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'A lot of Israeli soldiers will lose their lives'

''Hamas is going to be prepared. There will be booby traps and tunnels; it's going to be door to door fighting.' IMAGE: Smoke and flames billow after Israeli forces struck a high-rise tower in......

Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison passes away

The Nobel Prize-winning United States author Toni Morrison died at the age of 88. IMAGE: Nobel Prize-winning United States author Toni Morrison died "following a short illness". Photograph:......

The brightest Indian-American stars in the US

Indian Americans are not just shining in the fields of technology, education and management. You can now spot them everywhere -- in politics, in research, in the movies, even on YouTube, says......

How successful were surgical strikes?

The strategic success of the surgical strikes has not matched their brilliant tactical achievement, says Shekhar Gupta. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com Here are two sets of evidence as we......

When Ishiguro spoke to Rediff.com

Celebrated novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, who has just won the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature, spoke to Arthur J Pais of Rediff.com in 2009, recalling his wonderful association with Sonny Mehta,......

P-notes and regulatory shocks

Cutting through the consternation and confusion after the regulatory shock on P-notes, let's pick our way through the pieces. Aims: The government's/Sebi's objectives are, presumably, to reduce......

Davidar to be Penguin Canada's publisher

Penguin India took the publishing world by surprise with the announcement that CEO David Davidar would be leaving in January 2004 to take over as publisher of Penguin Canada.The reins at Penguin......

Feel the pull of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

For months, book lovers in America and Canada have been asking their family members and friends returning from Europe to bring them a DVD of the hit film The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and the......

Review: The Road, bleak but touching

An often heard comment at the Toronto International Film Festival where The Road was shown in September: It is bleak and numbing, and yet I could not get myself give up on it. Of course, many of......

Mira Nair, Abraham Verghese in conversation

Over a decade ago, Mira Nair turned Dr Abraham Verghese's best-selling memoir My Own Country into a well-received telly film starring Naveen Andrews. On Wednesday, Nair and Verghese met at Asia......

Chandrasekaran's book bought by United 93 director

British director Paul Greengrass -- who on one hand makes thrillers such as The Bourne Supremacy, and on the other creates chilling and unhysterical 9/11 drama United 93 -- has announced a film......

What is just as interesting as Hollywood?

If you ever thought there was something benign about the way independent films are made, you have to read Peter Biskind. "Life in the indie world can be nasty, brutish, and short," Biskind writes......

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