'Hindus are proud of what the Dharmashastras symbolise, but they don't want to do any work to preserve it!,' Sanskrit scholar Donald Davis tells Kanika Dutta.Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com......
It was an entirely vegetarian fare at the lunch hosted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his Australian counterpart Malcolm Turnbull on Monday. The lunch held at Hyderabad House was a 14-course......
People on both sides of the Hindutva debate need to read and understand the texts first, Bibek Debroy, translator of the unabridged Mahabharata, tells Kanika Datta as he gets started on a similar......
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vegetarian tastes were well catered for at Chequers, the British prime minister’s country residence in Buckinghamshire, where he was served dishes like......
An economist from Kashmir and a popular face from the RSS/BJP craftily wove an alliance in what is one of the most difficult agenda-setting exercises in recent history. Sheela......
'I'm not surprised with what's happening in India,' 'Tiger' Tyagarajan tells Nivedita Mookerji.Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com After days of deliberation on the venue for lunch, my guest......
'Industry observers are certain the next attempt will succeed even if they have to browbeat someone into buying as the government has put its might behind it,' predicts Anjuli Bhargava. Aviation......
Till high school, his medium of learning was Marathi.Later, he completed his doctorate under Neil Armstrong's guidance.He has travelled to close to 50 countries, sold $350 billion worth of......
'I feel more like a chess player, thinking for long hours how to make the next move," Telecom Secretary Aruna Sundararajan tells Surajeet Das Gupta.Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com She says......
'We will have a well-designed product, and not a compromise.''We will make a completely contemporary vehicle, in keeping with consumers' aspirations, not like the Nano, which disappointed them,'......
He's styled some of the most gorgeous women on screen, and after his work with IPL's Kolkata Knight Riders, is experimenting with track pants as evening-wear.It was day-night one-day cricket that......
Bollywood's blue-eyed girl Karisma Kapoor has tiedthe knot with Sunjay Kapur. The wedding ceremony, which was to take place at 11 am, wasdelayed because the groom was stuck in traffic. Sunjay......
Deepti PatwardhanStanding in a corner at Polly's bar at the Cricket Club of India in Mumbai, one hand resting on the glass case of cricket memorabilia, Michael Clarke shuffles so much that it looks......