Benjamin Netanyahu, the first Israeli prime minister to visit India in 15 years, accompanied by his wife Sara on a six-day visit to India, were given a warm welcome by Prime Minister Modi. Driving the growing ties is both leaders' shared worldview for national-security and free-markets. Both see Israel's technology-oriented...
Disney Channel Co-produces Indian Superhero Series
Graphic India, a comic and animation company partly owned by Peter Chernin’s CA Media Group, will work with Disney Channel India on a 52-episode superhero series titled Astra Force in partnership with Bollywood icon Amitabh Bachchan. Astra Force is the story of a mythical hero, who, after an epic space...
Oprah's Next Chapter, in India, with the Big B
Oprah Winfrey is in India to film a segment of her new show, "The Next Chapter," staying at The Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in south Mumbai. She is virtually unkown in India since her erstwhile show did not air in India. Wearing an orange sari, Winfrey, visited the home of...
Mathematicians in Movies: Only in Bollywood
Sir Ben Kingsley, who played the the title role in 1982's Oscar-winning Gandhi (and much less remembered role in the worst movie of the 21st Century so far, the Love Guru) is soon to be seen in a Bollywood movie, Teen Patti ( three cards, or three-card poker). Perci Trachtenberg...