'This government choked Kashmiris'

'Ruling Kashmir with fear has its price.' IMAGE: Security personnel outside the Jamia Masjid in Srinagar on Eid, May 13, 2021. Photograph: Umar Ganie for Rediff.com "It would be wrong to presume......

Valmikis of Jammu win 63-yr-long battle for domicile

Sixty-three years after their arrival in Jammu and Kashmir as 'sanitary workers' on the request of the then government, members of Valmiki community are finally hopeful of a bright future for their......

Did you know Kabir Bedi's mother was a monk?

She lived for two-thirds of her life in India, adopted its national cause and customs, and took an Indian passport.She served a prison sentence in Lahore as part of Gandhi's protests against an......

Playing for dangerously high stakes in volatile Kashmir

'As of now, this one move seems to have precariously altered the balance of forces on the volatile ground, between separatists and the mainstream. 'The landscape today presents a fearsome picture......

Tere Sur Aur Mere Geet: When Music was King

Film music flourished in the 1970s. Some old masters did some great work, but it was also the decade of new composers.A fascinating excerpt from Amit Khanna's Words. Sounds. Images: A History Of......

The ULTIMATE Lata Mangeshkar playlist

Nightingale of India. Greatest Indian Singer ever. Goddess Saraswati incarnate. Hyperbole becomes Lata Mangeshkar. No amount of praise is lavish enough to describe the supremacy of her voice as it......

How well do you know Lata Mangeshkar?

Lata Mangeshkar, India's nightingale, turns 75 today, September 28. Happy Birthday Latadidi! How much do you know about the living legend? Take this quiz and find out! 1. What is Lata Mangeshkar's......