'Indian women want to take destiny in their hands'

Susan Seizer knows too well that the two-hour humourous acts which precede the all-night plays in rural Tamil Nadu are full of double meaning and upfront vulgarity. But she also knows the......

My Aunt Smita Patil

Smita Patil would have been 60 on October 17 had fate not cruelly snatched her from us in 1986. She was only 31 when she died. Rediff.com salutes the incomparable actress in a special series. In......