What I Saw When The Kashmiri Pandits Fled in 1990

Threats were often communicated to Pandit homes through notes tied to stones chucked through a window, or a notice pasted on a wall.Those sometimes came from neighbours eyeing that Pandit family's......

Elections Should Have Been Held In March

Making citizens queue to vote just when the disease is declining, but is still in the air, could just cause a fresh spurt.The logic for this scheduling is inexplicable, especially since the entire......

Make no mistake, we're heading into war

The days of a thousand cuts are over.These mini wars will remain under the threshold of undeniable war, but will escalate closer to that threshold when their big brother pushes in.Chinese......

Why the Army Needs the IAF!

In the early part of the Kargil operations, the army opted to more or less go it alone, sacrificing large numbers of men and officers in almost superhuman struggles against an enemy on higher......

Bandhe Barthaale is boring

Devadas, who has directed the Kannada film Bandhe Barthaale, is one director who has exposed his ignorance of any understanding of the visual medium. That should come as a surprise as Devadas has......

Venkata In Sankata: Worth a watch

With his new Kannada film Venkata In Sankata, Ramesh Arvind proves once again that he is an actor and a director par excellence. The film is a perfect entertainer for the family audience.Ramesh has......

Ramesh Arvind's new Kannada film

Director Ramesh Aravind is ready with his fourth Kannada film, Venkata in Sankata (Venkata in Trouble) which sees him in the lead role as well. He plays a traffic cop beset with many problems.......

Anandabhairavi is worth a watch

Director Jayaraj's latest venture Anandabhairavi stars Sai Kumar (who won the Best Actor runner-up prize at the Kerala State Awardsfor this film) and Master Devdas. Vasudevan Panikar (Sai Kumar)......

Ex-India footballer battling blood cancer, vows to return stronger

Former Indian forward Surojit Bose, an important member of Mahindra United's National Football League win in 2005-06, is battling stage one blood cancer and is currently being treated at the All......

Indian footballers come to rescue of poor affected by COVID-19

IMAGE: Pritam Kotal, mid-fielder Pronay Halder and defender Prabir Das have pooled in around Rs 4 lakh to help the needy in West Bengal. Photograph: Pritam Kotal/Twitter Quite like its......

With eyes on ISL's domestic draft, Zico to arrive in Goa on Monday

FC Goa coach Zico. Photograph: NV Reuben/Rediff.com FC Goa's chief coach Zico will arrive in the state on July 6 to take stock of all new signings before deciding on the players to be picked from......

ISL: NorthEast United split points with Chennaiyin FC

Brazilian striker Elano Blumer and Spaniard Koke scored two superb goals for their respective sides as Chennaiyin FC and NorthEast United played out a high-octane 2-2 draw in the Indian Super......

Clinical Chennayin crush Mumbai to maintain top spot

Chennaiyin FC produced a clinical performance and pumped in goals in the second half to thrash Mumbai City FC 3-0 to consolidate their position at the top of the table in Indian Super League at the......