Vivan Sundaram, a pioneering multidisciplinary artist who often used his work, melding sculptures, photographs, videos and paintings, to reflect contemporary issues of the day, died in New Delhi on......
In a corner of Kolkata lived a man who made Latin American music cool before urban India became hip to salsa.Sumit Bhattacharya remembers Monojit Datta, ace percussionist, guru and unknown legend.......
Rohini Mohan has bagged the Shakti Bhatt First Book prize 2015 for her book, The Seasons of Trouble. “The shortlist this year was diverse and spectacular, but we unanimously agreed to award......
Pakistani writer Bilal Tanweer, who was on Tuesday conferred the 2014 Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize for his novel The Scatter Here Is Too Great, was congratulated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.......
'Namaste! Mein Hindi thoda thoda bolta hun' ( Greetings to all of you. I speak a little bit of Hindi).' United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon instantly won the hearts of the 900-odd members......
'A heavy tanker takes time to move, but when it starts rolling, it's difficult to stop it,' Indian Hotels CEO Puneet Chhatwal tells Shyamal Majumdar.Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com Puneet......
There was a time when students keen to pick up at least one foreign language headed to either Alliance Francaise to learn French or the Max Mueller Bhavan for German. Today, students and......
'He used to come to the cinema hall like he was visiting a temple for worship.' Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com A week before the well-respected film critic Rashid Irani passed away,......