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The hypocrisy of Donald Trump
Rediff.com18 Oct 2018'None of his grandparents, and only one of his parents, was born in the US or spoke English as their mother tongue.' 'Of his three wives, one was born in Czechoslovakia and one in Slovenia.' 'Where would Trump have been if they, too, had 'rejected the ideology of globalism and embraced the doctrine of patriotism'?' asks Sunanda K Datta-Ray.
#377: Don't look, but India is changing!
Rediff.com6 Oct 2018In the past decade-and-a-half, sections of urban India have become much more liberal about accepting gay men and women than our colonial-era laws might have suggested, says Rahul Jacob.
150 years on: How the Tatas flew with their dreams
Rediff.com17 Sep 2018The Tata empire turns 150 this year. R Gopalakrishnan, former director, Tata Sons Ltd, imagines a conversation among the group's founder Jamsetji, his son Dorabji, his successor, Nowroji Saklatwala, and his successor, J R D Tata.
'BJP won't benefit from the NRC electorally'
Rediff.com13 Aug 2018'Most Assamese don't understand a word like ghuspethiya and its insulting connotation.'
India, Merchant-Ivory and the Oscars
Rediff.com7 Aug 2018Making her film debut with The Householder, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala wrote more screenplays than novels, winning two Oscars -- for A Room with a View and Howards End. She kept her distance from the film crowd, seeking refuge in the 'protective' company of her two life-long collaborators, Director James Ivory and Producer Ismail Merchant.
The Culinary Magic of Chettinad
Rediff.com21 Jul 2018'In one mansion we visited, I was told the doors in the back courtyard had to be kept closed because to have the front and back doors open at the same time would result in Chettiar wealth flowing away,' notes Rahul Jacob after a memorable visit to Karaikudi.
Why the British Museum won't return the Harihara
Rediff.com18 Jul 2018'It is vital that objects such as the Harihara -- and collections from South Asia generally -- remain here,' the British Museum tells Vaihayasi Pande Daniel.
Give us our gods back!
Rediff.com17 Jul 2018Shashi Tharoor says the British Museum should change its name to Chor Bazaar because whatever it has within its portals is the result of 200 years of theft. The museum is once again in the eye of a storm for the possession of a statue of a god Hindus, across the world, worship as the Supreme Being.
Powerful winning images from the World Press Photo Awards
Rediff.com18 Apr 2018The best in international photojournalism was recently announced by World Press Photo's Annual Photo Contest. Despite fierce competition, the jury was forced to select just a handful of images from more than 73,044 photos by 4,548 photographers across 125 different countries. This year's grand prize was awarded to Venezuelan photographer Ronaldo Schemidt, earning him the title of Press Photographer of the Year. Here are some of the winners.
See the world through a microscope
Rediff.com18 Oct 2017The winning photos of this year's Nikon annual Small World Photomicrography Competition.
Inside the miserable world of India's domestic workers
Rediff.com31 Jul 2017'We eat first, they later; we sit on chairs and they on the floor; we call them by their names and they address us by titles,' writes Tripti Lahiri, author of Maid in India.
To save Kolkata's crumbling heritage
Rediff.com8 Jun 2017Namrata Acharya finds out more about a movement aimed at preserving not only the mansions of north Calcutta and the grand colonial buildings of central Calcutta, but also the architecturally modest, yet unique, houses of south Kolkata.
US readying more sanctions against Syria
Rediff.com8 Apr 2017The United States will soon impose more sanctions on Syria in response to a chemical attack blamed on President Bashar al-Assad's regime after an "overwhelming" successful military operation, the Trump administration officials said on Saturday.
Database State to Surveillance State
Rediff.com31 Jan 2017The plan of UID/Aadhaar-based surveillance does not end with the collection of fingerprints and iris scan, it goes quite beyond it and poses a lethal threat to the idea of India, says Gopal Krishna.
The world in the era of Donald Trump
Rediff.com14 Nov 2016The US foreign and security policy establishment, says Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar, apprehends that Trump may compel them to exorcise the 'unipolar predicament', and bring foreign and security policies to reflect the desires and priorities of the American public.
Nations engaged in 'proxy wars' must end them, says Obama at UNGA
Rediff.com20 Sep 2016It was Obama's eighth and final address to the UN General Assembly as the US President
When Amitav Ghosh issues a warning, it's time to listen
Rediff.com31 Aug 2016'We know many things are going to happen.' 'People should be preparing for sea level rise, for increased cyclonic activity, for drought.' 'One reason I wrote the book is to alert people to the dangers that they face.' 'For example, Mumbai faces enormous threat.'
Does India have the solution to climate change?
Rediff.com31 Aug 2016'I would like to believe that out of this struggle (to effect climate change) will be born a generation that will be able to look upon the world with clearer eyes than those that preceded it; that they will be able to transcend the isolation in which humanity was entrapped in the time of its derangement; that they will rediscover their kinship with other beings, and that this vision, at once new and ancient, will find expression in a transformed and renewed art and literature.'
Pakistan's desperate moves in Valley
Rediff.com20 Jul 2016Separatists and their wide network must be neutralized for peace in the Valley
'I go to India and every time people go 'Ah Diee Haard''
Rediff.com28 Apr 2016Jeremy Irons considered maths 'very boring' till he read G H Hardy's A Mathematician's Apology. The actor, who plays the British mathematician in The Man Who Knew Infinity, talks numbers, acting and his legacy with Aseem Chhabra/Rediff.com.
Hamid Ansari goes to bat for secularism
Rediff.com5 Apr 2016How has the Indian State, in principle and practice, given shape to the essential ingredients of the secular principle and composite culture?
50 Years On: Who was the real Veer Savarkar?
Rediff.com26 Feb 2016'One hopes the younger generation sees Savarkar him for what he was and does not view him through a distorted prism.' 'This is the least one could do for someone who devoted his whole life to Indian freedom struggle, elimination of caste, succour to Dalits, and instilling of strategic culture in India,' says Lieutenant General Ashok Joshi (retd) and Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
Travel 2016: 20 reasons to visit Tamil Nadu
Rediff.com25 Jan 2016According to the New York Times, Tamil Nadu has a 'rich and undiscovered history'.
Uncle Sam and the Elephant
Rediff.com11 Dec 2015If Paris really meant to serve as a landmark in recognising equity in climate negotiations, it should have heralded the second phase of the Kyoto protocol. Instead we have all countries, India and China included, all signing up with voluntary commitments in what can only be seen as a race to the bottom, reports Darryl D'Monte.
Keep up the demonisation, and you'll get the government you deserve
Rediff.com4 Nov 2015'What if Modi becomes the fascist the leftists paints him as? What if he does suspend the Constitution and declares himself the ruler, with support from the army? What exactly will you do, Mr Leftie?' asks Rajeev Srinivasan.
Why Gujarat's 'GIFT' is doomed to fail
Rediff.com15 Oct 2015GIFT is a financial centre almost entirely devoid of bankers and, indeed, of people.
The man who stole India's past
Rediff.com9 Oct 2015'It was only relatively recently that Subhash Kapoor was able to secure the sources in India, Afghanistan and Cambodia, that allowed him to get the really highest level objects, and that helped propel him in recent years up the ranks.'
Review: Forever looks like everything you have seen before
Rediff.com6 Aug 2015Forever is tiring to watch, says Paloma Sharma.
The battle between secular India and Bharat
Rediff.com4 Aug 2015A left-leaning centralised socialist model has created a shortage/entitlement economy. In fact one of the reasons for India's limited progress is that post-independent India is at odds with its true nature. It is something that educated right of centre Hindus are trying to correct, says Sanjeev Nayyar.
When Comes Such Another
Rediff.com28 Jul 2015'Let us celebrate the fact of his having lived amongst us, and our having lived in his time.'
Big question from the Greece crisis: Do history and geography trump economics?
Rediff.com14 Jul 2015How did Greece, the country of Archimedes and Socrates and Plato and Pythagoras, come to such dire straits, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
Remembering Charles Correa and his 'breathing' buildings
Rediff.com27 Jun 2015India's foremost architect and town planner was renowned as much for his 'breathing' spaces as for his irascible personality
Why the Modi hope lives on
Rediff.com26 May 2015The government is following a path where it will not be irresponsible or profligate with public money but will intervene in the interest of the poor
The man fighting for Americans to learn the truth about Hinduism
Rediff.com22 Apr 2015'For years American academia has used the concerns about Hindutva in India to almost completely trash the concept of Hinduism.' 'In the American debate, Wendy Doniger's point of views perpetuated Hinduphobia.' 'Americans were willing to change... Indian intellectuals let us down badly.'
'Hinduism has been failed by seculars and the right-wing'
Rediff.com22 Apr 2015'The real danger in India right now is that identity politics is being stoked in extremely dangerous ways.' 'The narrative you get about churches in the mainstream Indian media and the narrative you get in the social media is very different.' 'Many Americans today want to appropriate Indian culture. They want yoga, but they say yoga has nothing to do with Hinduism. They want Ayurveda, but they say it's got nothing to do with Hinduism.' 'Hinduism has been failed by political constituencies in India -- seculars and the right-wing.'
A peek into the flashy lifestyles of India's richest businessmen
Rediff.com20 Feb 2015Indian billionaires do not believe in sitting on their wealth.
How Kejriwal rode the anti-Modi vote
Rediff.com10 Feb 2015'Kejriwal has taken a leaf out of Modi's campaign of 2014 and improved upon it.' 'That suit will haunt Modi till he exits politics.' 'Of all the factors that favoured Kejriwal, the biggest was the arrogance and over-confidence of the Modi-Shah led BJP.' 'What the Congress could not do in the last two decades in Gujarat, Kejriwal did it in no time in Delhi.' 'The BJP has behaved exactly like the Congress in decoding Kejriwal's politics.'
What to learn and unlearn from the US
Rediff.com26 Jan 2015Prior public consultations when making regulations is a critical feature
Pravasi Special: The forgotten souls of India
Rediff.com9 Jan 2015Can India really succeed when it leaves some of its underprivileged so far behind that they simply do not matter, asks Aseem Chhabra
Pravasi Special: 'Modi has enthused the Diaspora'
Rediff.com8 Jan 2015The Diaspora is no longer a mere remittance economy. It today claims dual loyalty and demands a say in Indian politics, says sociologist Shiv Visvanathan