Karachi was a popular city with the young ones for a variety of reasons. First and foremost was the glitter and the glitterati of this city and the second was the vibrancy.

I had decided that I would not burden my readers by going in detail with my boring and mundane journey through life.

Heart-warming, relaxing, and hilarious - is how I would define this anime.

Kolkata has been the city of dreams of my childhood and continues to be so until now.

25th March 1971. We left our old DOHS house just fifteen minutes before midnight.

Life in Ganderia was most engaging and colourful. I had developed friendship with a number of local kids of my age.

One might be astonished as to why I referred to the late Vinod Khanna as “Guru Bhai”. Our acquaintance was through Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, my Guruji.

I'm not a very emotional memory trotter, and I prefer to not be one. But, despite saying so, all the wonderful gifts of lessons that I had received from my guru, I treasure them, relish them, chew on them, brush them and whole heartedly respect and love them.

It was the film “Bhalobasha Bhalobasha”, which was directed by Mohammad Hannan. I had Shabnoor as my co-artist and I have to say, I managed to charm the audience despite that being my first film.

“Ain O Adalat” is the first popular crime-related show in Bangladesh. I started “Crime Watch” at 3rd July, 2003, on NTV. People received it quite well and it is still going strong. It has good value behind it thus people are watching each episode eagerly.

Dhaka was already getting crowded and there were a very few places where one could seek seclusion. So my visits to the outskirts of the town became frequent. During this time, while in town, I picked up friendship with some original Dhaka dwellers. These people, even today, are known as Dhakaiyas and are full of wit and humour.

Actually, I never wanted to be an actor. Everything was made possible by the renowned director, Zakir Hossain Raju sir.

To be honest, I was really nervous because it was my first film. There was not any particular preparation on my side before doing this film, and it was hyped up even before release.

Your film “Ami Tomar Hote Chai” is releasing soon. Tell us about your role in the film.

Dhaka then was considered the happening place, One afternoon Baba came back from his office and said that he was under order of transfer to Dhaka.

Mornings were glorious in the small towns of the then Bangladesh, with birds chirping, the hawkers' hawking and the most endearing voices of the servants waking us up, washing and dressing us to start the day anew.

It was a winter morning in Meherpur, then a subdivision under the district of Nodia, just before the partition of Bengal.

A lot of people are averse to watching adaptations of novels, and they are so because of valid reasons.

On August 1 1971, former Beatles' member George Harrison and Indian sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar organised two benefit concerts...

The other morning as I was sipping my fragrant Earl Grey tea, marveling at the picturesque golf view from my windows, sudden beautiful tune from far away Mumbai brightened by mind.