BJP youth worker's murder sparks tension in Karnataka

A BJP Yuva Morcha leader's killing by unidentified assailants led to tension at several places in Dakshina Kannada district in Karnataka on Wednesday, with instances of stone-pelting and police......

2020: Have the Gods Absconded?

Instead of its once haloed existence as the year of lofty goals and vision statements, it is now staring at an epitaph that may well read: The year when death ran amok and the gods went missing,......

Ram Jethmalani: A doyen of legal profession

Ram Jethmalani, a doyen of legal profession who bid adieu to the world at the age of 95, leaves behind a rich legacy of his seven-decade-long career when he was in action in scores of sensitive......

Gauri Lankesh laid to rest with state honours

The Karnataka government decided to form a Special Investigation Team to probe the killing even as the Union home ministry sought a report from the state government.......

How M S Oberoi became India's greatest hotelier

I was researching India's Industrialists when I met Mohan Singh Oberoi (1900-2002) for the first time. It was 1982, he was no longer a young man. Courtly as always, he offered to make my job......

Revisiting 1983 in Hindi Movies

Kapil Dev's historic World Cup win wasn't the only highlight of 1983. Sukanya Verma looks back how the year treated Bollywood. It was a year of excitement and extremes. If parallel cinema in India......

15 BEAUTIFUL stories, told on screen

Aseem Chhabra introduces us to the best of Berlinale. I usually spend 10 days of February in Berlin attending the Berlinale, the most exciting international film festival in Europe, in the early......

TOP 20 Indian Movies of the Decade

Sreehari Nair presents his Top 20 movies of the decade. The story of Indian Cinema in this decade pivots around the Nirbhaya Case of 2012. The sheer brutality of that incident coupled with the......

'I don't believe in marriage for religious reasons'

'Marriage is a practical solution in terms of bureaucracy, but it's not a real validation of whether your relationship is successful or not.' Photograph: Kind courtesy Kalki Koechlin/Instagram "My......

Remember these sporting moments?

As we sit at home and miss live action, the wondrous phenomenon of sport has delivered so many past glories that we will probably never run out of things to see, recalls Dhruv Munjal. IMAGE:......

Euro 2008: Spain squad

Penpix of Spain's 23-man squad for Euro 2008: Iker Casillas (Real Madrid). Goalkeeper. Born 20.5.81. Caps 75. Goals 0. The undisputed first choice, Casillas is the Spain captain and one of the......

'Unfair to Sachin'

Readers' responses toThe naked and the dead - Part 2: It was a very good article but I fail to understand why you missed bad umpiring I am sure the bad decisions played a very crucial role in the......

'Tendulkar has lost his fighting abilities'

Readers' responses toThe naked and the dead feature: It is SPOT ON.I feel we r saying this day only because of our seniors (namely Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar and VVS Laxman).Please make no......

'Ganguly batting in top gear can win games'

As part of a series of weekly chats on cricket, Prem Panicker appeared on the rediff Chat at 1300 EDT/1000 PDT on December 8. Following is a transcript of the chat. Transcript of Dec 1 chat: 'On......