Akbar is rumoured to have once asked the navratnas of his court what the greatest pleasure in the world was. The stock answers came back: wealth, power, women, food, wine and so on, with the emperor's own contribution being hunting. Birbal was the outlier; he asserted that the greatest pleasure in the world was surely a good bowel movement.
'It's a humiliating time to be a human being.' It's a pity that the magnificent 17-year-old gorilla is dead. But it's not enough to hang our heads in shame or comfort ourselves with clicktivism, observes Bijoy Venugopal.
The beef ban has sparked considerable debate and confusion
Full text of Kevin Pieterse's Pataudi Memorial Lecture in Bengaluru
'Chinese real GDP growth is 7.1% and India's is 7.4%'.
Auto major Mahindra launches yet another SUV, and Rajesh Karkera/Rediff.com puts its through the paces.
A guide to where you can't use the selfie stick.
'I don't give a f****. I am old enough now.' 'You just have to white-knuckle it and ride through it.' 'But really, who cares?' 'At the end of the day, just get on, feel the pain, embrace the suck.'
Sukanya Verma shares her exciting filmi week with us!
The magical land of Changthang in Ladakh is the stuff of dreams, though it might be losing its pristine beauty to the onslaught of tourists and campers.
'This slender yet joyous film introduces so many fresh insanities and has such an endless stream of wisecracking that it takes on shades of a running ballad,' notes Sreehari Nair.
Once a rage on Indian roads, the Yezdi motorcyle and its cult are stronger than ever
Equity markets are currently difficult to gauge as the market has probably priced in a lot of things ahead of actual events.
A weekend in the beautiful sleepy town of Mukteshwar is just what you need to bust your stress, says Suchismita Banerjee.
Avoid these for your own safety as well as those on the roads
A clash of contrasting styles, the ICC World T20 final in Kolkata on Sunday gives both England and the West Indies a chance to create history.
Vir Das' commencement address to graduates of Knox College is the best advice you'll read today.
How many of the 354 films Aseem Chhabra watched in 2017 have you seen?
'With increasing use of social media for instant communication, the armed services better find a quick solution to the new challenge they face or else continue to remain on the back foot despite doing sterling work in combating the proxy war in Kashmir.'
If I were to review it in one word, I'd say Ek Villain is... Unnecessary, writes Raja Sen.
NH10 is a scary, compelling ride featuring an actress who surpasses herself, says Raja Sen.
A hard, unrelenting film that doesn't give in to over-sentimentality, Citylights is like the city of Mumbai -- it beats you down and when you are broken, takes you in its arms and loves you. Suparn Verma, who has directed films like Aatma, Acid Factory and Ek Khiladi and Ek Haseena, raves about the film.
Director Gareth Edwards delivers a satisfactory reboot of the iconic monster movie, Godzilla.
Here's a fresh collection of the truly weird, true and funny news from around the world.
For Make in India's success, Modi govt msut remove policy paralysis.
Rediff reader Subin Mohan from Dubai, talks about owning a Royal Enfield.
Planning to buy the Nexus 6P? Read this first
Umrika, which won the audience award in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition section at the Sundance Film Festival in 2015, finally releases in India.
Perhaps Arvind Kejriwal got it right when he described the party as Shivji ki baraat. In other words, without the pejorative sense associated with it, a ragtag. New, and new to the business of government, it is faltering, notes Mahesh Vijapurkar.
Pacific Rim is possibly the best and the grandest belated gift a man can offer his childhood, writes Sukanya Verma.
Meet Mona Patel, one of CNN's Top 10 Heroes of the Year.
Jeremy Irons considered maths 'very boring' till he read G H Hardy's A Mathematician's Apology. The actor, who plays the British mathematician in The Man Who Knew Infinity, talks numbers, acting and his legacy with Aseem Chhabra/Rediff.com.
'I have been tagged the next superstar for a long time, but I have not reached that stage.' 'So it's very important to accept your failures, not be in denial.' 'Those films happened because I chose them.' 'Nobody put a gun to my head and asked me to sign them.'
Endless cases, piles of files, meagre resources and unrelenting scrutiny... the CBI's life story is all that and more, says Ruchika Chitravanshi
Krrish 3 is a outrageous mishmash of Bollywood sentimentality meets E.T. meets Superman meets X-Men.
A grieving Pakistan's policy shift towards the Taliban has comes at a great cost, says Shahzad Raza.
Himanshu Juneja takes a closer look to find out what the phablet from Xiaomi is all about.
Meet the Indian-American comedian behind Homecoming King, which has become the toast of Netlix.
Finding Fanny strikes gold, raves Raja Sen.
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