Rediff.com beings you some of Sitar maestro Pt Ravi Shankar's rare photographs from our archives.

With old age leaving its imprint on his health, legendary musician Pandit Ravi Shankar's sitar was growing smaller in size and lighter in weight.

Media professional and traveller Lakshmi Sharath writes about her tryst with Torun, the city of gingerbread men.

Box office report of Adam Sandler's Hotel Transylvania.

The challenge is to go out and do something different; not one more 'application' to download, not one more 'Angry Birds', a YouTube sensation. Something is changing yet again in the innovation hub that is still the Silicon Valley. B S Prakash on whether it is reinventing itself perpetually?

Rediff reader Mridula Dwivedi is an academician from Gurgaon who blogs at Travel Tales from India. She ttrekked up to Everest Base Camp in May 2012 and sent us these amazing pictures.

The main concern of the film is its leading men and their blundering equation.

Russia has produced quite a long list of famous dancers, so it seemed quite fitting that the country organised a 'tank ballet' at a recently-held arms expo, choreographed by none other than the legendary Bolshoy Theatre.

Indian Idol 6 gets ready to roll on June 1.

The actress celebrates her 100th birthday today.

Here's a look at the US box office.

Agneepath is less of a remake, more of a tribute, writes Sukanya Verma

The film isn an exquisite and gorgeous motion picture.

Shaikh Ayaz had the opportunity to watch the late actor/director closely. He fondly remembers.

Actor Mohnish Behl looks back at the time he shot with his mother Nutan's co-star Dev Anand.

'Every slide in the power point presentation had a graph with years like 2006, 2008, 2010 on the X axis... Most lines seemed to lie inert horizontally and many seemed to dip despondently, except the red line for China which seemed to rise triumphantly in each slide...' B S Prakash attends the World Economic Forum's Latin American version.

Here's a collection of the ghazal king's finest songs.

Here's a collection of the ghazal king's finest songs.

Here's what your favourite celebrities are tweeting.

Here's what your favourite celebrities are tweeting.

The noted singer will turn 86 on September 8.

Subhash Ghai pays a tribute to Shammi Kapoor.

Photographer MS Gopal shot these images of India's economic powerhouse and shared them with us!

The film goes far beyond the confines of just being a cartoon, and attains a much higher epic status.

GetAhead reader Sabiha Ghiasi shares her fascinating trip to Turkey, the Gateway between Europe and Asia.

Here's what your favourite celebrities are tweeting.

Excerpts from Madhubala's first ever biography.

Before it plans to show light to others, Aligarh Muslim University has to put its own house in order and be what it always was -- a centre of excellence where tradition and modernity do not collide but complement each other, says old student Arfa Khanum Sherwani.

Videos from around the World Cup.

The film will soon get a new release.

Reader Ranjan Jyoti met legendary England opener Geoffrey Boycott at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi on Sunday.

He is the lone face of Indian sports in a high-profile gathering of international stars at the Laureus World Sports Awards and football skipper Bhaichung Bhutia on Monday said it is the ultimate honour to be in a crowd that features the likes of the legendary Sir Bobby Charlton, Boris Becker and Patrick Vieira.

A child prodigy, Raghunathan's tryst with music started when she was a toddler; her mother, a music teacher, introduced her to it.

Rajeev Srinivasan on one of the best film festivals in India.

Kapil Sharma, who plays a closet gay in Dunno Y... Na Jaane Kyun tells us why.

Blue Velvet might just be the director's next, if he manages to lock the script.

Choreographed by Vaibhavi Merchant, the musical will travel to the US and Canada.

Reader Perdy Mohindru from Auckland, New Zealand, sent us this article and picture of Shreya Ghoshal's concert in New Zealand recently.

Amit Shah's fall has dented his boss Narendra Modi's eligibility to some day lead non-Congress centrist parties at the Centre. Here lies the real win for the Congress, as this will play as an advantage for its future leadership, says Sheela Bhatt.

Raavan's deadliest sin isn't in the clumsy dialogue, hammy acting or lame, oversimplified adaptation but in that it fails to engage us.