Over 600 theatre artistes and performers today released a statement asking people directly to vote against the BJP and its allies as the ruling party had given 'free rein to Hindutva goons'. The ...

Over 720 jurists, writers, actors, activists and citizens have issued a statement against the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill and the National Register of Citizens, describing these as “misguided” an...

Filmmaker Mrinal Sen passed away in his Calcutta home on Sunday morning, leaving behind a legacy of films that ushered in the 'new wave' in Indian cinema and kept it going. Actor Naseeruddin Shah has ...

Baba Ramdev has said it was 'very difficult' to predict the country's next Prime Minister in view of the current political situation.Noting that he was 'not focused' on politics, the 53-year-old yoga ...

She has been there but never done that. Seema Pahwa, Hum Log’s Badki and the mother in the recent hits Bareilly Ki Barfi and Shubh Mangal Saavdhan, has a new assignment in hand - direction. Though s...

Poet and screenplay writer Javed Akhtar on Saturday posed a query on social media, asking why speaking against the establishment is nowadays equated with speaking against the country.Akhtar was respon...

Actor Naseeruddin Shah has expressed support for the rights activists and other dissenters targeted for criticising the ruling dispensation — a group whose ranks he joined recently.“Is this where ...

We are in the Dasguptas’ apartment in south Calcutta. The 75-year-old has just returned from an evening walk with his wife Sohini, who has been his assistant director in the last few films. The apar...

Facts are sacred; at least they ought to be in a society that claims to be civilized. Curiously, New India has witnessed a steady and orchestrated assault on not just facts but also those who seek to ...

We are like that only Shah iterated in the video how he is worried for his children. The fact that they should have to inhabit a polarised context when they were brought up minus any mazhabi taleem (r...