'We have to make people aware that the Constitution belongs to us.''We are the people who decide who will govern on our behalf.' Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com Vinay Kumar, 38, is an......
In an army that favours officers who have spent the bulk of their service years doing counter-insurgency operations in Jammu and Kashmir, General Anil Chauhan is that rarity: A China specialist who......
'We need to retell this history from many different perspectives.' Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com Writer Amitav Ghosh spent many of those strange, mind-numbing COVID-19 days of......
Did Vinod Sehgal die in Tsangdgar or was he taken PoW to China?Why has the IAF kept so quiet for all these years, asks Claude Arpi. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com One of the greatest......
Annabel Mehta, Sachin Tendulkar's mother-in-law, has dedicated her life to working with the Beautiful People of the other half of Mumbai without whom the city would neither exist nor......
'I'm not surprised with what's happening in India,' 'Tiger' Tyagarajan tells Nivedita Mookerji.Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com After days of deliberation on the venue for lunch, my guest......
'Has the time come to devise Version 2 of ad hoc T-bills?''In return, the government must agree to privatise all but five or six banks.''If something like this is not done, we will have governments......
William Nordhaus believes that climate change can best be addressed by ensuring the correct pricing for polluting resources like fuel through government intervention – in other words, through......
'There is no tried and true recipe for creating Silicon Valleys.''Attracting and creating a mass of truly dynamic entrepreneurs is at the core and among the hardest and most necessary......
What was the RBI doing, what was the PNB top management doing, what were the auditors doing, asks Debashis Basu. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com To the collective dismay of the public,......
Harry & Meghan, Vaihayasi Pande Daniel realises, is just a sequel to Diana's Story. Having watched the first three episodes of Harry & Meghan with quite some interest, Episode 4, when it started......
What is Shah Rukh Khan's life like? What is it *really* like to be a superstar? What's it really like to be loved by millions of fans all over the world? Khan may try to keep it as natural as he......
The 86th Annual Academy Awards have been announced. Here's a quick glance at the winners, listed in bold: Best Picture American HustleGravityTwelve Years A SlaveCaptain PhillipsDallas Buyers......
Imagine if Wolverine directed a movie himself. Now, try and get over the idea of Logan in a director's chair, snarling at heroines to make them cry convincingly, and think of the sort of movie the......
You may hurl insults at White Chicks. But the audience clearly enjoyed the film.While many critics groan and wonder why they have to endure a film like this, the crass comedy could turn the box......
Mercedes GP's Lewis Hamilton poses with Mercedes GP's Nico Rosberg and Infiniti Red Bull Racing's Daniel Ricciardo after claiming pole position. Photograph: Dan Istitene/Getty Images Lewis......
Novak Djokovic showed brief flashes of his best tennis as he began his bid for a third successive Australian Open title with a workmanlike 6-2, 6-4, 7-5 win over Paul-Henri Mathieu on Monday.......
\\nIt took less than two brutal hours at Wimbledon on Monday to disprove the theory that Serena and Venus Williams could march back to continue their domination of the grasscourt slam having hardly......
Third seed Maria Sharapova was floored at Wimbledonon Thursday by the daughter of a Greco-Roman wrestler. Ranked 154th in the world, Alla Kudryavtseva had barely registered on the tennis radar but......
Champion Venus Williams and second seed Rafael Nadal survived a few anxious moments to reach the third round of Wimbledon, while Lindsay Davenport bowed out without hitting a ball on Thursday.......