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Jayalalithaa, despite her professional achievements, always remained in the news for her personal life, especially for her affair with MG Ramachandran, popularly known as 'M.G.R.', former CM of Tamil ...

Jayalalithaa, the Tamil film icon, was one of the most successful stars of her time. In a film career that spanned two decades, Jayalalithaa was the top female star in both Tamil and Telugu film ...

Simply put, Mixbook remains the best service of the five we tested for making photo books. While some competitors excelled at one thing or another, Mixbook does just about everything right. Its ...

It's a simple question without an easy answer: What makes a best book of the year? Is it a novel begging to become a contemporary classic or a retelling of the classics themselves? Is it a book ...

Bengaluru: A mother’s life, a son’s memory and a lost world of women kotha performers can be a heady yet challenging cocktail for a book. His mother Rekha Devi’s story is a thrilling saga of guns, ...

Chennai: On the midnight of 23 April 2017, nearly five months after Tamil Nadu former Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa’s death, her summer retreat, the Kodanad estate at Nilgiris’ Kothagiri, became the ...

Anne Frank’s diary has become one of the most famous books about the Holocaust, and it remains one of the most introspective, enlightening accounts of what it was like to be a Jewish child living in ...

Jayalalithaa. In the later stages of his career, Ganesh also ventured into television and short films, continually engaging audiences with his unique style. His cameo as Alfred Pennyworth in the ...

Ganesan received the Tamil Nadu State Film Award Special Prize for his performance in Pasi (1979) and was later honoured with the prestigious Kalaimamani award in 1994 by then Chief Minister J ...

Indeed, throughout the decades, plenty of books — some highly acclaimed, some much more obscure — have been taken by filmmakers and transformed into some of the greatest motion pictures in ...