Zahira Sheikh is paying the price for perjury. Her flip-flop-flip has cost her a year’s jail sentence plus a Rs 50,000 fine. There’s no reason why Shyan Munshi, a hostile witness in the Jessica Lall case and no victim, should be treated any differently. HT Image Ok, so Zahira Sheikh is a liar. A big liar whose flip-flop-flip has cost her a year’s jail sentence plus a Rs 50,000 fine — failure to pay will result in another year in jail. The prime witness in the Best Bakery case has surrendered in a Mumbai court. Zahira will serve time and…

A retrospective of the artist’s works, on display at a premier Delhi art gallery, tells a variety of tales. HT Image He is one of the country’s best-known artists. Now, the premier art institution, the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Delhi, is honoring Satish Gujral with a retrospective of his works. The Satish Gujral retrospective, in Delhi, includes 200 of the artist’s works — including sculptures, charcoals, and oils. On display are some of his earliest works from 1948 to his latest sports series. “I’m celebrating the joy of life,” says the 80-year-old, Jhelum-born artist who began his career…

He is one of the country’s best-known artists. Now, the premier art institution, the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Delhi, is honoring Satish Gujral with a retrospective of his works. HT Image He is one of the country’s best-known artists. Now, the premier art institution, the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Delhi, is honoring Satish Gujral with a retrospective of his works. The Satish Gujral retrospective, in Delhi, includes 200 of the artist’s works — including sculptures, charcoals, and oils. On display are some of his earliest works from 1948 to his latest sports series. “I’m celebrating the…

Refusing to accept Maxim Editor’s apology, actress Khushboo has filed a petition with Chennai Police. HT Image There is a new twist to the Maxim-Khushboo tale. Ever since the lad mag Maxim published an admittedly morphed picture of the southern film star — using her face on the body of a woman dressed in underwear — Khushboo has threatened legal action. But while the publishers have been waiting for legal notice, what they seem to have got instead is an eve-teasing charge. Refusing to accept Maxim editor Sunil Mehra’s apology, Khushboo filed a petition with Chennai police commissioner R. Nataraj…

THERE IS a new twist to the Maxim-Khushboo tale. Ever since the lad mag Maxim published an admittedly morphed picture of the southern film star — using her face on the body of a woman dressed in underwear — Khushboo has threatened legal action. HT Image THERE IS a new twist to the Maxim-Khushboo tale. Ever since the lad mag Maxim published an admittedly morphed picture of the southern film star — using her face on the body of a woman dressed in underwear — Khushboo has threatened legal action. But while the publishers have been waiting for legal notice,…

Refusing to accept Maxim Editor’s apology, actress Khushboo has filed a petition with Chennai Police. There is a new twist to the Maxim-Khushboo tale. Ever since the lad mag Maxim published an admittedly morphed picture of the southern film star — using her face on the body of a woman dressed in underwear — Khushboo has threatened legal action. But while the publishers have been waiting for legal notice, what they seem to have got instead is an eve-teasing charge. HT Image Refusing to accept Maxim editor Sunil Mehra’s apology, Khushboo filed a petition with Chennai police commissioner R. Nataraj…

Chanda Shroff is the moving force behind a project that sustains thousands of families, reports Namita Bhandare. HT Image She’s an unlikely social crusader. Conservatively dressed, married into a wealthy Mumbai-based family of industrialists, Chanda Shroff is the moving force behind a project that sustains thousands of families in drought-prone Kutch. Chandaben, or Kaki as she is universally known around Shrujan, the organisation she founded in 1969, is also the only Indian Laureate of the Rolex Award for Enterprise (RAE) announced every two years ‘to encourage a spirit of enterprise in visionary individuals around the globe’. Rolex launched the awards…

Swiss International Air Lines is not out to spoil you silly. But it scores on ? quality, reliability, and hospitality? ott:10:ht-entertainment_listing-desktop HT Image It’s funny how airlines acquire their own image. Take Virgin Atlantic. No matter how much on the straight and narrow you are, flying Virgin will conjure up all sorts of images — not all of them the sort you’d discuss with your mother. Or then there’s Singapore Airlines. Great food, great service but down to brass tacks it’s always about those wonderful women. Closer home, take Air India. Despite Praful Patel’s best intentions — it now serves…

In November last year, the rape of a Maulana Azad Medical College student in broad daylight focused attention on how unsafe Delhi had become for women. A public furor broke out and Deputy Prime Minister L.K. Advani declared that convicted rapists should be given the death sentence. In popular perception, death for rapists — failing which, castration — seems to be the most fitting punishment. Only extreme measures can serve as an effective deterrent, goes the argument. The existing punishment under section 376 of the Indian Penal Code is a maximum of 10 years in jail. Even the National Commission…

A consensual theme that emerged from HT Leadership Initiative was ‘need to open borders, extend dialogue and expand understanding among South Asian nations’. HT Image If there was one consensual theme that emerged from the two-day Hindustan Times Leadership Initiative on “Peace Dividend — Progress for India and South Asia”, it was this: the need to open borders, extend dialogue and expand understanding among the countries of the region. Delegate after high-powered delegate spoke with some measure of urgency for countries of the region to adopt a more generous stand and foster better understanding and communication with each other. While Prime Minister…

For a place to treat its homeless they way it does, Delhi is one callous city. Namita Bhandare writes HT Image On a foggy winter afternoon early this week, I went looking for the invisible and found Bibi Ayesha, wheelchair-bound, lean, with a grin and optimism placed equally on her face. Bibi is telling me about home — her home in a makeshift tent with two rows of neatly made-up beds, one side for men, the other for women and children. She is telling me of how her real home, a jhuggi near Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium was demolished in a…

There is a clear link between keeping girls in school and delaying marriage. Raising the minimum age of marriage for girls to 21 is not a solution We are in danger of losing this gain due to the pandemic. As this newspaper reported, 166,000 students, girls and boys, in Delhi government and municipal schools have fallen off the grid as a result of education moving online. One can only speculate on how many will eventually return to school, and whether some have already joined the labour force or been married off. (Santosh Kumar/HT) Growing up in a village in Rajasthan’s…