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Flashback | On 79th birth anniversary, Rajesh Khanna continues to live through movies and memories

Rajesh Khanna "loved to play the martyr both in his real life and reel. He would justify his transgressions as husband and family man by arguing that he was misunderstood. On screen, he repeatedly revealed a death wish."

Flashback | Shabana Azmi remembers Smita Patil: She was a microcosm of India, full of contradictions

"Smita Patil was a microcosm of India: traditional and modern, strong and fragile, confident and vulnerable. I think it's these contradictions that were both her strength and her weakness," says Shabana Azmi.

As Delhi Belly completes a decade, a look at Abhinay Deo's love letter to the bustling Indian capital

Delhi Belly was a cinematic equivalent of a rebellious-yet-intelligent angsty teen who had some major issues to resolve after years of tamed Bollywood dramedies and rom-coms.

Why 2011 was the year of losers - and bad karma

Everything that could go wrong went wrong in 2011. It was a lost year. 2012 could be the year we turn the world around.

Sean Bean wants Ned Stark to return to Game of Thrones

Actor Sean Bean wants to return to 'Game of Thrones', despite his character's death in the first season.

Flashback 2013: The winners and losers in Indian sport

In fact, Indian sports had very few success stories to talk of this year.

When Rushdie called Rajiv a philistine, an opportunist

In 1988, Salman Rushdie wrote a stinging letter to Rajiv Gandhi for banning his book. What he said then holds goods even now of the Indian state

India Nowhere: How we lost the plot, and our nerve, in 2011

Our economy went into a skid; our politics turned brutally confrontational; our policymakers lost their nerve; and as a nation, we've lost our confidence. A lookback at a horrid 2011.