'We Are Destroying The Constitution'

'We have to make people aware that the Constitution belongs to us.''We are the people who decide who will govern on our behalf.' Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com Vinay Kumar, 38, is an......

CDS Is A China Specialist

In an army that favours officers who have spent the bulk of their service years doing counter-insurgency operations in Jammu and Kashmir, General Anil Chauhan is that rarity: A China specialist who......

'Humans have never learned from history'

'We need to retell this history from many different perspectives.' Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com   Writer Amitav Ghosh spent many of those strange, mind-numbing COVID-19 days of......

The Forgotten Hero of the Indian Air Force

Did Vinod Sehgal die in Tsangdgar or was he taken PoW to China?Why has the IAF kept so quiet for all these years, asks Claude Arpi. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com One of the greatest......

'Corona is a wake up call for all of us'

'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......

How to end the govt-RBI rift

'Has the time come to devise Version 2 of ad hoc T-bills?''In return, the government must agree to privatise all but five or six banks.''If something like this is not done, we will have governments......

What 2018 Economics Nobel means for growth-hungry India

William Nordhaus believes that climate change can best be addressed by ensuring the correct pricing for polluting resources like fuel through government intervention – in other words, through......

World Bank's Chief Economist: Can India create a Silicon Valley?

'There is no tried and true recipe for creating Silicon Valleys.''Attracting and creating a mass of truly dynamic entrepreneurs is at the core and among the hardest and most necessary......

BEAUTIFUL MOMENTS From SRK's Life

What is Shah Rukh Khan's life like? What is it *really* like to be a superstar? What's it really like to be loved by millions of fans all over the world? Khan may try to keep it as natural as he......

Oscars 2014: Matthew McConaughey, Cate Blanchett win top awards

The 86th Annual Academy Awards have been announced. Here's a quick glance at the winners, listed in bold: Best Picture American HustleGravityTwelve Years A SlaveCaptain PhillipsDallas Buyers......

Wolverine: All action, no heart

Imagine if Wolverine directed a movie himself. Now, try and get over the idea of Logan in a director's chair, snarling at heroines to make them cry convincingly, and think of the sort of movie the......

White Chicks is crude but funny!

You may hurl insults at White Chicks. But the audience clearly enjoyed the film.While many critics groan and wonder why they have to endure a film like this, the crass comedy could turn the box......

India to play two-day day-night tour match in Australia

  IMAGE: India are set to play a five-match Test series in Australia, starting in Perth in November. Photograph: BCCI The visiting Indian cricket team will play a two-day day-night tour match......

PIX: France Wows With Spectacular Olympics Opening

IMAGE: A balloon carrying the lit Olympic cauldron flies at Jardin des Tuileries during the opening ceremony. Photograph: Marko Djurica/Reuters The city of Paris transformed into a colossal......

Hamilton edges Rosberg to secure Singapore pole

Mercedes GP's Lewis Hamilton poses with Mercedes GP's Nico Rosberg and Infiniti Red Bull Racing's Daniel Ricciardo after claiming pole position. Photograph: Dan Istitene/Getty Images Lewis......

Aus Open: Djokovic wins opener with hat-trick in sight

Novak Djokovic showed brief flashes of his best tennis as he began his bid for a third successive Australian Open title with a workmanlike 6-2, 6-4, 7-5 win over Paul-Henri Mathieu on Monday.......

Williams sisters, Wozniacki crash out of Wimbledon

\\nIt took less than two brutal hours at Wimbledon on Monday to disprove the theory that Serena and Venus Williams could march back to continue their domination of the grasscourt slam having hardly......