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Assem Chhabra

Bollywood, glitter and Cannes

On Wednesday, Shobhaa De posted the following tweet “Vidya Balan does India proud on the red carpet at Cannes. Bravo Sabya!” Anyone following the media reports in India knows that Balan is part of this year’s main Cannes Film Festival jury. De was also saluting Sabyasachi Mukherjee, known for his traditional ....

Nalin Mehta

Once there was a GANEFO

The world turns on its axis, night comes after day, the Olympic Games are held every four years. The Olympics are so ubiquitous, so much a predictable, fixed feature of the rhythms of the world that it is easy to forget that they essentially began as a private initiative by a French aristocrat. ....