Candidates in Punjab's Jalandhar can spend Rs 15 for a cup of tea and the same price for a samosa they offer to people during public meetings and campaign trails in the Lok Sabha elections. IMAGE:......
Thulasenthirapuram and Painganadu villages in Tamil Nadu celebrate Kamala Devi Harris's victory.A Ganesh Nadar/Rediff.com reports. IMAGE: A Kamala Harris poster in her ancestral village in Tamil......
'Any meaningful food security programme should aim at gradually reducing the number of hungry dependent on government support,' says Devinder Sharma. 'This is only possible if the government had......
Pazhai chadam [the previous day's rice] and thayir [curd]," my Paati (grandmother) would always advise. Paati had everyone under her radar. No one could escape Thayir Chadam. It did not matter what......
Early September, and I'm in the office of a government official in Nagapattinam, lovely old colonial building. A dozen or more people have gathered to discuss an event that's still nearly a month......
India has no idiosyncratic innovation ecosystem, distinctively its own. Our VCs will not rush to fund brilliant ideas, says R Gopalakrishnan. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com The two ends......
In 2001, J Jayalalitha, now in her third term as the chief minister of Tamil Nadu, had expressed a wish to act as a mother to all Tamils. Known as amma, which is Tamil for mother, amongst her......
Have you been to Chennai lately? Of course, I'm not posing this question to those who stay there, it's just that I want to point out that Chennai is changing rapidly, if you haven't noticed it.......
Most Indian visitors to the Airbus headquarters at Toulouse in France are pleasantly surprised when Kiran Rao, executive vice-president (marketing and contracts, customer affairs), Airbus, serves......
When Twinkle Khanna asked her celebrity friends what was in their dabba, everyone wrote in and sent their recipes as well. While Akshay's dabba had avocado on toast and chia pudding, Malaika Arora......
When Twinkle Khanna asked her celebrity friends what was in their dabba, everyone wrote in and sent their recipes as well. While Akshay's dabba had avocado on toast and chia pudding, Malaika Arora......
'Dharamji's mother Satwant Kaur was warm and kind-hearted.''I remember how she came to meet me at a dubbing studio in Juhu after I had conceived Esha.''She hadn't informed anyone in the house.''I......
Forget the corruption claims and unfinished stadiums, Sheela Bhatt finds out that New Delhi is all set to feed the 8,000 athletes who will descend for the Commonwealth Games, in true Indian style......