'It was the Mughals who first established standard units of measurement and maintained offices of meticulous record keepers and auditors, departing from the more haphazard methods of earlier......
'Modi is the first BJP leader to try to include Dalits in its fold.''But the rank and file of his party is backward and want to bash up Muslims and Dalits whenever they have a chance.' In Raisina......
'None other but the invincible chariot led by Modi and Shah could have taken up the challenge and won,' says Tarun Vijay. IMAGE: Bharatiya Janata Party President Amit A Shah at a rally in Tripura,......
Syed Firdaus Ashraf on the futility of the 'Who is a Hindu?' debate. Some people are young and immature, and grow up later in life. Some people refuse to grow up -- and I fall in this category I......
'What we are today witnessing is the final act of the Pakistani army trying to retain its turf,' argues Colonel Anil A Athale (retd). It is surprising that major events in our neighbourhood......
The first name suggests Germanic origins but no, research shows he's British. "Or 'Britisher' as Indians like to say. I was born in Derby in the West Midlands. That's Derby with an 'e', not 'a',"......
More than 10 per cent of Hindustan Unilever's (HUL) managers today work for Unilever in various countries. A fact that led Chairman Harish Manwani to say at the company's AGM a couple of weeks back......
Manmohan Singh faced stiff competition in Singapore. No, not at the East Asia Summit or in meetings with the Asean. But the rival attractions of two imaginative exhibitions on India's past and an......
Listen to the radio, and you will hear the songs you know. For sales executive Rohit Shetty, this 2005 Robbie Williams song conjures up an all-too familiar image of FM radio in India."All the......
The Archies is an evergreen thought passed on from generation to generation. But Sukanya Verma wishes it had some of the comic's tee-hee humour and hyuk hyuk too. Long before there was cable TV,......
As the curtain come down on 2022, Roshmila Bhattacharya flashbacks to some of the year's news-makers and events. Part 1: A for Alia Bhatt Part 2: Jacqueline's Con Call K: KHAN-ZANA, TODAY &......
'This has been both challenging and inspiring for me.'Videos: Afsar Dayatar/Rediff.com. Reportage: Mohnish Singh. Photograph: Kind courtesy Esha Deol/Instagram "After this series, and in times to......
Are you ready for Mowgli? It was a rare sight to see two centres of film-making -- Hollywood and Bollywood -- share the same stage to talk about Netflix's Mowgli: The Legend of the Jungle, Andy......
The contrast in the fates of Arthur Conan Doyle's and Satyajit Ray's super sleuths is a study in despair, says Sumit Bhattacharya.Sherlock Holmes is an Internet phenomenon-- thanks to a blog Dr......
Long before he became an international diplomat, a sparkling writer and a charismatic politician, Shashi Tharoor fell in love with cricket. In this special feature, Exclusive! to Rediff.com,......