"My daddy is my hero!" – Priyanka Chandel

Meet Priyanka Chandel: the confident and pretty model and television artist from Dehradun   Tell us about the influence of your city on your upbringing? The city of Dehradun (Uttarakhand) has moral values instilled in me and I feel that these values are the key to my professional growth.   How did you end up in the MTV Splitsvilla? Honestly, […]

Maneka Gandhi: A model citizen

She is the holy grail of protecting the mute creatures i.e. animals. Animal lovers and activists around the globe and in India especially respect this woman for her bold stand in support of our four-legged friends. So what does an ad with Maneka Gandhi promoting a bathing towel in 1973 make you say? Apparently this beauty, before she became the Union Minister […]

Survival Of The Fairest

It’s not surprising when you read a news piece about an African model finding it difficult to get work in India because of her skin colour is it? Haven’t we been dealing with the issue of colour from the time we were colonised by the British? Back then it was an outside country deciding what was beautiful and “brown” wasn’t considered […]