The Supreme Court passes judgment, even as five states have banned the film.
'The screening of the movie might hurt the religious feelings and sentiments of the Christian community.'
The Kerala Story is among a long list of films that invited bans and censorship.
The court stays the ban on the controversial film.
The Priyanka-Rahul Gandhi Brigade has announced the reward
"By no stretch of imagination can we say that the effect of the film was intrinsically dangerous to public interest," the judge said.
The hotly-anticipated Warner Brothers film is creating a lot of buzz.
Tom Hanks and director Ron Howard will have a tough time filming two key scenes in their new flick Angels and Demons, based on Dan Brown's novel of the same name, for the Vatican has banned them from entering the Holy See and any church in Rome.
I see an interesting pattern emerging, linking the dramatis personae of the UPA government and Team India, says M R Venkatesh.
the Vatican has asked a senior cardinal to debunk the novel, which it believes was deliberately written to discredit the Roman Catholic Church through "absurd and vulgar lies".
Are we as a people losing our liberalism? Have your say.
Thanks to some inexplicable reasons, rubber futures contracts are witnessing a steep fall for the past few days. This has also hit the spot marker now with prices of benchmark grade RSS 4 dropping below Rs 90 a kg to close at Rs 87 on Friday.
Amazon.com, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary, announced its biggest sellers yesterday; Rowling was no surprise at No 1.
By sacrificing an important component of the right to free speech, we have strengthened the hands of the fundamentalists, the bigots and the publicity-seeking goondas. And of the hate-filled political establishment, points out Vir Sanghvi.
Reading books will make you curious, build your imagination and nourish your brain into an organic super power.
This list goes ahead to prove that people still love the touristy spots!
Bestselling author Dan Brown spoke at the Penguin Annual Lecture in Mumbai on November 12. Snapshots from the evening
Master urban planner and architect Le Corbusier's principles of light, space and greenery are still evident everywhere in Chandigarh. Geetanjali Krishna finds a haven in the city.
'The casting of a popular hero Ranveer as Bhansali's Khilji sends out an erroneous and contradictory missive to the lay public; a message that tends to equate a leading light with a notorious and treacherous player of medieval history,' notes Vivek Gumaste.
Pritish Nandy's interview of Kishore Kumar for The Illustrated Weekly Of India was a stunner.
It's hard to look back now and remember the exact quality of the excitement that the first Harry Potter book generated, the astonishment and delight with which we read about a boy wizard discovering Quidditch and battling Voldemort at Hogwarts.
It's hard to look back now and remember the exact quality of the excitement that the first Harry Potter book generated, the astonishment and delight with which we read about a boy wizard discovering Quidditch and battling Voldemort at Hogwarts.
On Kishore Kumar's 86th birthday, we revisit a Rediff.com exclusive special by Pritish Nandy on the late legend.