A fortnight after he became the face of the Indian soldier in the Kargil war, on July 8, 1999, Vikram Batra died. He was mortally wounded after fighting through the night while recapturing Peak......
A sword-wielding man on Tuesday smashed a vehicle into a home and then went on a stabbing spree in a 'serious incident' near an east London Tube station, killing a 13-year-old boy and wounding four......
'Gandhi had given the call 'Do or Die'. And with all the leaders arrested, you had to be your own leader.' IMAGE: Dr G G Parikh with Yusuf Meherally's potrait behind him at the Yusuf Meherally......
'They had been locked up for 17 days and the door was opened and they're like, 'We're not going on one of these stretcher things. We're out of here'!' 'Then someone says, 'They're all out!' 'They......
This doctor couple put their faith in India. And in return India has put faith in them. IMAGE: The Parikhs in Paris in 1984. On December 5, 1988, a cold winter evening, an Air India plane touched......
The diamond merchant wanted in India on charges of fraud and money laundering in the estimated $2-billion Punjab National Bank scam case, lost his legal battle against extradition as a UK judge......
23 Yards will include body wash, beard oil, shaving gel, deodorant and sanitizer. IMAGE: Ravi Shastri, the Indian cricket team's head coach, has become a businessman, like India's Captain Virat......
'The whole India will come together to celebrate one film and that film is our film.' Photograph: Hitesh Harisinghani/Rediff.com "I remember the first scene we shot in Pushpa. It was the Srivalli......
Akshay Kumar is a creature of habit. From the 'khiladi' brand of movies rocking his boat to a love for starring in biopics and scripts inspired by true stories to headlining endless remakes of......
What follows is essentially a long scene set in a single location, and you watch in amazement as the scene grows into one of Indian cinema's funniest and most spectacular pieces of sustained......
When you leave the cinema hall, what stays with you is the message of inclusion and the need to stand up for your freedom, observes Divya Nair. After a dud 2023, Dhanush lands a plush Pongal......
'Things have changed overnight after Animal.' IMAGE: Bobby Deol in Animal. "I can't play caricature villains. I don't want to do that. I was offered some big film recently where I was asked......
One of cricket's greatest players passed into the ages on Monday.Rediff.com salutes the legend. IMAGE: Bedi in action, August 2, 1971. Photograph: Dennis Oulds/Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty......
Photograph: Hitesh Harisinghani/Rediff.com On Monday, April 24, 2023, Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar will be 50 years old. For those of us who first saw him stride onto a cricket field aged 16 back in......
On Republic Day eve last week, Subedar Neeraj Chopra -- who ended India's 125 year wait for an athletic medal at an Olympics by winning the javelin event at the Tokyo Games -- received a dual......
IMAGE: France's Benoit Paire in action. Photograph: Peter Nicholls/Reuters Benoit Paire was warned for lack of effort and heckled by the crowd during a 6-3, 6-4, 6-0 first-round defeat by......
'Somehow the Flying Sikh has endured in people's memory.' IMAGE: The Legendary Milkha Singh, who passed into the ages on June 18, 2021. Photograph: PTI Photo This feature was first published on......