'If someone is consistently horrible to you, for me, I would ask myself, what am I doing?' 'Why am I continuously putting myself as a target for this?'

Had he not been a student, admirer and follower of Amartya Sen, T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan feels it might have been a Padma Bhushan.

The result was the largest margin of victory in either the men's or women's World Cup.

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A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Sunday

A hamper of fresh Darjeeling tea takes the author back to warm days and cold nights in this colonial town.

The world's most popular author took questions from you, our dear readers.

The Hundred-Foot Journey treats its Indian characters with respect, discovers Aseem Chhabra/Rediff.com

Om Puri, notes Arthur J Pais/Rediff.com, has given one of the most endearing performances of his career in producers Steven Spielberg and Oprah Winfrey and director Lasse Hallstrom's new film, The Hundred-Foot Journey

Andy Roddick's transition from the tennis court to the rocking chair was delayed when the former world number one reached the third round of the US Open.

The director will launch his film in March.

The dispersion of global economic power augurs well for the role of ideas in policy-making.

In conversation with rediff.com, Shobhaa De discusses her soon-to-be released book S's Secret, a fictional work targeting Young India.

Thank the French for the phrase. 'Femme Fatale' is a direct translation of 'deadly woman', but only in Francaise does it sound so much more intoxicating, like a black widow spider luring in its prey.

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Some 80 years ago the mountaineer George Leigh Mallory was asked why he was so obsessed with climbing Mount Everest. (He was destined to die making a last attempt.) In words that have become famous, Mallory replied, "Because it is there."