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“My family is my strength and my weakness.”- Aishwarya Rai Bachhan There have been intensely gripping stories with individuals and their families in the vortex of action, comedy and even drama; yet Director Nishikant Kamat’s Drishyam at 163 minutes falls a bit short of quite a few of the highContinue Reading

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March 5, 1966 is perhaps the least known of many dates of infamy associated with Indira Gandhi. Less than two months into her prime ministership, the ‘Iron Lady of India’ ordered the only airstrike by India on her own citizens. The target: Aizawl and surrounding villages in (then) Assam’s LushaiContinue Reading

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Former pope Saint John Paul II had used the Vatican Bank to “fund” the Solidarity movement in his native Poland. The Bank, which was a “haven for mobsters, mafia men and money launderers, helped Nazis and Fascists rob and murder Jews and other non-Catholics in the mid 20th century.” TheseContinue Reading