The BBC is under fire from Right-wing newspapers for putting on an Indian during a live TV debate with five Tory leadership candidates without telling over 5 million viewers that Aman Thakar was an ac...

When Anupam Kher received the script for a new BBC drama Mrs Wilson, he was initially a little miffed.His character, Shahbaz Karim, did not even appear till “the last two pages”.Weren’t they awa...

Sony BBC Earth is set to bring an anthology Not Rocket Science consisting of three science-based shows — Secrets of Everything, Factomania and Bang Goes the Theory — that will provide answers to a...

Remember Charles Sobhraj? He was the Indian origin serial killer who was locked up in Tihar Jail from 1976 to 1997 and who has been described variously as a thief, fraudster, psychopath, and as someon...

The BBC journalist and broadcaster Samira Ahmed is expecting to get back a reported £700,000 in lost earnings after she successfully sued her employer under the Equal Pay Act.Samira seems possessed o...

The miniskirt, the focus of a new exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum, was a political statement by the fashion designer, Mary Quant, in London of the Swinging Sixties. It was a revolutiona...

A report on the state of global media freedom compiled by the British House of Commons’s Foreign Affairs Committee came out recently. The committee chair, Tom Tugendhat, said, “When journalists lo...

Several authors familiar to Indian readers figure on a BBC list of “100 novels that shaped our world”.“Stories have the power to change us,” says the BBC, which has drawn up the list “to kic...

From family members I hear of neighbourhood trees that fell during Cyclone Amphan. Quite apart from the human toll, it was also very sad to read about the countless birds that lost their homes or even...

Shine with hard workI really wanted to know about the personal side of Bhramar Mukherjee’s life. In Calcutta, she had been an academic high-flier at Presidency College and the Indian StatisticalInst...