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'Kalnirnay belongs to the people of India'

'Kalnirnay is like a bible for any family.' Shakti Salgaonkar, executive director, Sumangal Group in a freewheeling chat with Satish Bodas/Rediff.com, discusses 50 years of Kalnirnay, a calendar......

A Serendipitous Civil Service Career

Every twist and turn in KMC's civil service career is attributed to serendipity, an aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident. He plays down his capabilities, which took him to the top......

Salman Rushdie: The free speech champion whose 'verses' put his life at risk

The attack on Rushdie sent shock waves around the world, with world leaders and literary stalwarts saying they were appalled at the attack on the author who championed free speech and lived under......

IAS probationers to learn critical thinking through crosswords

Solving crosswords as part of training modules will enable future civil servants to enhance their critical thinking and decision-making, and a plan towards that objective is afoot, the director of......

Will newspapers survive COVID-19?

'Here is hoping that the entirely unintended and unforeseen victims of the coronavirus, the printed papers, emerge safe and unscathed from the affliction,' says Shreekant Sambrani.Illustration:......

Documents you must keep handy to file income tax returns

The Income-Tax (I-T) Department nowadays provides pre-filled forms to make the filing of income-tax return (ITR) easier. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com Nonetheless, you must have a number of......

How COVID is changing the game plan for booksellers, publishers

In the future, publishers will need to think of digital immersive marketing just like marketing a movie or show on Netflix is an immersive experience. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com After......

Shoppers Stop junks 'one-size-fits-all' strategy; readies new plan to boost growth

The store segmentation approach that Shoppers Stop is taking is intended to improve its hit rate at a time when local and international fashion retailers are crowding the market with new......

'In one shot, three or four major issues are taken care of'

'Ultimately if your aim is that you need to be able to deal with a security situation, you need to deal with a black money situation, you need to deal with a counterfeiting situation then, to that......

The revulsion! The betrayal. The realisation you knew all along

'I'm a little fuzzy on the details, but I know that everyone is behaving as if they've just discovered that their favourite grandfather is a peeping tom,' says Mitali Saran. My eyes generally......

'I don't like the new films from Yash Raj'

'Rani has changed Adi for the better. If he is happy, why should I not be happy?' Pamela Chopra, in a fascinating interview with Patcy N/Rediff.com, on her sons, Aditya and Uday Chopra, and her......

The Magic That Was Sanjeev Kumar

For Sanjeev Kumar, it was the role, and what he could do with it, that mattered.Videos: Afsar Dayatar/Rediff.com IMAGE: Anil Kapoor launches Sanjeev Kumar: The Actor We All Loved. Photograph: Kind......

Mahesh Bhatt and Anupam Kher: 2 friends, 2 ideologies

At a time when even family relationships have come under strain over political differences, how have Mahesh Bhatt and Anupam Kher remained friends despite their ideological differences?Syed Firdaus......

Taimur Ali Khan's grandmom: I am enjoying this phase of my life

'The year started with Tiger's (her late husband, cricket legend Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi) birthday. And we had a wonderful cricket match on the occasion… Now the year ends with the birth of......

Brand Rajinikanth goes viral!

With just a week for the release of Rajinikanth's Kabali, the makers are going all out to cash in on the superstar's popularity. From planes to telecom companies to T-shirts, mobile cases, coffee......

Jeffrey Archer to Team India: Don't be Bollywood stars!

Jeffrey Archer talks cricket and more in this very special edition of Silly Point. Jeffrey Archer loves cricket. So Abhishek Mande-Bhot/Rediff.com decided to bowl Lord Archer some googlies. Did......

I-T tracking money flow into betting syndicates

As 'spot-fixing' charges haunt Pakistani cricketers, Indian sleuths probing alleged tax evasion in the multi-million IPL are now tracking trail of crores of rupees being pumped into betting......

WT20: India's semis chances not really hopeless

When India lost to the West Indies on Sunday, the men in blue really did have their millions of fans singing the blues. Even the staunchest fan was very depressed, since it was clear a miracle of......

Spotted: Prakash Padukone in Bangalore

Reader Saurabh Tandon sent us this photograph. 'We spotted Prakash Padukone (All England Badminton Champion 1980) at Crosswords, Residency Road, Bangalore. In the picture, my mother Kusum and my......

Harsha Bhogle chats with Prem Panicker

His proudest possession and the one that best defines him is a photograph of a group of spectators holding up a banner that reads 'Harsha Bhogle Fan Club'. What gives......

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