'The Indian government is better prepared this time and has reached out to all contenders and not putting all eggs in one basket.' IMAGE: A woman walks past graffiti on a wall in Colombo,......
Indications are that the DMK combine will win more seats than the AIADMK and BJP, but is facing a tough fight in about half a dozen from the rest, predicts N Sathiya Moorthy of the electoral......
Fifty years ago today, December 25, 1972, Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, one of the titans of India's freedom struggle, passed into the ages. Kalki Krishnamurthy, who penned the Tamil classic......
The Taliban has its backers, notably Pakistan and China.Their purpose is to have a monstrous entity near India's northern borders to keep democratic, secular India off-guard, observes Amulya......
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday unveiled its manifesto for the West Bengal elections, promising to build a 'Sonar Bangla' by providing employment, strengthening social security......
The elements are all aligned to make India a global powerhouse, says IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde. Good afternoon -- Namaste! Dear faculty members, students, and distinguished guests,......
"Sudhu bigha dui, chilo mor bhui, aar sab-i geche rine, Babu balilen, "Bujhecho Upen, e jami loibo kine."(After losing everything in debt, I had only two bighas of land left. But the Babu said,......
Pranay Shah runs a management consulting practice -- Praxis International Consulting Services -- in Pune. It focusses on strategy, planning and venture capital. He is B Tech graduate from IIT......
At the Sotheby's New York auction on September 24 this year, stock market consultant Yogesh Jain forked out a cool $37,000 to purchase Francis Newton Souza's "The Paraclete", a 93x72 cm oil on......
1999 in Hindi movies marked the end of a vibrant young decade and a gentle promise of electrifying new things to come in the new millennium. Where madcap masala still reigned supreme, morally......
'There's this one scene in Gulmohar that belongs to Manojji and everyone was excited for him.''The evening before we were to shoot it, everyone, from Sharmilaji to the junior most actor, wished him......
Varsha Bhosle salutes that effervescent icon of Indian cinema, Dev Anand, who would have turned 99 today, September 26. IMAGE: Dev Anand. This feature was first posted on Rediff.com on April 4,......
Aseem Chhabra lists his favourite Indian films of 2021. Aseem's Best International Films of 2021 In the second year of the pandemic when movie theatres remained closed for an extended period of......
'He always seemed one of us, part of the great aspiring middle class -- his values, his simplicity, even the intellectual snobbery which he could barely hide,' observes Mousumi Sengupta.......
Full text of VVS Laxman's Pataudi Memorial Lecture in Kolkata. VVS Laxman delivers the third annual Pataudi Memorial lecture, at the Taj Bengal Hotel in Kolkata. Photograph: BCCI Good evening......