by Amrita Priya | Jan 16, 2024
(January 16, 2024) Renowned for securing the best actress award at the 1965 Berlin Film Festival for her portrayal of a pompous Bollywood star in Merchant Ivory’s film ‘Shakespeare Wallah’, Madhur Jaffrey is a trailblazer in the culinary world. She...
by Amrita Priya | Oct 24, 2023
(October 24, 2023) The festive fervour was in air much in advance this year for the organisers of Hamstead Durga Puja organised by the London Durga Puja Dusserah Association. This year marks a momentous occasion as the oldest Durga Puja celebration in the UK, has...
by Amrita Priya | Oct 2, 2023
(October 2, 2023) When Ben Kingsley was shooting for the 1982 film Gandhi, his resemblance to Mahatma Gandhi was so strong that locals at the film shoot thought that he was the late leader’s ghost. Over the years, several notable actors like Naseeruddin Shah and...
by Amrita Priya | May 28, 2023
(May 28, 2023) As Meera Syal was being presented BAFTA lifetime achievement award in a glittering ceremony in London this month, she placed a bindi on it and said, ‘it represents change’. The England-born actress was also presented a BAFTA Fellowship in recognition of...
by Amrita Priya | May 6, 2023
(May 6, 2023) After passing out of King’s College London, when UK-born Rita Kakati-Shah joined investment bank Goldman Sachs’ sales training desk in 2001, she discovered that there were very few women at the training floor of the London headquarter. This perturbed...
