At President Kalam's Rameswaram home, his family hold a prayer ceremony of the eve of his first death anniversary.

Satyarup Siddhanta has just one mountain to go before he completes the Seven Summits, the tallest mountains in each of the seven continents.

Rediff.com's A Ganesh Nadar visits the site for former President Kalam's memorial.

Muthukrishnan was one of the passengers on the IAF flight that has gone missing in the Bay of Bengal.

Former supercop Rakesh Maria on the challenges of fighting crime.

Police in southern Tamil Nadu are facing grave charges of falsely implicating members of a nomadic tribe and torturing them into admitting to crimes they did not commit. A Ganesh Nadar reports from Kanyakumari.

Vasanthakumar, who started his career as a salesman, today owns a retail empire.

Four fishermen who traveled to the Middle East, dreaming of earning more money, instead ended in an Iranian jail.

'Every parent knows his or her child's potential. The problem is that they are not ready to accept it. They think they can push the child beyond his capacity.'

To escape charges in a rape case, a man in Tamil Nadu commits a murder.

Yuvaraj, accused of killing a Dalit youth in Tamil Nadu, has been externed in Tirunelveli where A Ganesh Nadar/Rediff.com met him.

'This was expected. Did you really expect a SIT formed by the Andhra government to find their cops guilty? It was a farce from the beginning.'

Did the transaction fail? Did you receive your money on time?

Brick buildings, drainage system excavated in Keezhadi village are on par with those found in Harappa.

When Mariappan approached the Indian embassy in Kuwait to get back his passport after deciding to leave his employer, he ended up in jail.

'We have petitioned the district collector and MEA to put pressure on the Saudis for compensation, but nothing has happened.' A Ganesh Nadar reports on the family's plight.

In an age when the electorate is increasingly impatient and changes governments every 5 years, how did the Tamil Nadu chief minister beat anti-incumbency?

While the crowds outside the AIADMK HQ seem to have taken victory for granted, a small crowd out the DMK HQ refuses to concede. A Ganesh Nadar/Rediff.com reports from Chennai.

A Ganesh Nadar shares interesting vignettes that usually get lost in the heat-and-dust of election coverage.

Undoubtedly, the Modi government's biggest challenge is to generate jobs for the 1 million Indians joining the work force every month. So, has 'achche din' arrived for all those young Indians eager to find jobs?