He was a formidable musician but seemed utterly human, a Peter Pan who wore his genius with deceptive lightness. Sandip Roy remembers Ustad Zakir Hussain. IMAGE: Ustad Zakir Hussain at one of his......
'There are 7,000 guns which are in the hands of the armed militia of the Kuki and Meitei communities.' IMAGE: The bodies of Kuki militants, who were killed in an encounter with the Central Reserve......
Photograph: Kind courtesy The Great Elephant Migration A huge herd of elephants -- 100 of them -- are arriving in Manhattan on Friday, which is also auspiciously the eve of Ganesh Chaturthi. Nope,......
The dinner Jill Biden and her husband US President Joe Biden hosted for Prime Minister Narendra D Modi, June 22, at the White House brought together, Indians and Americans from so many firmaments,......
'Partition was a two-sided story in a very big way.''We've oversimplified it, blamed the British, thought of ourselves only as victims.''We've been both victims and perpetrators.' IMAGE: One of......
Eruditus runs on a partnership model with top global universities such as MIT, Columbia, Harvard, Cambridge, INSEAD, Wharton, and UC Berkeley, offering courses in coding, data science, fintech,......
'There is no tried and true recipe for creating Silicon Valleys.''Attracting and creating a mass of truly dynamic entrepreneurs is at the core and among the hardest and most necessary......
In Mali, Niger, Sierra Leone, India, Indonesia, and Kenya, fuel-based lighting is not particularly 'job-intensive.' Switching from fuel-based lighting -- such as firewood and kerosene......
Be a fox by temperament and a hedgehog by conviction, Gaurav Dalmia tells Bhupesh Bhandari. Then, he explains why. IMAGE: Gaurav Dalmia, left, with Martin Indyk, former US special envoy for......
Over home-cooked food, Rohan Murty tells Rahul Jacob he is fascinated by history and ancient texts, and about his efforts to measure productivity in software companies, such as Infosys. IMAGE:......
Making her film debut with The Householder, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala wrote more screenplays than novels, winning two Oscars -- for A Room with a View and Howards End.She kept her distance from the film......
Who knew jumping around in a shop as a kid could lead to a career in acting? Barkha Singh certainly didn't. Today, with more than 500 ads , four serials (Bhagyalakshmi, Love By Chance, Fanaah and......
Armed with mostly positive reviews, the disturbing, thought-provoking film The War Within, about a Pakistani suicide bomber who sets out to blow up Grand Central station in New York, is expanding......
Neha Dhupia is one hot actress who is super cool. And on Rediff Chat, she handled all the adulation the fans showered on her with humour and aplomb.She spoke candidly about her upcoming films,......
IMAGE: Boxing gloves with well wishes are left at a makeshift memorial for late boxing champion Muhammad Ali in Louisville. Photograph: Lucas Jackson/Reuters. A Muslim funeral for Muhammad Ali on......
‘To be properly prepared for burial, prayed over and then buried is a right owed to every single Muslim’ IMAGE: Momentos, including a pair of boxing gloves, lie at a makeshift......
A Liverpool fan holds aloft her team scarf. Photograph: Clive Brunskill/Getty Images Liverpool will cover most miles of any Premier League club in pre-season preparation, closely followed by......