NCERT axes caste-based discrimination in Class 6 books

India had a prime meridian of its own much ahead of the Greenwich meridian and it was called "madhya rekha", which passed through the city of Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh, according to a new Class-6......

'Vedas do not refer to anything called Hinduism'

'They were certainly not practising Hinduism in the Harappan culture (which includes Mohenjo Daro and other sites).''There was no notion of Hinduism then.' If you want to understand Indian history......

How can you change history, asks Nitish on Shah remark

The Bharatiya Janata Party's insistence that history be rewritten with more emphasis on Hindu kings who resisted Muslim invasion than on the invaders themselves has received a thumbs down from......

Nitish aide calls K'taka minister 'deshdrohi' for saffron flag remark

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's key political aide Upendra Kushwaha, who has been rankling the ally Bharatiya Janata Party over the alleged denigration of Emperor Asoka, on Friday found fresh......

Modi's dream team to transform Indian economy

India’s new policy commission has received a makeover and a dream team has been formed to head the Think Tank, NITI Aayog. Arvind Panagariya, a free-market economist will be first Vice......

Sony PlayStation may sell 45% more this year

Sony Computer Entertainment is likely to sell 350,000 units of PlayStation in India by the end of 2010, 45 per cent more than last year. In the previous year, it had sold 240,000 units. "Since......

It's Kautilya 4.0 in Union Budget speech

Kautilya, widely known as pioneer of economics in India and author of Artha Shastra (rules of economics), was invoked for the fourth time in the country's annual Union Budget speech on Friday,......

Budget speech: Mix of wit, humour, words of wisdom

Quoting medieval India's political thinker Kautilya as well as Mahatma Gandhi, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Monday punctuated his Budget speech with words of wisdom, wit and humour.......

BEAUTIFUL MEMORIES of Satyajit Ray

Satyajit Ray would have been a hundred years old on May 2.To mark the legendary film-maker's birth centenary, Rediff.com brings you a treasure trove of features from our archives. A lot has been......

Pather Panchali, the film that made history

August 26, 1955. 65 years ago, Pather Panchali was released.Aseem Chhabra salutes the Masterpiece. IMAGE: Harihar (Kanu Banerjee) returns to his village and ancestral home after having been away......

Meet the STARS of Article 15

India's caste system rears its ugly presence in Anubhav Sinha's well-received Article 15. Apart from its rousing commentary on the sickening degree of social hierarchy, following the brutal rape......

Remembering Pather Panchali with Satyajit Ray

Satyajit Ray would have been 97 today, May 2.Soumendu Roy, who worked with the legendary director for many years, looks back on the Genius that was Manikda, as the Master was known to family,......