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Madhubala, famously called 'the living Taj Mahal' and 'India's Marilyn Monroe' never found love in real life. The actor tragically died 55 years ago today, at the age of 36.

These Bollywood siblings lived in a storeroom for 6 years and are now worth over Rs 120 crore.

Filmmaker Ashoke Pandit responded to Mahindras post by saying,

Little remains of the thousands of silent features made in early-20th-century India. That doesn’t make the story of how they...

Little remains of the thousands of silent features made in early-20th-century India. That doesn’t make the story of how they came to be – and why they disappeared – any less interesting.

Priya Satia: Why poetry remains a primary resource in remembering and understanding the Partition The first instalment of an essay originally published in 2016. Yesterday · 12:30 pm Displacement is central to Punjabi identity as it is to Jewish and Armenian identity. | Wikimedia Commons (Public domain) What is the poet’s role in history? For a historian of Britain like myself, this question calls to mind the work of EP Thompson, who read the history of the English wo...

Hyderabad: The Madhya Pradesh cabinet recently approved the Religious Freedom Bill 2020, which provides for a prison term of up to 10 years and a fine of

The people of the Subcontinent have always been interested in listening to light music, geet, ghazal, qawwali, folk songs and Sufi music. Prior to the advent of ‘talkie’ films, going to watch live theatre was a popular means of entertainment and such venues usually took on performers who could not only act, but also sing. The first subcontinental talkie film was Alam Ara; it premiered in March 1931 and had seven songs in Urdu. Both the film and its music were hugely successful and set a tre...