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Biggest blizzard in years blankets US east coast

A massive winter storm has pummelled the United States' east coast, grounding flights, shuttering vaccination sites in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and New York and affecting 60 million people. A......

A New Yorker writes about a slum in Mumbai

Beyond The Beautiful Forevers provides a fascinating and horrifying glimpse into a world that is rarely written about. Rediff.com's P Rajendran reports on a New York event to promote Katherine......

111-year-old US man crowned world's oldest

A 111-year-old US man has been crowned the world's oldest living man by the Guinness World Records. Guinness announced Dr Alexander Imich, a parapsychologist and retired chemist, from the New York......

US: Indian woman hurls toddler, self into river

A depressed Indian-origin women threw her 19-month-old daughter into the chilly Hudson River and then jumped in behind her in a murder-suicide attempt to get back at her husband, prosecutors said......

Down to the wire

At 4.11 pm August 14, the lights went off in our 24th Street office. By 4.20, we were out on the street, discovering the lights had gone off in the entire neighborhood.By 4.30, the crowd outside......

How to mix business and friendship

One luxury of being your own boss is choosing the people you work with. Just ask the folks at Google, Yahoo! and Boston Scientific. These are but a few large companies launched by friends who took......

What you can buy with $1 million

There was a time when $1 million could buy an urban penthouse, a waterfront villa, even a mountain chalet. But those days are a thing of the past, according to Liam Bailey, head of residential......

How they changed the face of Corporate America

Asuncion 'Sunny' Hostin, slim and stylish in a black wrap-around sweater, shows up 30 minutes late for her meeting at an upscale caf on Manhattan's Upper West Side. She's unruffled, though, and......

Indian hoteliers make it big in America

Sant Singh Chatwal did not exactly bootstrap his way up America's lodging industry by starting at a modest roadside motel, as have so many immigrants. His first fixer-upper hotel was in Manhattan,......

The Rediff Review: Rosemary's Baby

Rosemary's Baby, showing now in New York, was originally made in 1968. It was an unusual horror film for the time, in that it used humour and a knowing satirical edge to depict Satanism in a......

Can a man and a woman be 'friends' without having sex?

As Imtiaz Ali's Jab Harry Met Sejal releases, Aseem Chhabra feels it's the best time to revisit the Hollywood classic When Harry Met Sally, which tries to answer the question in the title of this......

Watching The Clock at MoMa

New York City’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) showcased The Clock, a meticulous effort showing clocks and watches from thousands of films from the last 100 years of cinema.It is 7.45 am when......

How I will remember Sadhana

'Her death has left a small hole in me. That little space that her songs and her screen image always filled in me. She had not worked in films for years, but somehow I always sensed she was there,......

Why Mira Nair's Films Speak To Me

Mira's films are alive, rocking and so true to the reality I know.They are gifts that I keep revisiting, and I cannot wait for what more she will share with us, notes Aseem Chhabra. IMAGE:......

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