Beijing 2008

The upcoming Olympic Games in Beijing have stirred great expectations. Prabhjot Singh on how China is gearing up for the biggest sports event

With the Beijing Olympic Games just a fortnight away, both China and its Olympic Committee face more hostilities than support for not living up to the Olympics motto of ‘one world one dream’. Indian hopes

‘I want to get out of the item number trap’
With leading roles in big banners lined up for release soon, Ishaa Koppikar is all set for an image makeover, writes Shoma A. Chatterji
You have a background in modelling. But how did films happen?
I got into modelling merely for pocket money. No one in my family has ever been remotely linked either to modelling or films. My father is a gynaecologist and my mother used to work in a bank. My grandmother was the first woman graduate to come out of Mumbai’s R. R. Ruia College.