'Muslims and Dalits must erase the way they remember their past, or carry out their performances in private,' says Jyoti Punwani, as Maharashtra's Censor Board denies permission to a play Jai......
It is a dark legacy bequeathed by Nehru to India. In its DNA lies the subconscious fount of India's schizophrenic geopolitics that forsook in one sweep all its historically-entrenched strategic......
Special Judge O P Saini, hearing the 2G spectrum scam, has set a record of sorts with an unwieldy sentence running into 29 pages in the order he passed on October 22, framing charges against former......
This is what you call LUCK. In a fortunate-dramatic turn of events, a Nepal-born servant has inherited the multi-crore -- no les than Rs 40 crore --apartment of a reclusive star in the United......
In V V Ganeshananthan's thought-provoking and moving first novel Love Marriage, Kumaran, a dying former Tamil Tiger, triggers a series of reactions in his last days that provoke some people close......
Since the government cannot privatise public sector banks, the central bank should force it to let the bad ones fail, says Arvind Subramanian, senior fellow, Peterson Institute for International......
'Who better than the flag bearer of celluloid romance to inspire a depressed, desolate heart?' asks Sukanya Verma of Gauri Shinde's fine film. Sad and sleepless is nothing unusual for a......
Reporting from the recently concluded International Film Festival of Kerala, Rajeev Srinivasan writes about two particularly striking films that were screened at the fest.The 17th International......
Rajneesh Gupta picks more instances of sledging which backfired spectacularly. Part 1: When sledging backfired... Yuvraj Singh vs Andrew Flintoff IMAGE: Yuvraj Singh hit six sixes in a single......
Srinivas Bhogle and Purnendu Maji present the final Rediff.com Most Valuable Players ratings for the World Cup. Image: Mitchell Starc was the Player of the Tournament, but he ranks only 5th on......
A B de Villiers still heads Rediff.com's Most Valuable Players ratings for the World Cup... The highest Indian is Umesh Yadav at 14, followed by Mohammed Shami, at 19. Srinivas Bhogle and Purnendu......
Martin Guptill, who hit New Zealand's first double century in ODIs, has emerged as an unlikely contender to challenge A B de Villiers in Rediff.com's Most Valuable Players ratings for the ICC World......
Captain Elton Chigumbura hit a fluent half-century as Zimbabwe secured a shock three-wicket win over Australia in the triangular series on Sunday. Zimbabwe’s only previous success against the......