'I know from my two brothers and many cousins and friends how difficult it is to be an Indian male,' novelist Samina Ali tells Arthur J Pais.
'Sonia Gandhi has closed her mind as far as Ajit Jogi is concerned,' says rebel Congress leader Vidya Charan Shukla.
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External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee, who is also managing the finance ministry, presented the Interim Budget for 2009-10 in Parliament on Monday. Following is the text of the entire Budget Speech:
Rashesh Shah is not your typical Gujarati businessman. He was among the first in his family to study in an English-medium school. He didn't just step into his father's business -- manufacturing and selling school exercise notebooks -- as all good conservative Gujarati boys tend to. He went on to study higher and higher (he followed a BSc in statistics with a one-year diploma from the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, and then a two-year MBA from IIM, Ahmedabad.
The invaders killed us but never portrayed Hindus as terrorists. This secular dispensation is celebrating Diwali with that label gifted to Hindus. It will not remain unanswered. Hindus as a mainline faith never never never believed in any kind of cowardice that's the hallmark of terrorism we see today, says Tarun Vijay
Security analsyst abd rediff columnist B Raman on why a new ISI chief was anointed in Pakistan.
An excerpt from lyricist Sameer's biography, A Way With Words.
It was one of the most tantalising days in Indian Parliament. Parties debated for and against the nuclear deal. MPs crossed swords, armed with allegations and statistics. As the nation kept glued to the happenings, rediff.com's Prem Panicker gave its readers a blow-by-blow account of what happened. Here is the transcript:
Nowhere is the need for infrastructure more evident than in India 's cities.
Valmiki knew Ram to be a human, a noble man, the best of his era and in his time wrote the Ramayana as both were contemporary. He has also shown Ram to possess human traits and emotions, just like any ordinary person. We, in our blind faith, have accentuated the question marks on the historicity of Ram and Ramayana by treating Ramayana like a fable and depicting its noble characters as birds and animals.
The director of Khoya Khoya Chand, Sudhir Mishra had a lively time chatting with his fans.
Ram Kapoor gets candid about his TV roles.
Professional CEOs are taking home fat cheques and humungous stock options the size of small company turnovers
December, January will be the best season to visit Manali, says Amal Purandare, Arzoo.com honcho.
BusinessWeek's first-ever ranking of 25 client-pleasing brands included JetBlue, until it got stuck on the runway.
'Rahul Dravid let us down both in the batting front and captaincy.'
'The Vajpayee government is bringing ignominy and shame upon itself by honouring a fanatical leader like Mr Sharon.'
Readers wish one of India's bowling greats, Bhagwat Chandrasekhar, on his 60th brithday.
'We need to work on the team spirit rather than focusing on individuals,' says Sudhir Patel.
Rediff.com readers wish the Indian coach on his 49th birthday.
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