All stories by Monali Sarkar
Were you following @POTUS?
Rediff.com20 Jan 2017The @POTUS account, with its 13.2 million followers, moves from the Obama administration to the Trump administration. And, for now, Donald Trump intends to tweet as usual from both!
Meet Trump's Cabinet and Inner Circle
Rediff.com20 Jan 2017Incoming US President Donald Trump has assembled a core team that is -- not surprisingly -- overwhelmingly white and male.
Will Naeem Khan dress Melania Trump?
Rediff.com19 Jan 2017Michelle Obama's favourite desi designer will not be dressing the incoming US First Lady.
Forbes 30 Under 30: A case study for immigration
Rediff.com19 Jan 2017Of the 600 young change makers who made the cut this year '1:6 are immigrants from 44 countries' -- an important ratio in the age of growing protectionism.
The power bahus of Uttar Pradesh
Rediff.com9 Jan 2017The kings of the ruling family of India's heartland -- father Mulayam Singh Yadav, the Samajwadi party supremo, and son Akhilesh Yadav, the UP chief minister -- are at war. And as on any chessboard, the queens have emerged as the power centres. Meet Dimple Yadav and Aparna Yadav.
Golden Globes to Oscars: Designers Priyanka Chopra loves
Rediff.com9 Jan 2017Who does Priyanka Chopra trust to get her stage ready for international awards? Meet her go-to designers.
The 2 Raj Shahs America is talking about
Rediff.com6 Jan 2017One Raj Shah has been the top Indian American in the Obama administration; the other Raj Shah is poised to play a key role in the Trump administration.
In photos: Making of the next A R Rahman
Rediff.com6 Jan 2017On Oscar and Grammy-winning composer A R Rahman's 50th birthday we take you inside his dream music school -- the K M Music Conservatory.
30 Under 30: The world is watching these Indian super achievers
Rediff.com5 Jan 2017The Forbes 30 Under 30 list is harder to get into than Stanford or Harvard University. Meet the desis who made the cut this year.
In photos: India in a New York subway
Rediff.com5 Jan 2017New York City's newly inaugurated Second Avenue subway line features museum quality mosaic art, including portraits of Sikh-American designer Waris Ahluwalia and an Indian woman in a sari. Inside the stations that were a century in the making.
PIX: This US Congress swearing-in is historic for all desis
Rediff.com4 Jan 2017Not only does the new US Congress have the first Indian-American US Senator, for the first time in history it also has four Indian Americans in the House of Representatives! Glimpses of the change of guard.
Good riddance to 2016!
Rediff.com30 Dec 2016Some shred them. Some smashed them. Some trashed them. And they had us wishing we too could be there getting rid of the worst memories of 2016. Inside the Good Riddance Day in New York City.
The most stylish theatres to watch a Bollywood film
Rediff.com29 Dec 2016With Mumbai's iconic Liberty cinema reopening for movie lovers, the spotlight is now on the city's famous Art Deco theatres.
How you paid for petrol, diesel in 2016
Rediff.com29 Dec 2016From the November 2014 price of $106 per barrel crude oil prices dipped to as low as $26 per barrel in January 2016 and remained flat for much of the year. Did the fuel prices reflect that?
In pictures: A tale of two demonetisations
Rediff.com27 Dec 2016How the demonetisation drives in India and Venezuela have played out.
Kapoors, Pataudis, Tagores: Taimur Ali Khan's royal lineage
Rediff.com22 Dec 2016Kareena Kapoor and Saif Ali Khan's family trees are packed with actors, pioneers of cinema, cricketers and even a Nobel Laureate!
Welcome, little nawab: Inside Taimur Ali Khan's nursery
Rediff.com22 Dec 2016Mommy Kareena Kapoor and daddy Saif Ali Khan have put together a nursery fit for royalty -- complete with the Pataudi crest -- for their baby.
'There can be positive things on the Internet'
Rediff.com10 Oct 2016'I always used to say ignore the trolls and move on and focus on your fans and friends,' Sreenath Sreenivasan tells Rediff.com's Monali Sarkar. 'That was easy for me to say. But now when I say it, I really mean it.'
'I have never wanted to distance myself from India'
Rediff.com12 Sep 2016'The more I lived in India, the more I realised that America was my home too.'
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