Through history, muslin curtains have parted only for the privileged to behold the charms of seraglios and four-poster beds within. Thank heavens for our more egalitarian times, fo...
Every decade, seen in Hollywood terms, has its ultra couple—a match blessed by glamour, success, fame, all seemingly cemented by boundless love for each other. From 1987, till ci...
Not the nasty, mountainous brutes off the coasts of California or South Australia, the waters off Hong Kong, little did we know, are crowned by gentle, middling surfs tailormade fo...
Like the Magis, two spheres of influence must have crowded upon the cradle of Taimur—the cricketing world of great-grandfather and grandfather (Iftikhar and Mansur Ali Khan Patau...
Distractions come in various guises—that pizza in the refrigerator, the call of gossip, or the lure of hours-guzzling cricket matches. The most dangerous of these are the siren...
“Eeeeee-gah,” lowed isolated pockets amongst the few hundreds allowed at French Open matches. Iga Swiatek, tennis’s new, 19-year-old wunderkind, took heart and scythed throug...
Two runs to win off two balls…and victory was sealed with a six. Some high jinks was in order, especially since he had just broken a losing streak. So, Rajasthan Royals’ Riyan ...
The bewilderingly, but catchily, titled Pyaar Ka Punchnama and Sonu Ki Titu Ki Sweety have a common centre of attraction in the pleasing form of Ishita Raj Sharma...
Look closely—a faint glimmer of modernism hangs over this vision, as hang boughs and tendrils floating in lush green. Encased thus, Amyra Dastur is caught mid-movement in a self-...
The sage Agastya, say the Puranas and the epics, was a particularly irascible old man—woe betide you if you didn’t do his exact bidding and, quickest on the draw, he might brin...
A man wearing an oversized shirt is strangely diminished, even if he’s cast in a heroic mould. A large (men’s) shirt can only be sensualised by a woman—from Brigitte Bardot a...
Look at this carefully crafted portrait of Priyanka Chopra for her “tell-all” memoir, Unfinished. Move aside for a moment the fact that she hasn’t much significant to divulge...
In this season of daughters, daddys are going weak in the knee. The latest to declare susceptability is Ajay Devgn, who made a career in acting out of brooding looks and twisted ha...
Is this the richest cub couple to have a baby daughter this year? Possibly, but singer Zayn Malik, 27, and 25-year-old supermodel Gigi Hadid’s girl opened her account with gifts ...
How sporting directions follow pre-ordained paths cut through the hardest granite of world competition—Australia’s women cricketers have opened up the same, barely bridgeable g...
Those who take stock of glamour, ascribing rank and passing judgement, ignore Mandira Bedi at their peril. For as the rest of us moan and groan, throwing sharp glances as the next ...
The little black dress, or its handmaiden, the little black swimsuit, has at various points been honoured by the gracious form of Anushka Sharma. But priorities, in tune with sudde...
They’re calling it the ‘Pandemmys’—the biggest night in US television being hurled into the four corners by a supernova called corona. Thus did grandees, dressed to the nin...
Audiences of Bengali cinema had been unduly favoured by Nusrat Jahan—only they, it seemed, had a birthright to that bewitching smile, or the unending appeal of those pair of eyes...
Forced ‘at homes’ during the pandemic drove entire legions into the inviting arms of OTT platforms, desi or phoren. But as millions sat agape before their tellys, gripping thei...
