Premiere: American Desi, a new show on Rediff IShare

Welcome to American Desi, a new video show on Rediff IShare. American Matthew Schneeberger has lived in Mumbai for three years now, fascinated by the city's endless curiosities and......

UK in the grip of 'Clegg-mania'

Poor David Cameron. How quickly things can change. Just a week ago, the leader of the United Kingdom's opposition Conservative Party was an overwhelming favourite to topple Gordon Brown's ruling......

V Ramakrishnan is India Abroad Person of the Year

For Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, the road to international public recognition was spotted with periods of doubt and uncertainty. True, he was a good student with a deep interest in science. But Venki,......

Mumbai a Global City? Not in this lifetime!

It's official. I've put to bed my absurd fantasy that Mumbai will become a 'Global City' by the year 2020. Maybe, hopefully, probably, one day. But not any time soon. After three years of watching......

California consumes more petrol than India!

Never ones to let raw facts get in the way of a good story, a familiar line spouted by Americans these days is, 'Why should the US curb energy consumption, when India and China are guzzling petrol......

Why IIT grads abroad are returning to India

Ashutosh Gupta, shortly after graduating from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, left for America holding a "one-way plane ticket" and little else. "At that time, in the early 1990s,......

Now, fly New York-Delhi in just 14 hours!

Air India on Friday launched its first non-stop flight from New York to Delhi. This is Air India's second active non-stop flight to India from JFK International airport. Air India had started its......

Inception: A sure blockbuster

In director Christopher Nolan's Inception, each of the dream-spelunking characters carries a totem, a personalised object used to differentiate reality from the world of dreams. A loaded six-sided......

Who is this Brett Ratner, anyway?

If you've managed to escape the publicity overdrive around last week's release Kites -- a film that has done far better abroad than it has in India -- you must be living under a rock and therefore,......

Kites: Indian-Mexican Bhelpuri with Salsa Sauce!

Kites received so many mixed reviews that we decided to ask you, our dear readers, to give us your take on the Hrithik Roshan-Barbara Mori starrer. After sifting through many entries, we decided to......

A dilemma for Americans, Kites or Kites Remixed?

Kites certainly did not soar last weekend in North America -- what the heck, according to the actual figures released on Monday evening, it did not even gross $1 million even though it was the......

WWE's Kane on sarees, curry and The Great Khali!

WWE superstar Kane may be a cold-hearted, ruthless monster in the ring, who chokeslams and powerbombs his opponents into submission. But if you want to make him blush from embarrassment, just ask......

Somdev sets NCAA record

Tripura native Somdev Dev Varman, set to turn professional later this year, continues to add to his impressive list of tennis accomplishments as an amateur. On Thursday, the 23-year-old University......

'They should have asked for 12 blondes'

For the two cheerleaders from London who have levelled charges of racism at event marketing company Wizcraft, their experience may have left them shaken but they insist it is not an "indictment" of......

Super Bowl 42 lives up to lofty billing

A consortium of shouts, whistles and cheers pours into my friend's apartment window on Manhattan's Upper Eastside: "Yea, baby!" "Go Giants!" "Boston sucks!" Peering out said window, I see drunken......

NBA finals: Spurs win Game 1

As predicted by the pundits, the San Antonio Spurs dispatched the Cleveland Cavaliers 85-76 in Game 1 of the NBA Championship finals in San Antonio, on Thursday night. The Spurs now need three more......