What the fiddich! Why are books so fat?

Just as scotch bottles have become bigger, novels have also become fatter. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com. A few days ago, a friend said he doesn’t read fiction. This reminded me of......

9/11: Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names

Silence replaced the laughter at Rajesh Mirpuri's home when 9/11 took him a week before his birthday, finds George Joseph Rajesh Mirpuri was just a week short of his 31st birthday when tragedy......

Arvind Lavakare: Invention of history

Three rituals are performed every year in India onNovember 14-- the birthday of Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first prime minister who passed away in 1964. Ritual number one is that our morning......

If Ekta Kapoor called Aishwarya Sushmita...

'I've been getting offers to play someone who is sexy, hot and smart.' IMAGE: Aishwarya Sushmita and Santanu Ghatak in a scene from Special Ops 1.5: The Himmat Story. She's got these tags. That......

OTT This Week: Horror! Thrills! Action!

Sukanya Verma offers tons of horror and some happy stuff too, on OTT this week.   Cold CaseWhere to watch? Amazon Prime VideoLanguage: Malayalam (with subtitles) A cop and journalist......

'I will always be thankful to Vinod Khanna'

'One day, (director) Manmohan Desai turned up at a studio I was shooting in and said in his inimitable manner: 'I'm producing a film for the first time. It's called Amar Akbar......

Hitchcock's brilliance shines all over again!

Here's a look at the Blu-ray versions of Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca, Spellbound and Notorious. In the haunting movie classic Rebecca which has just been released in Blu-ray, the suspense is......

Tour de France: Ewan outsmarts Bennett to win stage three

Frenchman Alaphilippe retains lead. IMAGE: Lotto Soudal rider Australia's Caleb Ewan wins the third stage ahead of Deceuninck-Quick Step's Irish rider Sam Bennett during the Nice to Sisteron stage......

Will underperforming Pant be left out of 3rd T20I?

  IMAGE: Rishabh Pant has struggled in the first two T20Is vs West Indies with scores of 4 and 0. Photograph: Clive Mason/Getty Images With the T20I series in the pocket, India are likely to......

Sports Shorts: IAAF wants Semenya to lower testosterone level

Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Thursday IMAGE: In an official statement, IAAF clarified that they are not classifying any Differences of Sexual Development (DSD) athlete,......

When sportsmen and the drug mafia made for strange bedfellows

IMAGE: Rafael Marquez. Photograph: Reuters/Files The world woke up on Thursday morning to the news for Mexico captain and former Barcelona defender Rafael Marquez as one among 20 people sanctioned......

PHOTOS: The gold medallists on Day 16 at Rio Olympics

Check out the gold medallists on Sunday, Day 16 of the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro. Boxing: Yoka wins Super-heavy gold for France IMAGE: Tony Yoka celebrates after winning the men's Super......