'I had to do something for my nation'

'The navy has evolved every aspect of our lives. Our characters are chiselled out.' Vipin Vijayan/Rediff.com speaks to cadets passing out of the Indian Naval Academy. Their proud parents in......

'Dancing breathes new life into me every day'

'My age? It keeps changing every year. I can't remember it. I don't like ageing at all,' the legendary dancer Mrinalini Sarabhai, who passed into the ages on Thursday, told Jasmine Shah Verma in......

Padma Vibhushan for Amrita Pritam, Narlikar

Well-known Punjabi litterateur Amrita Pritam, noted astronomer Jayant Vishnu Narlikar and former Chief Justice of India M N Venkatachalliah have been selected for the Padma Vibhushan, the second......

Padmini, the Eternal Star

Padmini would have liked to die on a dazzling movie set, in the glare of glittering lights, with her at the centre as the leading star. She came close to it when she died. After many years in the......