Nilanjana Bhaduri Jha

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  Saroj Khan And Sridevi From Hawa Hawai Sets: "This Is A Sad Pic," Writes Mr India Director Shekhar Kapur

  "Saroj Khan would be sitting on a chair. Laughing. Sharing jokes with members of the set. Suddenly the music would come on. All eyes would turn to Saroj," wrote Shekhar Kapur

• Blog: A Kingfisher passenger on her journey

  Nilanjana Bhaduri Jha flew Kingfisher between Delhi and Mumbai twice in the last two days. Here is her story

• Blog: A Kingfisher passenger on her journey

  I flew Kingfisher. Not once, but twice in the last two days. I shall be lining up for a bravery award at the President's door, but that is another story. This one needs to be told first.

• Who is Janardhana Reddy?

  He is the middle brother of the three Reddys - the billionaire barons whose influence and clout in Karnataka's Bellary is legend. Gali Janardhana Reddy's enterprise and ambition that is said to have propelled the trio, and their constant aide Sriramulu, to dizzying heights of wealth and power.

• From breakdown to breakthrough, the 13-day Anna fast

  At 10:30 this morning, with thousands surrounding him at his protest camp in Delhi, Anna Hazare ended his hunger strike against corruption. In his 12-day fast, he has lost more than seven kilos; his doctors say they are worried about the 74-year-old's health.

• The Standing Committee looking into the Lokpal Bill

  Four days after it was introduced in the Lok Sabha, the Lok Pal Bill was referred to Parliament's Standing Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances and Law and Justice on August 8. This committee is headed by Congress Rajya Sabha MP Manu Abhishek Singhvi.

• There is Maggi in the Hills

  Serendipitous. Everything on the other side of Shimla. It's getting discovered though, inch by lovely inch, and moving towards the tedium of predictability. So hurry, grab the last few moments of being able to be in the only car driving down a long, curly...

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  Chennai and the Art of Eating Idlis

  All eyes are on a small pile of gunpowder. And a tiny rivulet of ghee snaking through it, threatening to flood over the edge of the banana leaf. It is my meal. But I am staring transfixed, not very sure what I do next. The elderly woman sitting next to...

• Catch: Baby laughs hysterically as dog pops bubbles

  Let me take all the credit for chasing your blues away this rather dull Thursday afternoon.Catch a most picture-perfect baby, Molly, with a picture-perfect pet dog, Bennie, enjoy a simple moment. The baby's laughs as the dog pops bubbles are so infectious I caught myself matching laugh for laugh and waiting for the next bubble to be popped. Hysteri...

• Catch: Narrow miss for cyclist as lorry overturns

  Ouch! This one hurt. Almost physically. You'd be forgiven for thinking that this is a long shot of a crossing somewhere in India. Because lorries with overloaded containers like this one -  long, unwieldy things swaying precariously -- jump traffic lights so often in big Indian cities that the law of probability will not allow such miraculous ...

• Catch: Wedding entrance dance with royal look-alikes

  Sitting in dusty Delhi as a little girl in 1981, I saw the world come to a standstill because there was a royal wedding in faraway London. Yessir, I have grown up with the knowledge that however irrelevant monarchy may be today, it's a story that sells.Little wonder then that everyone is tripping over himself to make hay while the sun shines over t...

• Flip, twist, spin: Catch him if you can

  There are some feats you don't write about. One, because you just do not have the necessary expertise to comment on a person's skills. And two, because that feat is so incredible, all you can do is gawk.  In such cases what you do is to show the feat. Catch Jozef Wadecki tumble. There are so many flips and spins here in a few seconds, that you...

• Catch: Amateur video shows tsunami fury

  I have always been a sea person. I live in a landlocked city with one river that is threatening to give up. I crave water. Vacations have almost always meant the ocean - big waves welcome, even grey and angry ones. But over the last three days, watching footage and pictures of Japan's devastation has been gut and heart wrenching. I do not thin...

• Catch: Amateur video shows tsunami fury

  I have always been a sea person. I live in a landlocked city with one river that is threatening to give up. I crave water. Vacations have almost always meant the ocean - big waves welcome, even grey and angry ones. But over the last three days, watching footage and pictures of Japan's devastation has been gut and heart wrenching. I do not think I...

• Catch: Love Marriage made him a YouTube star

  Disclaimer: I am not easy fan to net.But this is certified Gold. I am laughing uncontrollably as I write this, so excuse the typos.Move over Justin (discovered on YouTube) Beiber. Meet Wilbur Sargunaraj. His YouTube channel claims he is India's first YouTube star and just that he aspires to be that makes him a worthy Catch. Of course it doesn't hur...