Colonel Raja Chari Is Ready for Space

On Sunday morning Eastern US time, four astronauts will zoom into space on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida.Commanding the spaceflight is Raja Chari, a United......

A miracle called Chumki

'Would Chumki ever get to lead a normal life? How could we reinstate her in a family? Questions like these haunted me.' Indrani Roy/Rediff.com discovers how a young child, cruelly handicapped at......

The Silver Generation: India's elderly

When Hiren Mehta started managing a day care program for seniors in Mumbai, he had certain ideas about what older Indians wanted. "We used to have spiritual discourses and old movies here......

Bollywood's 3 Heroine Stories

Photograph: Kind courtesy Priyanka Chopra/Instagram There's no dearth of three hero movies in Bollywood where the role of the leading woman is limited to a love interest. Finally though, there's......

12 Films by Rajinikanth: The Actor, Not Superstar

If you'd like to know more about Rajini the actor, Saisuresh Sivaswamy offers a wide selection. Everybody knows Rajinikanth's fabled rise from the bottom of the rung to superstardom. And even if......

Review: Malgudi Days fails to convey anything

Paresh C Palicha wonders why Malgudi Days has so many subplots when the main idea itself was good enough for a film. The title of the film is very misleading as it has no connection with the......

Santosh Sivan to direct spooky film

Star art director Sabu Cyril was to direct Ananthabhadram last year. The film was based on a novel that won last year's Malayala Manorama weekly award. Now, Sabu has stepped down, and......