanes,...

It's here. It's what everyone in India waits for as a new year begins: Bejan Daruwalla's annual forecast. With detailed month-by-month and week-by-week predictions of each of the twelve sun signs, this is the most comprehensive exercise of its sort in India. Also included are great astro tips from...

It's here. It's what everyone in India waits for as a new year begins: Bejan Daruwalla's annual forecast. With detailed month-by-month and week-by-week predictions of each of the twelve sun signs, this is the most comprehensive exercise of its sort in India. Also included are great astro tips from...

A journalist once asked Y.V. Reddy, 'Governor, how independent is the RBI?' 'I am very independent,' Reddy replied. 'The RBI has full autonomy. I have the permission of my finance minister to tell you that.' Reddy may have put it lightly but it is a theme he deals with at length in Advice and Dissent....

Once seen by Jawaharlal Nehru as a microcosm of Indian culture - and in the 2000s by both US President Bill Clinton and Bill Gates of Microsoft as a focal point of India's booming IT industry - the southern city of Hyderabad is now a symbol of India's worst crony capitalism. This is the capital of...

It's here. It's what everyone in India waits for as a new year begins: Bejan Daruwalla's annual forecast. With detailed month-by-month and week-by-week predictions of each of the twelve sun signs, this is the most comprehensive exercise of its sort in India. Also included are great astro tips from...

A story that proves that Indians when empowered can change the course of history The targets were stupendous and almost unachievable. Slightly over two years to find a suitable partner, finalize all legal documentation, build a factory, create a sales and service network and develop and launch a people's car that would sell 100,000 a year, in a sector where Indian expertise was limited.

Look behind the scenes of fifty celebrated songs, from an estimated repository of over one lakh! 'De de khuda ke naam pe': when Wazir Mohammed Khan sang these words in India's first talkie, Alam Ara, he gave birth to a whole new industry of composers, lyricists and singers, as well as an entirely...