IMAGE: The solar eclipse seen from Edzna in Campeche state, Mexico October 14, 2023, here and below. Photograph: Henry Romero/Reuters Photograph: Henry Romero/Reuters Photograph:......
'And because she was very close to Indira Gandhi, she was close to me.''Sonia is a wonderful person.' IMAGE: Interim Congress President Sonia Gandhi, left, with Trinamool Congress President and......
The bear hug in which the prime minister loves to smother Western VIPs might strike as theatrical, boastful and, above all, unhygienic, in these stricken times, observes Sunanda K Datta-Ray.......
'No other leader in our history, or that of our neighbours, has been able to produce anything of the quality that Nehru did,' says Aakar Patel. Photograph: Baron/Getty Images Somewhere in......
Commander Abhilash Tomy of the Indian Navy sailed the oceans and conquered likely death after a storm badly injured his spine and destroyed his boat.Archana Masih/Rediff.com met the decorated......
Whenever you think of Microsoft, the only name that crosses one's mind is Bill Gates. But the tech behemoth was co-founded in 1975 by Gates and Paul Allen. Photograph: Anthony P......
For at least 13 years, big and small investors alike turned over their money to Paul Greenwood and Stephen Walsh, two New York money managers, in the belief that an "enhanced equity index" strategy......
Raju need not fear ostracism once he's out - society will embrace him. A friend in Washington told me that Indians working in the World Bank and International Monetary Fund began to swagger around......
Lying in bed listening to his stereo in his dorm at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston, US, Amar G. Bose fretted about how bad his new stereo sounded. This provoked him to turn......
Mumbai's Chor Bazaar is at its busiest. . . everybody wants a piece of the action on its narrow grimy alleys. Blame it on the universal dismissal of minimalist decor or the laws of supply and......
'Whenever people say to me that all my work looks unique, I say to them originality is the art of concealing your source.''You can't see the sources that I take from because usually, they are......
Sukanya Verma offers you interesting choices from Ray to Godzilla on OTT this week. RayWhere to watch? NetflixLanguage: Hindi Three directors -- Srijit Mukherji, Abhishek Chaubey and Vasan......
Aseem Chhabra imagines a time, 20 years from now, when movie-watching in theatres will be long gone, thanks to the coronavirus, and pens a letter to his grandchild, explaining the magic of the......
'We'll certainly have Hollywood productions, so why wouldn't we have Bollywood?'Indira Kannan reports. IMAGE: Members of the 69th Berlin film festival's international jury arrive for the awards......
'The first time we actually got to meet a Bollywood star, it was Salman Khan.''We met him at his farm house.''For Pia, an actor is just an actor. There is no such thing as a star in her world, and......
Yuvraj Singh managed just 65 runs in eight games for Kings XI Punjab and no wonder that the team decided to release him. IMAGE: Yuvraj Singh has put himself in the Rs 1 crore base price bracket......
After the 72-run loss in the opening Test, the margin got bigger as the visitors handed the home side a 2-0 lead in the three-match series. IMAGE: South Africa players celebrate the wicket......
IMAGE: Darren Sammy of the West Indies and England captain Eoin Morgan share a joke. Photograph: Gareth Copley/Getty Images.. England and the West Indies will look to be the first team to clinch......
Singers Beyonce Knowles and Jay-Z attend the welterweight unification championship bout at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Saturday. Photograph: Al Bello/Getty Images Floyd......
Anandji Dossa. Photograph: Haresh Pandya Blessed with a computer-like brain and an elephantine memory, Anandji Dossa was a pioneer in compiling cricket statistics and scores. Haresh Pandya pays......