At this year's TIME ball in New York City on Thursday, April 25, you would have run into a Coimbatore-born American scientist, looking lovely in Sabyasachi Mukherjee designer finery, who would most......
The fascination for the skies and what lies beyond has fathered an expansive stockpile of astronomical myths and legends and in India, also an elaborate astrological system, notes Arundhuti......
One of the most brilliant theoretical physicists since Einstein passes into worlds beyond our understanding. IMAGE: Professor Stephen Hawking at a launch event for the Stephen Hawking Medal for......
'How you live serves as a much better track record than your timeline,' says Mitali Saran.Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com There was a moment, in the aftermath of the terrorist attack on......
This week marks the 4th anniversary of the Voyager 1 spacecraft crossing over from our solar system into interstellar space. Prathmesh Kher/Rediff.com recalls how a planetary mission became......
Is India's gain America's loss?Sunny globalists like New York Times columnist Thomas L Friedman delight in India's rising economic prominence, led by its vast pool of high-tech engineers.Then......
'If it weren't for Om Puri, a whole range of our big city experiences wouldn't have found their honest representations on the screen,' notes Sreehari Nair on the legendary actor's birthday. IMAGE:......
I do have a dream biopic. It has as its subject Renu Saluja, the cosmically gifted editor, with a special focus on the Vidhu Vinod Chopra-Saluja-Sudhir Mishra love story, states Sreehari Nair.......
IMAGE: Tina Tuner arrives at the Giorgio Armani fashion show in Milan, Italy. Photograph: Giuseppe Cacace/Getty Images Tina Turner, who had Indians across generations dancing to songs such as......
Once upon a time, we were so starved for entertainment that anything from documentaries on agriculture to hours of classical music was happily lapped up. But in the day and age of streaming,......
Siva Sankar looks at S P Balasubrahmanyam's fantastic repertoire. S P Balasubrahmanyam passed away in his 75th year, and so we celebrate the singer with 75 of his top songs, in a multi-part......
It’s not often that one sees three generation of actors from the same family acting in a film. Thespian Akkineni Nageswara Rao (ANR), his son Akkineni Nagarjuna and his grandson Chaitanya......