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Modi In Varanasi: Festive Saffron Fervour

Utkarsh Mishra's impressions of the Narendra Modi roadshow in Varanasi. IMAGE: Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Narendra Modi undertakes a roadshow in Varanasi, his Lok Sabha constituency, May......

'How can I let go of my faith?'

Rediff.com's Utkarsh Mishra visits the Kashi Vishwanath temple-Gyanvapi mosque in Varanasi, which is fast being turned into another mandir-masjid dispute. IMAGE: The Gyanvapi mosque inside the......

ED books BBC India for foreign exchange violations, seeks documents

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has registered a case under FEMA against BBC India for alleged foreign exchange violations and called its staffers for questioning following which a deputy managing......

Who will 'fact check' Modi govt?: Congress on new IT rules

The Congress on Thursday termed as "surreptitious assault on free speech" the new amendment in the draft IT Rules asking social media companies to take down news articles that have been deemed......

'We have become passive consumers of hatred'

'The right wing has worked for 70-80 years at the grass roots before it burst onto social media.''Social media is an extension of its formidable work in society.''If you think you can fight them on......

7 lessons on innovation from David Bowie

If 'innovation' were a person, he or she would have looked like David Bowie, says Bhaskar Chakravorti. Image: David Bowie performs during the Fashion Rocks concert at New York City's Radio......

Taxman plans super sleuth to monitor cash trails!

Nineteen Eighty-Four may arrive sooner than you think. And, it will be the income-tax department that could take on the role of an Orwellian Big Brother should the government clear a far-reaching......

'You have to break all the rules'

The first of a series of excerpts from Nandan Nilekani's book Imagining India: A nightmare of pulsing, twitching, flashing complexity,' was how one intimidated journalist chose to describe a......

After Apple, what?

This summer, a clever 17-year-old New Jersey high-school student named George Hotz made headlines by breaking AT&T's lock on the iPhone, using a soldering gun and software to enable its use on......

Are you a call centre worker? Beware!

As part of my profession, I need to visit all types of organisations and often need to work with clients till late in the night.Last April, on one such visit, I stepped out of the offices of one of......

The Indian Film Making Global Waves

'I thought of a suppressed country and a free world.''If we travel from one to another, what will that road look like?''What colours, music there will be? What kind of people would you see?'......

Trapped! A metaphor for Motwane's movies

'In Udaan and in Lootera, the initial sensations that drove Vikramaditya Motwane to make those pictures never quite travelled beyond the walls that contained them.''Here, in Trapped, this......

Review: The new RoboCop disappoints

'In an attempt to make it relevant to our darker, more violent times, director Jose Padilha loses sight of the point he wishes to make through the film,' says Paloma Sharma after watching......

Review: Tom Hanks' Electric City is intriguing

AnkurPathakfeel theamazing animation, complemented by a good voice over makes Electric City worth a watch. Hollywood actor Tom Hanks has launched an inventive direct-to-web animated series called......

Review: Priest is not about vampires alone

Shaikh Ayaz reviews Priest. Post YOUR reviews here!Let's first get a misconception out of its way. Scott Stewart's Priest, his second collaboration with actor Paul Bettany, is not a subject of......

Warner's "football tsunami" warning finally comes true for FIFA

A combination photo shows eight of the nine football officials indicted for corruption charges in these file photos. Photograph: Reuters Almost exactly four years to the day since former FIFA......

Unforgiving cricket-crazy fans set for Indo-Pak World Cup clash

Indian cricket fans with their faces painted with national flags of India (left) and Pakistan. Photograph: Pawan Kumar/Reuters Cricket is just a game, but try telling that to the 22 players who......

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