By sacrificing an important component of the right to free speech, we have strengthened the hands of the fundamentalists, the bigots and the publicity-seeking goondas. And of the hate-filled......
'The casting of a popular hero Ranveer as Bhansali's Khilji sends out an erroneous and contradictory missive to the lay public; a message that tends to equate a leading light with a notorious and......
Rather than talking about Khajuraho and Shikhandi, the argument should be about a Constitution that promised rights to all, says Mihir S Sharma In many ways, the ecstatic response to the Delhi high......
An erotic book dubbed as 'mummy porn' has beaten the J K Rowling authored Harry Potter's record in the United Kingdom's book sales chart, becoming the fastest selling paperback of all time in just......
A fresh look at the Mona Lisa portrait has revealed that artist Leonardo da Vinci has hidden some tiny letters and numbers in the dark paint of the masterpiece pupils.Experts say the barely......
It is a typical 'Dilbert' strip. The boss announces, "Our CEO has voluntarily slashed his pay from $6 million per year to $4 million. In a written statement, he said he wants to 'share the pain.'......
It was a year of conquest in Hollywood. The worldwide box office soared to a record Rs 1.2 trillion, buoyed by global blockbusters like Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and......
First it beat logic. Now it has beaten imagination also. We are talking about natural rubber prices in Kerala. It seems even The Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown will not be able to decode the......
For female media executives breaking through the glass ceiling, times have never been more stressful, with the entire sector undergoing a seismic shift. More consumers are buying their......
Most of us in India associate Switzerland with the famous Hindi flick Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge. Many other Yash Chopra films followed which not only captured the imagination of Indian audiences......
The Kerala Story is among a long list of films that invited bans and censorship. The Bharatiya Janata Party-led Uttar Pradesh government announced on May 9, 2023 that the film The Kerala Story......
Salman Khan's protege and Notebook actor Zaheer Iqbal is enjoying he national lockdown. He tells Patcy N/Rediff.com,, "I have taken a break from everything -- from working out and diet." How is......
When Pritish Nandy interviewed Kishore Kumar for The Illustrated Weekly Of India, Asia's oldest and most venerable magazine, it was a stunner. Posing with a skull on the Weekly's cover, the great......
When Pritish Nandy interviewed Kishore Kumar for The Illustrated Weekly of India, Asia's oldest and most venerable magazine, it was a stunner. Posing with a skull on the Weekly's cover, the great......
'For Shoojit Sircar, the story he wants to tell is more important. His choice of a subject in not based on viability of the film.' 'Amitabh Bachchan seems like an enthusiastic student who......
IMAGE: India hockey goalkeeper PR Sreejesh, right, with Rupinder Pal Singh at the SAI Centre in Bengaluru. Photograph: PR Sreejesh/Instagram Locked inside the Sports Authority of India centre in......
IMAGE: Serena Williams of the United States plays a forehand during the Ladies Singles third round match against Annika Beck of Germany. Photograph: Adam Pretty/Getty Images. World No 1 Serena......
IMAGE: Marin Cilic celebrates after defeating Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. Photograph: Clive Brunskill/Getty Images Defending champion Marin Cilic and unseeded Roberta Vinci were the first through to the......
Vijender Singh continues to scale new heights. The Beijing Olympics bronze medallist was given top billing in the middleweight category while three Indians were also seeded for the World Boxing......
After ruling the chess world for nearly 20 years now, Viswanathan Anand is rightly regarded as one of the greats of the 64-squares game.In the last few years, he has captured almost every title......