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When mob mentality came alive on stage

'Zund makes one sit up and wonder why we have allowed ourselves to be played like pawns by power mongers,' says Neeta Kolhatkar.Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com Zund, in Marathi, means......

A cat, not a coward

Perumal Murugan's Songs Of A Coward reminds Uttaran Das Gupta of Orwell's Animal Farm and Ionesco's The Rhinoceros.Both works, as well as Murugan's stark poetry, are poignant for our times, when......

The music of Ishiguro's words

'Did the Nobel committee, reviled for awarding Mr Dylan, play a little inside joke this time around, by awarding another lyricist who was once an aspiring musician?' asks Uttaran Das......

When lawkeepers turn abductors

'How can the police, especially the Gujarat police, earn their laurels if they stick to the rule book?' asks lawyer Susan Abraham. Tushar Kanti Bhattacharya's arrest on the early morning of......

Raghuram Rajan's Kafkaesque trial in Modi's India

Raghuram Rajan's exit reminds Syed Firdaus Ashraf of Kafka's The Trial. Amidst the brouhaha over Udta Punjab, producer Anurag Kashyap's tweet left me intrigued: 'I always wondered what it felt......

3 Indian Americans on Forbes list of richest women

Three Indian-origin women have been named by Forbes among America's 80 richest self-made women, the "ceiling crashers" and "overachievers" blazing their own trails as they create new businesses and......

Why Rising Pune Supergiant changed its name!

'Last year, someone told us you must remove 's', otherwise you won't perform well and we didn't perform well.''Obviously, that's not the reason for not performing well, but it didn't hurt us to......

Who designed the new Wipro logo?

All about logos Are you familiar with the corporate logos? How much do you know about them? Take the rediff business quiz to gauge your knowledge. Biz Quiz is best viewed in Internet Explorer (IE)......

Top-earning dead celebrities

They're famous across the globe. Their work is treasured by millions. And they're rolling in cash--they just can't spend any of it. The 13 members of our annual Top-Earning Dead Celebrities list......

Buyback: Where's the choice?

Consider this: you are living in a housing society and the society writes to you -- unless you specifically write otherwise -- that your flat will be bought out by the society at a price determined......

Mohanlal would be perfect as Georgekutty.. 25 years ago

The curse of stardom, especially in a country like India -- which wants its Gods to be tidy and punctilious -- is that stardom forces you to stop exploring the frozen sea inside you, and instead......

It's been 30 years since Flop Show!

Jaspal Bhatti's feel for the grime, the confusions, and the madness in our system was so complete that he could take on every kind of woman or man God ever gave to the institutions of India,......

PIX: Rohit Roy's beach holiday

Actors Manasi Joshi and Rohit Roy celebrated their only child Kiara's 17th birthday at a week-long holiday in the Maldives. 'And we are off!! Birthday celebrations begin! Birthday girl......

PIX: Behind the scenes of SRK's The Ring

Happy birthday, Shah Rukh Khan! Shah Rukh Khan has been shooting his new film The Ring, co-starring Anushka Sharma, in exotic locations like Prague, Budapest, Amsterdam and Lisbon. He seemed......

'Sex is beautiful only when it's hinted at'

'It took a 75-year-old director to teach the reformist set of Facebook users that Evil is not an aberration, but something that resides in the most regular seeming of human beings,' says Sreehari......

Legendary Zatopek's legs to run wild in Rio

IMAGE: Czech artist David Cerny with his creations. Photograph: CTK/Facebook. The triumphs of Czech great Emil Zatopek will be celebrated in Rio de Janeiro with dozens of pairs of......

Anand draws again, slips to joint 5th place

Viswanathan Anand's incredible winless streak continues unabated as the World Champion played out yet another draw with Teimour Radjabov of Azerbaijan to slip to the joint fifth spot in the Bilbao......

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