Leo Varadkar, The PM Who Likes Jalebis

'When my father travelled 5,000 miles to build a new home in Ireland, I doubt he ever dreamed that his son would one day grow up to become its leader.' Vaihayasi Pande Daniel/Rediff.com profiles Dr......

'History is littered with religious conflict'

'The othering of religious groups inevitably leads to violence.''It is sadly a narrative that has echoed through the centuries since man first discovered God.' IMAGE: The Se Cathedral at Old Goa,......

US can declare 'independence' from China with India's help: Vivek Ramaswamy

A stronger relationship with India would help the US declare its "independence" from China, Indian-American Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy believes and has called for stronger......

HC directs RSS weekly to remove article on Christian school principal

The Delhi high court has directed Organiser magazine to remove from its website an "offending" and prima facie "defamatory" article with allegations of sexual intimacy and exploitation of nuns and......

Bollywood's Favourite Shaadi Destination

Will Kiara Advani and Sidharth Malhotra wed on February 6 in Rajasthan? Well, the grapevine certainly believes that. The couple have reportedly been dating for a while now, and rumours state their......

The Very Best Of Shabana Azmi

Filmmaker Sai Paranjpye shares an amusing anecdote of Shabana Azmi's perfection in her memoir, A Patchwork Quilt: A Collage of My Creative Life. While filming Sparsh, the actress wished to know if......

Do you know these HIDDEN MEANINGS in movies?

Looking back on my brief life as a film critic, I can see clearly the key role that subtexts and their uncovering had played in my getting started on this path. It was, over those many casual......

AMAZING FILMS, coming up!

Aseem Chhabra picks Indian and other South Asian gems at the Toronto International Film Festival. Priyanka Chopra was last seen in a Hindi film in 2016. In the three-and-a-half years since then,......

The death of the yellow jersey

'Living in Brazil, I had internalised the football mythology of that country, the way I had learnt Mahabharata stories in my childhood.' 'The tragedy at the Maracana stadium in 1950, when a......