'Lok Sabha is becoming less and less important for voters'

'...vis-a-vis state or local elections,' Prannoy Roy and Dorab Sopariwala tell Uttaran Das Gupta. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com On the results night in 1977, Prannoy Roy and a few of his......

'No one walked the way Vinod Khanna did'

'No one had the presence he had in a crowded room. No one could lighten up the surroundings he was in, like him. No one...' Amitabh Bachchan remembers his old friend Vinod Khanna. IMAGE: Amitabh......

Review: The Iron Lady works because of Meryl Streep

The Iron Lady is much too lethargic to create the complexity of Margaret Thatcher's supremacy or match the aura of Meryl Streep's ambitions, writes Sukanya Verma. It was in a Linda Goodman book......

Movies: Best of the week

October 10, 2005FEATURESKarma ConfessionSushmita's 'very Hollywood' film. Mein Meri Patni is cuteBig B to play Rajnikant?Who's the most overrated actor?Santosh Sivan on NavarasaAmisha with Salma......

Review: Dil Kabaddi

Delving deep into the man-woman science, with a generous scoop (actually, make that a double), of sex thrown in, has famously been high on the brilliantly whimsical Woody Allen's candid-speaking......

Naomi Osaka's candid confessions post-defeats

Photograph: Kind Courtesy Naomi Osaka/Instagram Naomi Osaka may have lost three straight matches following her successful return from maternity break, but the former world number one said ahead of......

'It's a dream come true to bowl to Sachin, Rahul'

If his exciting talent and the rich encomiums showered on him by the likes of Wasim Akram and Sourav Ganguly are any indication, then India may have unearthed a potentially world-class fast bowler......