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MasterChef India: Where the contestants cry more than they cook

Pure vegetarian or not, could the new Masterchef India show a little more cooking and a little less crying?

Parineeti's orange blazer, Varun Dhawan's award and other mysteries of the Stardust awards

A few questions after watching the Stardust awards on television last night.

Porn stars, film stars and the end of saas-bahu: 2014 was a bizarre year for Indian television

It hasn’t been all good or all bad for the idiot box in 2014. We take a look at the year of Indian television

Diandra's hero, Karishma's villain: Salman Khan's double role on Bigg Boss

Just when Salman Khan surprises us all by standing up for women on Bigg Boss, he throws a curveball and makes a woman cry on the show.

Bigg Boss 8: Kissing contestants don't help, the show is turning into a yawn

Bigg Boss is slowly turning into one big yawn. And I’m one of the few people I know who is extremely accepting of its mediocrity.

Vital Stats of India: Thank god, we've finally got a good Indian non-reality show

One show doesn't make a channel, but hey, it’s a good start. Vital Stats is being telecast at prime-time, 9pm on a Friday, and to the best of my knowledge, is the first full series created by History Channel’s local programming team.

Dear Sanjeev Kapoor, no non-veg on Masterchef is a stupid, terrible idea

So why not a Masterchef India with only female contestants, divided into separate kitchens according to caste, cooking only vegetarian food limited to lauki and tinda. Does that sound like incredible India?

Behold Bigg Boss' screwed up sense of morality: Puneet's punches vs Parineeti's 'harassment'

What’s more disturbing than any of this rubbish, is that "Duryodhan of Maharbharat" (the incorrect spelling is of Facebook’s and not mine) has been trending for the last 24 hours on facebook. Really?

Ashutosh Gowariker's 'Fair & Lovely' Everest: Scaling new heights in bad television

The first episode of Everest displayed some stunningly bad acting, shoddy attention to detail and a brilliant branding platform for Fair & Lovely

Splitsvilla wrap: It's time for reality-tv style backstabbing

It’s Splitsvilla Episode 18 and we are now close to finale time. This also means we are close to reality tv style back-stabbing.