Actor-turned-author and columnist Twinkle Khanna is known for her witty retorts and she has proved it once again. Recently, during her new book, titled “Welcome To Paradise” launch event, her husband and Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar managed to put her in a spot, but she managed to steal the limelight with her witty response. ‘Khiladi Kumar’ asked her if men are ‘irrelevant’ as the lead characters of Twinkle Khanna’s book are women. While replying to Akshay Kumar’s query “No, you need dessert right? To be happy.
19 December,2023 07:55 PM IST | Mumbai
Ex-monk, now bestselling LA author Jay Shetty who officiated Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck’s fairytale wedding, tells us that romance is one-part chemistry and four-parts work #JayShetty #Love #relationship
12 February,2023 12:48 PM IST | Mumbai
Jadunama, a book written on veteran writer-lyricist Javed Akhtar by Arvind Mandloi, was released on January 9. Javed’s wife, actor Shabana Azmi and children Zoya and Farhan Akhtar were present at the book launch. Javed Akhtar shared his views about society’s influence on cinema. He also talked about the story behind writing the Dard-E-Disco song.
12 January,2023 07:13 AM IST | Mumbai
Watch partition scholar and oral historian Aanchal Malhotra talk about her new book which records the inherited memories of families, who’ve loved and lost their homelands, and how they continue to carry these stories with them.
15 May,2022 09:29 PM IST | Mumbai
Journalist and author Meghna Pant’s new book Boys Don't Cry (Penguin Random House) fictionalises a harrowing personal story of abuse and yet holds on to messages of hope and redemption. In her new book which is "based on a true story, mostly", we meet her heroine Maneka picking up white oleanders - markers of new beginnings - at a florist as she plans to throw a divorce party.
13 February,2022 08:52 PM IST | Mumbai
Veteran poet-lyricist Javed Akhtar and his actress wife Shabana Azmi released the book titled 'The Stars In My Sky' authored by actress Divya Dutta in Mumbai on November 10. The event was attended by others like Gurdas Maan, Rakeysh Mehra and Sriram Raghavan among others
12 November,2021 12:00 AM IST
Writer Daman Singh's new book shines a light on India’s tryst with mental health care over the last century, how historical events impacted asylums, and why force against patients came to be replaced by empathy
10 October,2021 12:00 AM IST | Mumbai
Architect-urbanist-educator Rahul Mehrotra, who started his practice in Mumbai in 1990 with the establishment of RMA Architects, is out with a new book, Working in Mumbai (CEPT University Press), which weaves a narrative to connect his multiple engagements in architectural practice, including teaching, research, writing, documenting and exhibiting. Mehrotra speaks with mid-day over a Zoom call, about Mumbai and why it’s a city that needs to be dealt with generously
08 August,2021 12:00 AM IST | Mumbai
Author Kaveree Bamzai who has authored a new book on Bollywood's most famed Khan trio discusses why Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan and Aamir Khan continue to remain relevant even three decades since their debut. The author believes that story of Aamir, Salman, and Shah Rukh will always be linked with that of modern Indian history. “They will be remembered as] three men, who were once young, just as India was; who grew up with India; who made mistakes, celebrated their successes, and tried again after falling, just like India did.”
18 July,2021 12:00 AM IST | Mumbai
Delhi-based art historian-curator Alka Pande is out with a new book, Pha(bu)llus: A Cultural History. She talks about sculpture, painting, communities and temples that continue to celebrate and revere the phallus
14 June,2021 12:00 AM IST | MumbaiADVERTISEMENT
