The specter of how the Munambam issue was exploited during the November by-elections is proof of the price Kerala is paying for its emergent politics.Controversies become the stuff of slow-burn and......
After steering the Rediff mothership for close to 29 years, Ajit Balakrishnan, founder, chairman and CEO, did what few businessmen in this country do -- R-E-T-I-R-E. On August 2, 2024, we were......
'...that has plants and flowers of all colours and hues in it.''Do you think a garden with just one plant or one type of flower will be appealing?''No. It will look drab, uninteresting and......
Eight eminent personalities, including former Supreme Court judge J Chelameswar and ex-Chief Election Commissioner S Y Quraishi, have appealed to people to "introspect and audit" the working of the......
Any damage to fuel bundles could have resulted in thousands of times more severe radiation leakage from the reactor, and some of it could have eventually escaped into the public domain, say......
Even after this sale, the founder group will continue to have a substantial shareholding in the company. Two of the billionaire co-founders of software major Infosys, S Gopalakrishnan and S D......
‘When a soldier becomes a king, he better be a king. He should now just forget the past and move beyond continuity. He should catch the potential of India’s moment and play a......
India has no idiosyncratic innovation ecosystem, distinctively its own. Our VCs will not rush to fund brilliant ideas, says R Gopalakrishnan. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com The two ends......
Infosys on Thursday appointed Vishal Sikka, a former SAP board member, as CEO and Managing Director of the company. He will be the first outsider to lead India's second largest software......
B Ramalinga Raju, the prime accused in the Satyam multi-crore accounting scam, is likely to surrender before a local court on November 10, the deadline set for him by the Supreme Court, after it......
There's a peevish quality to all the films on this list, which is fitting, because peevishness is the defining characteristic of most Malayalis. These films, even at their saddest, darkest and......
'That would once and for all teach all the film-makers of this country a fitting lesson!' *IMAGE: 'The idea of censoring films was instituted by the British our colonial masters who never trusted......
Nobody expected Bharath -- chosen more for his dancing skills than acting talent for Shankar's film Boys -- to get noticed. But he got Jayaraj's 4 The People, a Malayalam blockbuster and a big......
Madhuri Dixit may have said goodbye to Bollywood, but the industry refuses to forget her. On her birthday, Indra Kumar (who directed her in Dil, Beta and Raja), and Akbar Khan (her first co-star in......
Rajeev Srinivasan on one of the best film festivals in India. Perhaps the International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK) has an outsize reputation because of the dedicated army of cineastes and......