Satish Bodas/Rediff.com captures glimpses from some of Mumbai's well-known Ganesh Mandals. IMAGE: The Khetwadi 11th Galli Sarvajanik Ganeshotsav Mandal, founded in 1962, has a towering 45......
A security man was killed in an encounter after Maoists blew up part of the Hehegarha railway station and tracks in Jharkhand's Latehar district on Thursday on the second day of their two-day......
Following a delayed monsoon, people in the holy city of Varanasi organised the mythical marriage of frogs to please the rain gods on Thursday. They prayed that the weather gods would open up the......
A country as diverse as India has some of the strangest rituals and traditions. From bizarre ways to cure illnesses to an unusual matrimony to please the rain gods…the things people do here......
Given the controversy over the Uttar Pradesh government's population control policy, Hemant Shivsaran/Rediff.com digs deep to find out how many children BJP legislators in UP have. IMAGE: Uttar......
From Aishwarya Rai Bachchan lamenting Ishq Bina Kya Marna Yaara in Taal to Alia Bhatt embracing Ishq Wala Love in Student of the Year, generations full of Bollywood romance are coloured in all......
Move aside Adipurush. There's a grand new epic being played out. Colors TV's new show Shiv Shakti: Tap Tyag Tandav tells the story of love between Lord Shiva and Parvati/Shakti. Celebrated set......
The love story of Shakuntala and Dushyant is so familiar, from textbooks, comics, stage and screen versions, that it has become part of our cultural DNA.If a film-maker thinks he can make it his......
'I felt insulted, very hurt, that Indian cinema meant only Hindi cinema.' IMAGE: Ram Charan with his father Chiranjeevi in Acharya. Recalling a visit to Delhi in 1988, Chiranjeevi said it was......
Anil Kapoor and Madhuri Dixit get ready to make Total Dhamaal on the big screen again! Photograph: Kind courtesy Anil Kapoor/Instagram Of all the actresses he has romanced on screen, Anil Kapoor......
Former internationals Rohan Gavaskar, Deep Dasgupta and Hemang Badani are among 101 cricketers who have severed links with the rebel Indian Cricket League and applied to the Board of Control for......