How yoga came to the UN

Image: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon (centre) does the Vrikshasana (tree pose) with his wife on International Yoga Day. Photograph: Paresh Gandhi/Rediff.com It was almost 10 years ago that the......

India-born author Manil Suri wins 'Bad Sex in Fiction Award'

Indian-born author Manil Suri has bagged this year's Bad Sex in Fiction Award, a dubious distinction given annually by Britain's 'Literary Review'. A cosmic-themed threesome in his latest novel,......

Manil Suri: India should be sensible. Pakistan is very dysfunctional

Novelist Manil Suri tells Rediff.com's Savera R Someshwar why India needs to avoid a full-blown hostile reaction to Pakistan. I look at the sign for Crawford Market behind me, still smouldering......

Mira Nair speaks about Obama's win

On the night America elected its first black President, I sobbed all alone on the couch. Earlier in the week I'd refused invitations to parties planned by optimistic friends because I was afraid......

Lost in translation

In a few weeks when Manil Suri, a professor of mathematics at the University of Maryland, will begin promoting his new book The Age of Shiva, some of his fans may want to revisit his first book The......