After steering the Rediff mothership for close to 29 years, Ajit Balakrishnan, founder, chairman and CEO, did what few businessmen in this country do -- R-E-T-I-R-E. On August 2, 2024, we were......
'William Mustoe, the director of horticulture during British rule, named the Presidential Palace garden after the Mughals.' 'He simply kept the name because it was made on the pattern of a Mughal......
'Aurangzeb supported construction of the Kumarswamy math and the reconstruction of the Kedar temple and supported the Jangambadi math in Banaras.' IMAGE: The Gyanvapi mosque in Varanasi.......
'I have never seen such a large parade being commanded with such precision just by a vocal word of command.''I would like to import this technology to England.'IAF Veteran Air Commodore Nitin......
The AIADMK's staying power is not in question, but it has to regain the winning streak.That will require its leaders and leadership to re-wire themselves, to be able to re-think situations in ways......
R K Krishna Kumar, one of the stalwarts of the Tata group, passed away on Sunday, January 1, 2023, evening. A close lieutenant of then Tata Sons chairman Ratan Tata, he spoke to Rediff.com's......
Why doesn't anybody ask the PSU State Bank of India under RTI on how much they are spending on legal fees trying to recover money from me in the UK when I have offered 100 per cent payback in......
In EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager, who has kickstarted the long-pending anti-trust investigation into Google, the internet search giant may have finally met its match. My kids or......
Sree Sreenivasan recalls his encounters with the pioneer of sound who passed away on Friday and gives a sense of how many lives he touched -- in big and small ways. There are two......
Was descending into the telling of only Diana's tale in four long, slightly-draggy soap-opera-ish episodes of the last season the original premise of The Crown? asks Vaihayasi Pande Daniel. IMAGE:......
It's addictive. It's entertaining. It's gorgeous. Once bitten by the K-drama bug, there's no going back. A binge worthy mix of style and substance, South Korea's small-screen wave, which hit......
'So we automatically connect.''I can talk to her whatever I want to and she does the same to me.''She inspires me and gives me strength.' Photograph: Kind courtesy Ankita Lokhande/Instagram Ankita......
Goodbye makes ordinary places, ordinary people and ordinary events become interesting, observes Mayur Sanap. Film-makers love to see the excruciating beauty in human grief. Using the backdrop of a......
I cannot think of another Hindi movie that has, without so much as a hint of cynicism or speechifying, brought out that fundamental fact of Muslims being an integral part of the Indian culture......
IMAGE: Game 5 ended in a draw after 40 moves of play at the 2024 FIDE World Championship between D Gukesh and Ding Liren. Photographs: Maria Emelianova/FIDE Indian challenger D Gukesh played out......
'Celebrating a man who was convicted for assaulting his partner sends a dangerous message – that domestic abuse is not taken seriously as a crime.' IMAGE: Geoffrey Boycott scored over 8,000......
Former British Prime Minister Theresa May has chosen former cricketer Geoffrey Boycott for a knighthood, honouring her hero whose persistent style she had vowed to emulate in her ultimately failed......
'We are truly blessed to bear witness to the divine talents of, and scarcely human displays put on by, Roger Federer and his bromance buddy, rival, nemesis and plausible co-claimant to GOAT......
A round-up of all the results from the 17th World Athletic Championships in London IMAGE: Tori Bowie of the United States trips as she crosses the finish line to win the Women's 100 Metres Final......