Nobel laureate economist Abhijit Banerjee has said the current situation in Bangladesh is unlikely to trigger a fresh round of exodus of minority Hindus into India. IMAGE: People stage a......
At this year's TIME ball in New York City on Thursday, April 25, you would have run into a Coimbatore-born American scientist, looking lovely in Sabyasachi Mukherjee designer finery, who would most......
'Kalnirnay is like a bible for any family.' Shakti Salgaonkar, executive director, Sumangal Group in a freewheeling chat with Satish Bodas/Rediff.com, discusses 50 years of Kalnirnay, a calendar......
Celebrated Indian-American novelist Ved Mehta, who overcame blindness and became widely known as the 20th-century writer most responsible for introducing American readers to India, has died at his......
'The prime minister's announcement of a nation-wide shutdown was eloquent, but should have been more clearly phrased to avoid police overreach.''Migrant labour should have been allowed adequate......
It's not easy to find an Argentinian wine on the shelves of local retailers. It's even harder to come by a mention of it in the conversations of Indian wine consumers, still hung up on French and......
Gary Mehigan will put the next batch of amateur cooks through their paces in MasterChef Australia, beginning September 10. In the popular cookery-based show, now in its fifth season, Gary and his......
'Once Attenborough had locked the shot, Jaffrey turned to Amitabh and told him in a very controlled but stern voice that he should never talk to an actor in between takes.' Aseem Chhabra remembers......
How difficult is it for a judge of a popular cooking show like Masterchef Australia to 'stop' eating and lose weight? Not very, says George Calombaris. The 33-year-old chef, who runs several......
'You made me realise that it is great to be brown, even if we are currently living under Donald Trump's false definition of America.''In my 36 years in America there have been few instances where I......
Rishi Desai, 35, originally from Kolhapur, Maharashtra, is one of the 22 contestants still in the running on the television cooking show, MasterChef Australia 2013. Rishi, who now lives in......