Sheena Bora Murder Case: Game of Cat & Mouse

Will there be answers?Will we ever know the truth about who murdered Sheena Bora? Savera R Someshwar reports from the Sheena Border murder trial.Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com It's the......

History will view Sonia Gandhi positively

'Sonia's term as Congress president -- which was 20 years -- was the longest in the party's history.''It will also go down as the period in which the Congress transformed in the way Indians viewed......

Remembering Girija Devi, the voice of Benares

'There is no one who can fill the vacuum created by the passing of Girija Devi,' mourns Sunita Budhiraja. Photograph: Kind courtesy Suyash Dwivedi/Wikimedia Commons It was the year 2008. I learnt......

'If you excel, the very society that hated you will be in awe'

Manobi Bandyopadhyay, India's first transgender principal of a college, speaks of her struggles in a moving interview. There was a time when the owner of a car would wash the seats after she......

Raj Kapoor@100: The Woman's Director

Dinesh Raheja views Raj Kapoor's cinema through his women, while celebrating his birth centenary on December 14. IMAGE: Raj Kapoor and Nargis in Barsaat. In Raj Kapoor's swan song, Ram Teri Ganga......

'When Durga Died, We All Felt The Loss'

'I often wondered while watching the film/trilogy, what if Durga had lived.'' What if Ray made The Durga Trilogy.'Sandip Roy looks back at Pather Panchali's Durga and the woman who brought her......

All We Imagine As Light Review: Ode To Hope, Humanity And Her

Payal Kapadia's understanding of what it means to be a woman is as poignant as her authentic portrait of Mumbai's hoi polloi, observes Sukanya Verma. Three immigrant women from different......

8 Times You Couldn't Look Away From Zeenat Aman

Zeenat Aman had scored more hit songs than any of her contemporaries.This can be attributed partly to happenstance and partly to the fact that her forte for high glamour could be showcased most......