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The Village of Heroes

The village in Maharashtra has continuously sent soldiers to the army since World War I. Every other person you meet is a soldier or a retired soldier or is aspiring to be a soldier. Text: Archana......

The Pillar That Inspires India

The Ashokan Pillar in Kolhua, Bihar, is one of India's best maintained historical sites. All Photographs: Archana Masih/Rediff.com The Ashokan Pillar with a single lion stands gloriously......

Security Breach: What Can Keep Modi Safe

In this event, it is the IAF that showed true professionalism, telling the boss they weren't going to fly in that weather.You can see what professionalism and moral courage it takes to say no to......

How can Hindutva be compared to ISIS?

Irrespective of their voting preferences, most voters would find this comparison with ISIS revolting.More specifically, would it persuade anybody who voted for Narendra Modi to change her or his......

Life at ITBP's coronavirus quarantine facility

'The government has made good arrangements to tackle this situation.''At the ITBP camp, doctors have arrived from different hospitals from every state of India.''They have training on how to deal......

Acche Din seems to have receded further and further

'Our prime minister has set a scorching pace. He's logged more airline miles than professional airline pilots... On his regular visits to Delhi, he has also signed files galore.' 'How much of this......

It might be working Saturdays for Indian stock exchanges

Your five-day week may be history. So, could be your Saturday siesta. If some quiet brainstorming in big board rooms crystallises, equity market participants may have to put in an extra day at......

What to expect in Volkswagen's NEW Passat

Goa is a great place to be. The sun is out, the roads are freshly laid with clean tarmac (well, at least most of them) and it is siesta time for the locals. There can't be a better moment than......

Corporate residences give hotels competition

Corporate residences are now giving five-star hotels a run for their money. The trend, which started almost five years ago, has picked up fast, with several companies preferring to set up their own......

Chinese telecom companies 'Indianising' management

Leading Chinese telecom equipment manufacturers, Huawei Technologies Co Ltd and ZTE Corporation, have launched an aggressive 'Indianisation' drive. The two companies are replacing Chinese nationals......

When Samantha's Eyes Do The Talking

Mouni is ready for a nap... Karishma sleeps in... Rasika sunbathes... Please click on the images for a look at the stars. IMAGE: Samantha, who is shooting Kushi with Vijay......

Like Mouni Roy's bikini?

Photograph: Kind courtesy Mouni Roy/Instagram It's siesta time for Mouni Roy. Photograph: Kind courtesy Nia Sharma/Instagram Can you guess who this actress is? Photograph: Kind......

A day in our lives, Aamir Khan style!

Mr Perfectionist perfectly sums up our day! Have you ever wondered what a day in Aamir Khan's life would be like? Is his breakfast a regular one, like ours? Does he enjoy an afternoon siesta? Does......

Just what do Bollywood stars do on a flight?

Sleeping is just *one* of the pass-times, notes Sukanya Verma. Bed, gym, car or plane, Bollywood stars will snap a picture any time, any place. With the amount of traveling they do, it's not......

Naalu Pennungal review

Master director Adoor Gopalakrishnan's Naalu Pennungal (Four Women), which premiered recently at the Masters Section of the Toronto International Film Festival has reached Kerala theatres. The thin......

Warne was watching Australia-Pakistan Test before he died

The spin legend was on a three-month holiday in Thailand. IMAGE: Shane Warne was without doubt the finest leg-spinner of all time. Photograph: Philip Brown/Reuters The cricketing world was......

Diary: Sleepy Spain players prefer siesta to World Cup drama

'We have been watching the games we can at our base. The first coincides with siesta time and the second with training.' IMAGE: Spain's players have been unable to watch some World Cup games......

Want to join the WWE? Listen to The Great Khali

'Olympic wrestling is like an old Nokia phone.''WWE is like an iPhone.'The Great Khali's academy turns pro-wrestling dreams into reality, reports Dhruv Munjal. IMAGE: The Great Khali with Jinder......

What it takes to be a Dangal wrestler

'Some of the good wrestlers are making really good money.''If you look at their lifestyles, they are no less compared to our cricketers.'Dhruv Munjal reports. IMAGE: A wrestler rubs his hands with......

Federer, Djokovic, Murray: Who will outgun whom this time?

This edition of Wimbledon is certain to serve up a treat. And like any feast, it will throw up few upsets too, says M P Anil KumarWimbledon has once again laid out the ryegrass carpet for tennis......

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