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Rediff's Wave Rider Retires!

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......

The Punjabis Are Fleeing

There's an entire gurdwara dedicated to immigration.People present tiny airliner models here in the hope that Waheguru will soon give them a ticket, passport and visa to leave, reveals Shekhar......

How June 25, 1983 Changed India Forever

That win gave us something no other victory ever would: It gave a young nation hope. It gave us the will to dream, notes Abhishek Mande Bhot. IMAGE: Kapil Dev holds aloft the World Cup on the......

To Those Who Fought The Good Fight

The fight for freedom was long and hard and that is why it is important to go back to the monuments that celebrate those who fought the good fight. IMAGE: Built in 1892, the Aga Khan Palace in......

Why The Army Can't Fight In Manipur

For the most battle-hardened, specialised and successful counter-insurgency army in the world, this is an unfamiliar, first-time experience of dealing with the north east's deepest complexities,......

The farmer in the farm loan waiver

Beyond the macro data, there has been little enquiry into the profile of the indebted farmer households, says Shailesh Dobhal. Why an award-winning farmer is contemplating suicide IMAGE: A new......

COLUMN: Legitimising myths about gold imports

The massive buyers of gold in the past two years have not been distressed farmers or manual scavengers, notes Ajit Balakrishnan. When an economic crisis hits, everyone goes looking for someone to......

Mining ban sees a new, cleaner Goa

Anyone who has read even a few of my columns would know that I go to Goa a lot. The mood, the food, the feni (of course) and, ultimately, the sea, the palm trees, the bougainvillea and the clean,......

Column: Will China rule the world?

If China attains economic predominance, democracy may well lose its lustre as the global norm, writes Dani Rodrik. Thirty years ago, China had a tiny footprint on the global economy and little......

Why the Indian economy is like Rohit Sharma

Even a doomsayer like Nouriel Roubini says India is in a sweet spot. If only we'd live up to the promise, says Shekhar Gupta. IMAGE: Rohit Sharma in full flow in an ODI against the Aussies. The......

Love, Sitara Review: Confused Drama

Love, Sitara doesn't flesh out the people or their problems enough to give us a glimpse into their minds, observes Sukanya Verma. Love, Sitara starts off by quoting Leo Tolstoy's opening line from......

Pictures From Swara Bhasker's Wedding

Swara Bhasker made a radiant bride, dressed in red, when she married Samajwadi Party politician and TISS alumnus Fahad Ahmad. The couple registered the marriage in court, and Swara shared pictures......

The Comic Who Found Humour In Everyday Life

IMAGE: Raju Srivastav, who passed into the ages on Wednesday, September 21, 2022. Photograph: Kind courtesy Raju Srivastav/Instagram The first brush of fame came as an Amitabh Bachchan......

The Johnny Depp-Amber Heard Fight So Far

How the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard relationship evolved and dissolved. IMAGE: Johnny Depp with his then fiancee Amber Heard at the 2014 Met Gala. Photograph: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images When......

Feels Like Ishq review

At the end of the six short stories, Feels Like Ishq is uneven yet watchable, feels Sukanya Verma. Feels Like Ishq evokes Modern Love. It doesn't have the range or emotion of the romantic-comedy......

Bowlers using back sweat instead of saliva to shine ball

'Back sweat has been the major thing at the moment with saliva going out the window.' IMAGE: Ben Stokes bowls during Day 2 of the first Test against West Indies in Southampton, on Friday.......

Longest EPL season set for nerve-racking climax

IMAGE: Liverpool's Brazilian trio Alisson, Firmino and Fabinho thank the almighty in celebration. Photograph: Laurence Griffiths/Pool via Reuters Three hundred and fifty-three days since......

Another twist in Sania-Shoaib wedding drama

The Shoaib Malik-Ayesha Siddiqui controversy took another turn on Friday when the Siddiqui family released, what they claimed, the marriage certificate of the Pakistani cricketer's 2002 'wedding'......

'My destiny was to write about the game'

'That has always been my ambition -- to take the reader behind the scenes, to the places he was not allowed to visit, but which I had the privilege of entering.'Haresh Pandya remembers Ted Corbett,......

Shoaib's past will do him no good: Akram

Former Pakistan captain Wasim Akram has wished Shoaib Malik and Sania Mirza a happy married life but he feels the all-rounder's controversial past involving an alleged first wife Ayesha Siddiqui......

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