The meteor who blazed across a revolutionary sky

'George Fernandes was an innocent among the cut-throats and pickpockets who infest the political jungle.''He was too good a man to achieve spectacular success in the game of thrones,' notes Sunanda......

WB CM Mamata wants to acquire Tagore's home in London

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee wants to acquire the London house where Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore had lived, and convert it into a museum-cum-memorial to the world-famous poet......

Indira Gandhi: Goddess and her terror turn

Forty years after the declaration of Emergency by Indira Gandhi, Sunanda K Datta-Ray recalls life when civil rights were suspended and press censorship was in force Silver-haired and baby-faced,......

'I brought life into yoga, I made it very lively'

Yogacharya BKS Iyengar, the last of the legendary yoga gurus, passed into the ages on August 20, 2014. He would have turned 96 on December 14. In an interview he had granted Rediff.com in......

Curbing costly CEOs!

As presidents and prime ministers discuss top corporate packages in London, New York and Pittsburgh, I am reminded of a hallowed British Indian firm (now, alas! gone up in smoke) whose Number One,......

Of MPs, fudged expenses and what India spends on them

Dawn was breaking over the Palace of Westminster, Britain's Houses of Parliament, as tired MPs and journalists waited in the taxi queue in the great courtyard after an all-night debate on the Race......

Mittal sued over world's costliest house

NRI steel baron Lakshmi Niwas Mittal faces prospects of high court action over the purchase of a 70-million 12-bedroom house in the posh Kensington Palace in London, after a property consultant......

Sumantra Ghoshal dead

Management guru, leading economist and founding dean of the Indian School of Business Hyderabad, Dr Sumantra Ghoshal, passed away in Hampstead, United Kingdom, on Wednesday due to brain......

Game of Thrones devotee? Score the characters II

The ultimate good guy, bad guy ranking for your favourite TV show!Game of Thrones 5 is now being aired in India simultaneously with its US telecast.While Indian GoT devotees are kicked beyond......

Aishwarya's favourite city? Click here to see!

'The hotel room number can never total up to 8.' 'I fly First Class and won’t take a pre-9am flight.' Bollywood's travel fetishes. Movie stars travel very frequently, on work and......

George Michael arrested after car crash

Pop icon George Michael was reportedly arrested after his car crashed into a shop on the night of London's Gay Pride Parade. The 47-year-old gay hitmaker was held on suspicion of being unfit to......

The new Khan bahu

Bollywood star Fardeen Khan got engaged to Natasha, the daughter of former actress Mumtaz, at a private function in London on May 5."I am very happy with the engagement of my daughter to Fardeen.......

Fans greet Pakistan players with rotten tomatoes

Reacting angrily to the match-fixing allegations, fans greeted the Pakistan cricket team with boos, jeers and pelted the team bus with rotten tomatoes as they used the stadium's back gate after......

Sania in final

Sania Mirza reached her second successive singles final after thrashing eighth seed Hannah Collins of Great Britain 6-2, 6-3 in the US $10,000 ITF women's tennis event in Hampstead, London, on......

Wenger brings out the best in Henry

Once known for his blinding pace and little else, France's Thierry Henry arrives at Euro 2004 next month as probably the best all-round striker in world football.Now considered by FIFA as one of......