




By Cheri Shankar They want to call it hunting, but it's not. It's nothing more than animal torment and killing. I'm referring to "hounding," which is the use of dogs to chase down prey animals, cornering them or sending them up trees where they can be ...
Mamata Shankar has just returned from Cannes after the screening of her father, Uday Shankar's Kalpana that got a good response. But back home, she is unhappy with the turn of events, where her uncle Pt Ravi Shankar was forced to decline the Banga ...
Since last August the Indian rupee has been volatile and weak. The rupee-dollar parity dropped from 44-46 last summer to a low of 54.2 in mid-December. Some regulatory measures and substantial market intervention by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in ...
The 1960 Uday Shankar classic, Kalpana, was languishing like many other films at the National Film Archives in Pune. Dungarpur took it upon himself to get it restored, and now, an almost forgotten film is the centre of attention at the Cannes Film ...