I met Tarun decades ago in New York when he was studying fashion. Undoubtedly today India’s leading designer, Tarun Tahiliani not only created a couture label at par with the international design fraternity, but a look synonymous with glamour and feminity that the women wear with aplomb.

I was a 19-year-old happy-go-lucky youngster, and like most others at that age, I had just started to enjoy the fun and freedom that college life entails. On August 12, 1997, a series of bullets ripped the life out of my father and turned mine around in a manner I wasn’t prepared for.

Not getting your mind messed up by what anyone thinks of you — that’s the real secret to getting a man, getting a job or getting anything you want in life.

I am a semi-literate person and work as daily wage earner. I did not know just how good my daughter Babina was in studies until her teachers and friends told me that she was a good student.

I met a delightful young man on a flight to Delhi. He introduced himself as Rodney Fernandes.

We were a family of small farmers and my husband and I used to work on our plot of land.

The 20 years I spent in Indian prison was the worst phase of my life. I wasted some of my most precious years languishing in the back of beyond for doing nothing.

The alpha male of matinee cinema always has a seductively powerful voice. Try as hard as you can, you can’t detect the slightest shade of fear in it. Heroine’s father tells him to go jump?

‘I won’t spare my son’s killers’

From the time you wake up, tiny ripples of fear ripple across the living waters of your mind, barely visible below the surface, forming patterns that break and regroup all the time — sometimes taking