UNLIKE THE Taleban-friendly image that a section of the media portrays of him, Imran Khan is more of a peacenik, a new biography of the Pakistani cricketer-turned-politician says. The book Imran versus Imran: The Untold Story, published by Falcon & Falcon Books Limited, says while Imran is not vulnerable to war-like emotions, he wants love… Continue reading
THERE WILL never be another Rajesh Khanna. There never was another like him. Why? For the simple reason that nobody else in the Indian film industry —no other star before or after him— had the kind of charisma to transform something most mundane into the most magical. Kaka, as he was popularly known as, was… Continue reading
IT’S NOT just an era that has ended. Curtains have come down on many an era with the demise of Bollywood’s evergreen romantic hero and fashion icon Dev Anand, who has breathed his last in a London hospital. For, Dharam Dev Anand or Dev Saab, was still very much in the thick of it –… Continue reading
IN SEARCH of a new Afghanistan, a book by Indian author Sujeet Kumar Sarkar, treads the extra mile to unearth the layers and layers of myths about a war-ravaged country. These myths, Sarkar tells Mehre Alam, have been carefully nurtured by a ‘biased’ media (This article appeared in the Times of Oman newspaper on August 7, 2012) A13-Asia page… Continue reading