His fingers flew, fluttered and floated in quicksilver changes of raga and rhythm, drumming up music and magic. IMAGE: Tabla Maestro Ustad Zakir Hussain. Photograph: ANI Photo Zakir Hussain was......
Designer Rohit Bal, a pioneer who helped put Indian fashion on the global map and dressed celebrities at home, Hollywood and elsewhere, died on Friday night at a south Delhi hospital following a......
After steering the Rediff mothership for close to 29 years, Ajit Balakrishnan, founder, chairman and CEO, did what few businessmen in this country do -- R-E-T-I-R-E. On August 2, 2024, we were......
Vimla Patil always stressed the importance of proving wrong the perception that women were women's worst enemies. And it is a lesson I carried forward with me all through my career, learning......
Veteran media personality and business tycoon Ch Ramoji Rao, who passed away in Hyderabad on Saturday, is a versatile genius whose work is unparalleled across various fields like media,......
Bangladesh might overtake India this year by per capita income in nominal dollars, but it is not yet close to becoming South Asia's economic powerhouse anytime soon, T N Ninan points out. IMAGE:......
After luxury brands setting up shop in India, it is now international lifestyle and luxury magazines that are making a beeline to launch Indian editions. OK! and Marie Claire were launched in quick......
India has moved up 35 places to become the 88th best country in the world to live in, leaving behind nations like Russia and China, according to a survey. The rise has made India the second best......
Is it time to take a relook at our economic theories? asks Ajit Balakrishnan.Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com If there is one thing that deep-thinking observers agree about the recently......
Impacted by the Western style of living and growing desire among the urbane to bring in designer bedrooms and bathrooms of their favouritetelevision soap operas into their homes,bed and bath......
Gauri wasn't very happy about living the Bombay life.With no friends in the city, she wanted her husband's films to flop so they could go back home, to Delhi.A unique slice of Shah Rukh Khan's......
'As tempers flared, worried for his safety, I requested Duggu to sit in his car by the gate.''He did.''Later, I asked him how he could have remained so calm in the circumstances.''He told me......
It was a year of so many contradictions and contrasts that it became dangerous to talk about movies, people lost their heads discussing Friday releases, psychiatrists began dabbling in film......
Get your lowdown on what's happening in the world of Hollywood, right here! Mariah Carey has appeared topless for the second time in a magazine, showing off her pregnant belly. The 42-year-old......
It doesn't seem like it, but 25 years have passed since Kuch Kuch Hota Hai released and introduced a bright, youngm director name Karan Johar. He has directed just six feature films since his......
Cesc Fabregas is torn between staying with Arsenal or moving back to Barcelona and has said he is still in real doubt over where his future lies. The 23-year-old Arsenal captain has been courted by......
Tennis prodigy Jelena Dokic's estranged father Damir was given a month's detention Thursday to investigate claims that he made death threats against the Australian ambassador in Belgrade, a judge......
She has spunk, confidence, naughtiness and lots of style. Meet Sania Mirza, off-court Not for nothing is Sania Mirza the queen of Indian tennis. When she is isn't outplaying opponents on the......
Golfer Tiger Woods, engulfed in speculation over his private life after a car accident in the middle of the night, apologized on Wednesday for "transgressions" in a statement that apparently......