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'India Has Changed So Much'
Rediff.com20 Jul 2024'I don't feel like going back to India, to the old Delhi that I grew up in. Because the place doesn't exist anymore.'
How WCT20 Can Help Boost Trade
Rediff.com17 Jun 2024Global consumer preferences can be influenced through music, films, literature, yoga and sports because they create interest and a sense of familiarity that can help our businesses to access foreign markets, suggests T N C Rajagopalan.
Top 1% Indians Earn 23% Of Income
Rediff.com1 Apr 2024Wealth, which can broadly be a measure of assets held as opposed to income earned, is unequally distributed.
'Goa Inquisition was most merciless and cruel'
Rediff.com9 Feb 2024'It was a machinery of death. A large number of Hindus were first converted and then persecuted from 1560 all the way to 1812!' says novelist Richard Zimler.
NewsClick editor Prabir Purkayastha arrested, office sealed
Rediff.com4 Oct 2023The Delhi police on Tuesday arrested two persons including NewsClick founder Prabir Purkayastha in connection with a probe in the portal's foreign funding, officials said.
200 Delhi police personnel attended 2 am meeting before NewsClick raids
Rediff.com3 Oct 2023Apart from senior officials, the mobile handset of junior officials were kept at the station, to hide any leaked information.
Priyanka Or Kareena: Who Will You Watch?
Rediff.com22 Sep 2023Kareena in a Kalimpong murder mystery, Priyanka in a Hollywood rom-com, a South Korean style western and lots, lots more on OTT this week.
Govt to bring back 150 Indian artefacts from US in next 6 months
Rediff.com9 Jul 2023Mohan said bilaterally also, India is working with countries like the United States.
'Partition is a massive part of our history'
Rediff.com24 Mar 2023'Partition was a two-sided story in a very big way.' 'We've oversimplified it, blamed the British, thought of ourselves only as victims.' 'We've been both victims and perpetrators.'
Foreign Media: Enemy Of India?
Rediff.com6 Mar 2023Much of the the-foreign-media-is-biased hysteria that we see on social media these days is provoked by the bad press the regime is getting in the West, points out Vir Sanghvi.
Drunk flyer booked for peeing on passenger on board American Airlines
Rediff.com5 Mar 2023A passenger on a New York-New Delhi American Airlines flight allegedly urinated on a fellow male passenger in a drunken state, sources said on Sunday.
Shiv Shastri Balboa Review: What A Pleasant Surprise!
Rediff.com10 Feb 2023Shiv Shastri Balboa is a sweet dramedy that makes a case for letting seniors live with dignity, observes Deepa Gahlot.
The Crown Season 5 Review
Rediff.com9 Nov 2022The new season of The Crown is a bit of a dreary watch, observes Deepa Gehlot.
Were The Chola Kings Hindus Or Not?
Rediff.com11 Oct 2022The aftermath of Mani Ratnam's Ponniyin Selvan has led to an argument that there was no religion as Hinduism in Chola times.
Instead, there was only Saivism, Vaishnavism, etc, and that the Cholas were Saivites, and hence not Hindus, observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
'Those who politicise...': Jaishankar's jibe at Pak, China
Rediff.com25 Sep 2022In his address to the high-level UN General Assembly session, Jaishankar said those who politicise the UNSC 1267 Sanctions regime, sometimes even to the extent of defending proclaimed terrorists, do so at their own peril.
Why China Is Worried About Hong Kong
Rediff.com7 Apr 2022'Although Hong Kong weathered many a storm and displayed a remarkable resilience to bounce back, the developments in the territory have raised question marks with regard to its future stability and prosperity.' A revealing excerpt from Rup Narayan Das's Hong Kong Conundrum: Pangs of Transition.
Kitab Khana: One Of The World's Top Bookstores
Rediff.com23 Dec 2021Rajesh Karkera/Rediff.com heads to south Mumbai to discover why Kitab Khana is considered one of the best bookshops in the world.
'Humans have never learned from history'
Rediff.com17 Dec 2021'We need to retell this history from many different perspectives.'
Pakistan Can't Use Taliban to Threaten India
Rediff.com3 Sep 2021India has much paranoia in India about a new 'Terroristan' coming up between Pakistan and a Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. Pakistan has zero ability economically, diplomatically, geostrategically or militarily to create one. If they try, it will be great for India as they will destroy themselves yet again, asserts Shekhar Gupta.
Mumbai all set for its BIGGEST infra transformation
Rediff.com5 Aug 2021Mumbai, India's financial capital, is set for a mega transformation with a massive patch of land opening up for redevelopment; a new metro railway ready to start services by the year-end; and the country's oldest railway station, the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, going for modernisation with private sector participation. Work on Mumbai's second airport will start from next month, while construction of the sea link connecting central Mumbai to Navi Mumbai has already moved into a fast lane despite Covid-induced lockdowns. Also, a coastal road project, connecting Nariman Point to Worli, is under way and will help decongest the city to quite an extent. Of all these mega infrastructure projects, the one that has a huge potential to change the city's skyline is the Eastern Waterfront project - to be built on the Mumbai Port Trust (MbPT) land.
Why deprive same sex couples of their legal rights?
Rediff.com2 Feb 2021When the highest court gave a decision on the Navtej Singh Johar case, it held that LGBT citizens have a right to not be discriminated against on the basis of their sexual orientation. It was keeping this in mind that this same sex couple approached the Delhi high court.
The Incomparable Ved Mehta
Rediff.com11 Jan 2021On a visit to India in 2013, writer Ved Mehta -- who passed into the ages on Sunday January 10, 2021 - gave Rediff.com's Vaihayasi Pande Daniel a rare glimpse into his state of mind and what he thinks of the changes he encounters in his motherland.
Hong Kong media tycoon arrested under national security law
Rediff.com10 Aug 2020The New York Times reported that Lai's company Next Digital publishes Apple Daily, a fiercely pro-democracy newspaper that regularly takes on the Hong Kong government and the Chinese leadership.
Rajapaksa & Bros are back with a bang!
Rediff.com7 Aug 2020President Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Rajapaksa will transform Sri Lanka's political landscape after Thursday's electoral triumph, predicts N Sathiya Moorthy, veteran Colombo watcher.
Was Babri Masjid demolition justified?
Rediff.com4 Aug 2020'The outrage that followed the destruction of the Babri Masjid was an inability to see the event for what it was: The rectification of a grave historical wrong, the restitution of a hurt of a people and the countering of moral injustice,' argues Vivek Gumaste.
Mumbai escapes unhurt as Nisarga batters nearby areas
Rediff.com3 Jun 2020A 58-year-old man died after a power transformer fell on him in Raigad district. 2 people died and 3 were injured in two separate cyclone-related incidents in Pune.
A better world after Covid?
Rediff.com13 May 2020It is time to shrug off the ideological shackles about the way we work, play and live, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
'Bury COVID-19 victims away from residential areas'
Rediff.com4 May 2020'I am more worried about the rainy season from June.' 'If you don't bury the COVID-19 dead properly, then rainwater will seep into the dead bodies and it will come to our locality where I fear more than 2,000 people will be affected.'
Alice doesn't live in indie cinema anymore
Rediff.com24 Apr 2020With Hindi Medium and Angrezi Medium, the "English-medium" actor of independent movies shows she can easily fit into mainstream Hindi movies too.
What the economy needs: Painful medium-term steps
Rediff.com4 Mar 2020''Even without major reforms, with a business as usual scenario, and with current inflation trends, we should be clocking around 11 to 12 per cent nominal growth.' 'That is not happening and is a source of worry,' Rathin Roy tells Arup Roychoudhury.
'Nehru didn't impose secularism'
Rediff.com27 Feb 2020'His secularism merely declared the equality of all religions in India under fundamental rights.'
Why US is bullying Sri Lanka
Rediff.com21 Feb 2020'Clearly, Washington has all but given up hope following US Acting Assistant Secretary of State Alice Wells's stormy visit to Colombo last month where she read the riot act to Sri Lankan leaders to sign the pending status of forces agreement allowing American troops to use Sri Lanka as a hub for operations in the Indian Ocean,' points out Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
The American who caught Gandhiji's killer
Rediff.com30 Jan 2020In the shock after Nathuram Godse murdered Mahatma Gandhi that January evening 72 years ago today, a young American diplomat rushed to capture the assassin. Vaihayasi Pande Daniel traces the memorable life of Herbert Reiner, who History has sadly relegated to a footnote.
'Carrot-and-stick economic model not workable in all countries'
Rediff.com28 Oct 2019Economist Deepak Nayyar says economic openness, while necessary, is not sufficient, and is conducive to development only when combined with industrial policy.
BJP's political Brahmastras
Rediff.com24 Oct 2019The term, 'pro-Pakistani', is helpful for the BJP to depict its opponents as anti-nationals while the sedition law is handy for locking up or harassing the government's critics, points out Amulya Ganguli.
When Venezuela's star stopped shining
Rediff.com18 Oct 2019Devastation struck Venezuela when oil prices started collapsing in 1982, following a global oil glut. The country's economy contracted overnight.
The most stunning scenes from nature
Rediff.com17 Oct 2019Wheeling round, a look of utter shock on its face, a marmot jumps in fright after a young fox sneaks up behind it. The split-second encounter between prey and predator -- called the Moment -- has won the man who captured it the title of Wildlife Photographer of the Year. He was chosen from a longlist of various category winners, all of whom managed to record the oddities, rivalries and beauty of the natural world. Scroll down for some of the winners.
What did Modi's US visit achieve?
Rediff.com1 Oct 2019'No amount of digression can hide deflect the fact that the PM's visit was badly conceived, planned and executed,' argues Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
How to be a bigot
Rediff.com11 May 2019'In this season of inspired mean-spirited campaigning, it still seemed remarkable that we are more likely to learn civics lessons from school children than our leaders,' says Rahul Jacob.
10 global terrorists in Pakistan working against India
Rediff.com3 May 2019Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com presents the names of 10 global terrorists who, according to United Nations Security Council, are operating against India from Pakistan.