‘Baahubali 2’ Film Review: Ships fly, trees swing and Director's imagination soars

The concluding part of the period epic, starring Prabhas and Rana Daggubati, is on the money.

The concluding part of SS Rajamouli’s fictional period film is set up to answer one crucial question: why did the loyal general Kattappa kill Amarendra Baahubali? It’s also a story of vengeance and righting a series of wrongs.

Depression rate growing among youth. Is modern life to blame?

Our mental health has suffered over the past 80 years. The causes are complex, but it’s exhausting to live in a society where asking for help equals failure.

Anxiety and depression are isolating illnesses, but sufferers are hardly alone: according to a new book, the number of young Americans who’ve struggled with these mental health issues over the last 80 years has increased steadily.

The big question: Is yoga for power or fitness, wisdom or devotion?

Today, any understanding of yoga is often obscured by a grand media war to dominate the discourse on yoga.

They say Jesus could walk on water, and turn water into wine. Many have postulated that he was a yogi, with siddha powers. That he must have learned it in a Hindu or Buddhist monastery in India during his missing years. This yoga-of-power is very different from the popular, and sanitised, yoga-for-fitness of the global village, or the yoga-for-devotion of the religious and the spiritual.

Are the internet and social media an opportunity or a distraction for poets?

Perhaps poetry can find its true worth and real readers online. Or perhaps not all poems need to be read.

Jim Jarmusch’s recent film, Paterson, is about a poet named Paterson, set in the small town of Paterson. The lead character, played by the beguiling Adam Driver, is a bus driver who writes poems in a little book he keeps on his person. He is married to Laura, played elegantly by Golshifteh Farahani, a directionless yet supportive housewife whose artistic aspirations and interests change by the day.

The plot thickens with the Supreme Court order on Ayodhya: Has Modi thrown Advani under the bus?

Eyebrows are raised in Hindutva circles over the role played by the CBI in reviving the conspiracy charge against BJP leaders.

When you are accused of inciting others to commit an offence, does that not imply your own complicity in a premeditated crime? Especially when the ones allegedly instigated by you are themselves being tried for conspiring to commit the very same crime?

WHAT A HUSBAND TOLD HIS WIFE THE NIGHT OF THEIR MARRIAGE?

My wife, everyone has gone home. The music is quiet, the celebration is over. Our wedding was beautiful but it is now in the past. We have finished the wedding/marriage, it is now time to build our marriage.

All that is left now is the two of us… What we will become tomorrow, starts from tonight. Our life is no longer the same.

Will the Rs 200 note save the nation?

As of now just a speculation, its production might begin after June this year.

According to a report in Mint , there is sufficient reason to believe that the government is ushering in a Rs 200 note. The decision, according to the report, was taken at the RBI board meeting in March, claimed two sources inside the RBI who refused to be named citing a lack of authorisation.

Is Mid-term poll likely in Telangana?

Will Telangana face mid-term polls next year? 

This is the question which is making rounds in the ruling TRS circles. Sources close to CM did not rule out the possibility of midterm polls in 2018. They are avoiding saying anything openly. Sources indicated that KCR has made up his mind to go for Assembly polls without waiting for the general elections of 2019.Those who are close to CM have hinted that Mr. KCR is in favour of midterm polls presenting his son, Mr. KTR as the next CM. KCR wants to grab power before BJP and other opposition parties get stabilized in the State.

RECYCLING AGENTS: Waste pickers live, work with pride

A glimpse into the lives of women waste-pickers in Pune.

Suman More, 50, is no stranger to picking herself up and getting on. So, when she fell during a recent Marathon in her city and bruised her hand and ankle she waved away most help, except for cleaning the wound, and continued on,