JLF Day 2 Diary: 'Glad Rushdie didn't make it to the fest'

Rediff.com's Abhishek Mande, who is attending the Jaipur Literature Festival, brings forth all the details of a 'rather slow' Day 2 of the festival. When Day One of a literature festival is as......

'20th century saw high ideals, terrible slaughter'

By the time you read this, Ken Follett will be back in England, hard at work on his next magnum opus, The Winter Of The World. The second part of his century-spanning trilogy is due in 2012, and......

Benazir's disrupted dream

Benazir Bhutto left the world in 2007, but she will keep shining on the international scene with a new agenda in 2008. Benazir wanted to bridge the Muslim world with the West. That was her greatest......

Big business houses eye stake in Living Media

Big business is eyeing the media space once again.Just four months after Reliance Industries invested in the Network 18 group in a multi-layered deal, leading business houses, including the Aditya......

Why Lisa Ray quit Bollywood

'I wasn't interested in shackling my freedom to a Bollywood actor.'A fascinating excerpt from Lisa Ray's memoir Close To The Bone. IMAGE: Lisa Ray and John Abraham in Water. I was still being......

Smita Patil: The Woman Behind the Image

'Smita had it all planned out. She was pregnant then and planning to leave Raj Babbar after the baby was born.' In an enthralling new book Smita Patil, A Brief Incandescence (HarperCollins),......

Marilyn Monroe's rare pics up for auction

Marilyn Monroe’s 3,700 unpublished images and a treasure trove of photos of movie icons Steve Mcqueen, Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor will go under the hammer in Los Angeles next month.......

Bollywood's Sexiest Cover Gals of 2010

2010 spoke business with Bollywood's hottest divas striking their best pose while flaunting the latest trends in fashion, month after month. With a spate of Indian and International......

From Tokyo to Paris: Trans athletes face new hurdles, restrictions

IMAGE: French sprinter Halba Diouf feels she is being marginalised and hounded after her dream of participating at next year's Paris Olympics was shattered when World Athletics (WA) banned......

How the Women in Blue make India proud

The celebrations after the 2017 World Cup went on for the next few months.But there was one question that the Indian cricketers failed to respond to in their interviews. 'What was their next......