The proposed mosque in Ayodhya that is set to be built following the Supreme Court verdict in the Babri Masjid case may be named after Maulvi Ahmadullah Shah, the warrior of the 1857 mutiny against......
'The summer of 1857 saw violence, perpetrated by the Indians and the Britons, on an unprecedented scale.''Never before and never after in the history of British rule in India was there violence at......
Riding the Modi wave, a record number of 43 Union ministers marched to Lok Sabha, while five others including former bureaucrats Hardeep Singh Puri and K J Alphons faced disappointment. As many as......
John Lang represented Rani Laxmibai in her legal battle against the East India Company to stop the annexation of her kingdom of Jhansi.Rediff.com's Archana Masih profiles the maverick Aussie who......
Smriti Irani will reprise her electoral battle with Rahul Gandhi from Amethi.Advani has been representing Gandhinagar in the Lok Sabha since 1998. IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra Modi welcomed by......
Rehana Sultan was all set to be a path-breaker.The time was right.Hindi cinema had emerged from the 1960s musicals era.But somehow, leading film-makers of the time did not believe Rehana had that......
'A historical with an identity crisis, initially the period drama cannot decide whether it wants to chronicle facts or fictionalise them in the tradition of a crowd-pleasing fantasy,' says Sukanya......
The hits and misses of the week. Kamal Haasan's Vishwaroop 2 is a disaster. Mulk and Karwaan maintain steady collections in their second week, but not enough to come out of the red. Fanney Khan......
The hits and misses of the week. Last week's releases -- Fanney Khan, Karwaan and Mulk -- met with a poor response at the box office. While Karwaan showed improvement over the other two films, all......
Those who made their fortunes in front of the camera often want to try their hand at direction, like actor Ajay Devgn who begins shooting Shivaay later this year, and Sunny Deol who is......