From jogger to birdwatcher

'As the sun rises, so does my acquaintance with the neighbourhood's avifauna,' says Kishore Singh. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com If you wake early, as I often do, you get to see some......

Sheela Says: Modi's Varanasi blues

Is Modi trampling upon his senior BJP colleagues while taking decisions? How come Team Modi underestimated the political action-reaction when they were upsetting two of the BJP's founding fathers,......

Pressing the 'reply' button won't do

Do you ever realize that you never take the initiative to write to me?" emailed my second cousin. It was only then that I came to grips with the reality of this modern convenience called email.In......

Ministers feel Budget heat

India's Food Processing Minister Subodh Kant Sahay on Thursday met Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee in New Delhi ahead of the general budget on July 6. Information and Broadcasting......

'I am messed up'

'My way of life, my way of thinking, my approach towards work is not the optimum way to be in the film industry.''After doing one film, I want to sit at home.' Photograph: Kind courtesy Arshad......

Is Dileesh Pothan our finest film-maker?

'I might in the future step out of a Dileesh Pothan movie not completely satisfied, but content I'll be in the knowledge that our greatest living film-maker had failed striving to be something more......

How Waluscha spent the lockdown with Salman

'What happens at a time like this is that you always look up to someone for inspiration and strength.' IMAGE: Waluscha De Sousa. Waluscha De Sousa, who made her debut in the Shah Rukh Khan starrer......

You'll fall in love with Jackie Shroff... yet again!

'I lived in a chawl for 33 years, aur potty ke liye line lagaya, holding a dabba (I would queue up to go to the loo, with a bucket in my hand).''Even after I became a hero, I......

IPL 2023: 'Impact Player' rule negates all-rounders' role: Ponting

IMAGE: DC coach Ricky Ponting said the Capitals will miss regular skipper Rishabh Pant in the upcoming season. Photograph: BCCI Rishabh Pant is irreplaceable in Delhi Capitals set-up and no one......

Tendulkar ton fires India to easy win

Scorecard Sachin Tendulkar scored a blazing century to pave the way for India's huge 160-run victory over the West Indies in the fourth and final one-day international, at the IPCL stadium in......

Wrestler Gardner takes frostbite in his stride

Oprah, David Letterman, CNN, Good Morning America, Who Wants to be a Millionaire? and a Wyoming Tourism Board commercial.Just about the only show wrestler Rulon Gardner did not appear on after......