Till the early nineties, like millions of Mumbaikars, Pramod Dattaram Kode -- now the 54-year old special TADA (Terrorist and Disruptive Activities Act) court judge who sentenced actor Sanjay Dutt......
Marcel Proust (1871-1922) is not widely known in India. A Frenchmen of Jewish origin, his fame rests on his novel Remembrance of Things Past. It is considered, after Tolstoy's War and Peace, the......
It was the star of the classic film, Roman Holiday. The world's oldest Vespa, a handcrafted scooter that featured in the 1953 Audrey Hepburn blockbuster movie Roman Holiday, is up for auction and......
Company NamesWhen translated in Korean what does Daewoo mean?Take the Rediff Biz Quiz and find out how much you know about companies and their names.1. Which brand of scooter when translated into......
For people like me, all these fast-moving gadgets are not only costly and confusing but emotionally barren as well notes Barun Roy. Image: 920s Underwood typewriter with Swedish layout.......
Did you know Dev Anand worked as a clerk at a salary of Rs 85 before he became an actor? IMAGE: Dev Anand. Dev Anand led a larger-than-life existence on screen. His real life was just as eventful.......
In this seventh batch of the special series, we present some more lesser-known facts about Dev Anand. Read the first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth parts here.1. Mumtaz was offered Zeenat......
Here's presenting the sixth batch in the special series of lesser-known facts of Bollywood's evergreen star Dev Anand. Read the first, second, third, fourth and fifth parts here.1. Had just......
Continuing with the nine-part series, we bring the second batch of lesser known facts about Dev Anand's life. Click here to read the first part.1. Hare Ram Hare Krishna helped a father......
The cowboy is possibly one of Hollywood's greatest inventions. The hat-wearing, hard-drinking cowboys, mythified by the American Westerns, were not coy boys; they were men who didn't hanker for......