The Modi government has to embrace the history of Tamil conquests in South East Asia and stop obsessing about Babar/Humayun, argues Colonel Anil A Athale (retd). IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra......
'Our modern icons have assumed infallibility and think course correction or admission of a mistake as taboo.''Much will depend on the sagacity of the national leadership to show humility that our......
Nearly two months after a Russian court rejected a ban on a translated version of Bhagvad Gita, a top Siberian prosecutor has now demanded the removal of a Russian comment only from the book for......
A braille version of the Hindu devotional and philosophic classic Bhagavat Gita has been developed for the benefit of visually impaired persons by a spiritual institution in Kerala. The first ever......
Working actively at 78 isn't something most people can manage. Then again, Dr V Shanta isn't like most people. A doctor by profession, her day starts at 5.45 am and ends an hour before midnight. As......
'There are companies that are losing and there are companies that are rising.''And the companies that are losing are positioning it as an economic slowdown.'Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com......
IMAGE: Cillian Murphy and Emily Blunt in Oppenheimer. Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer is doing very well at the box office across the world. In India, Oppenheimer has done better than Barbie, the......
'This body is mine. And bearing its burden has become quite a task,' Dilip Kumar once told Subhash K Jha. Whenever I met India's greatest actor, I was struck by how magnetic he looked. Yes, Dilip......
Well known cinematographer Madhu Ambat has won the National Award two times -- one for G V Iyer's Sanskrit film Adi Shankara and the other for Sarada Ramanathan's Tamil film Sringaram. Some of......
When Ashok Kaul directed Paramvir Chakra in 1994, he started a new wave of war epics. His new film, Bhaggmati: The Queen Of Fortunes,is on the verge of revolutionising the way we perceive different......
It was ten years ago March 14, 1995, to be precise -- that I met 'Gemini' Ganesan for an interview for the first time in my life. I was new to Madras (it was not Chennai then) and new to the world......