Serena Williams signalled she is not quite ready for retirement advancing to the second round of the US Open on Monday with a scrappy 6-3, 6-3 win over Danka Kovinic.
These gorgeous women have given some brilliant performances this year.
In terms of longevity, Mithali Raj's 23-year-old international career is also awe-inspiring and rivals Sachin Tendukar's 24-year-run at the top of his game.
A copious amount of blood, beating, crying, saving, sacrificing, nationalism fills up its staggering three hours running time. Emotions run sky high, but you feel nothing, sighs Sukanya Verma.
'It would have been easy to play Danny like a bad guy, but then, at the end, the audience might well have said, "Why is Latika still stuck with this ass**** when he is giving her so much grief?"'
Sukanya Verma raises a toast to the man and his movie magic.
A bit of economic reforms stalled and decisions delayed -- what Narayana Murthy spoke of -- don't hurt if a country's compassionate and inclusive social fabric has survived intact; if the country is happy, observes Shyam G Menon.
A 1990s Bollywood album. Ranbir Kapoor as Balraj Sahni. Dimple Kapadia's Crowning Glory days. Agha-Mukri-Kesto's fun, fabulous, forgotten friendship. Sukanya Verma's super-filmi week was a complete blast from the past.
Pant, whose rapid 146 put India in the box seat, was more restrained in the second innings.
Joginder Tuteja goes back in time to see the biggest June releases of the last 10 years.
Half a dozen reasons why Sridevi is to the camera born. Sreehari Nair lists them out.
If Rahul's yatra makes a political statement from the other side of the aisle and Shah Rukh's success underlines a more relaxed popular mood, Mr Modi and Mr Bhagwat's cues to their followers are coming from another place, observes Shekhar Gupta.
Shinde's counsel said that any delay in the floor test would cause more damage to the democratic polity.
Some of the most iconic moments of Roger Federer's glittering career featured Rafael Nadal across the net but on Friday his great Spanish rival will be alongside him for his final bow.
Rediff.com brings you some pictures that summarise the happenings in the sporting world in the week that was.
He was replaced by the then hot and saleable Sanjay Khan.
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel loses the plot somewhere in the first 15 minutes, says Nishi Tiwari.
Students made online music education possible during COVID-19, say teachers, and they will determine its future.
Puneeth fan M D Riti lists five films that she consider to be amongst his best.
Sandip Roy checks out the latest 'youth' film, Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na on the marquee and finds parents vaulting the generational divide.
Subhash K Jha gives us the very best of Waheeda Rehman.
'The reaction to Cutting Chai has been, "I never thought you could do something like this!" and I like that.'
In the last ten years, 96 per cent of the sedition cases against 405 individuals pertained to making critical remarks against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, points out Ramesh Menon, author, Modi Demystified: The Making Of A Prime Minister.
The Jaguar F-Type Coupe is an extremely fun car to play with but at the same time you have to be careful with its tail happy nature.
Bobby Deol delivers, but Aashram 3 does not, observes Namrata Thakker.
'Why does it happen that our films don't work there, their films work here?'
Rediff.com's Uttam Ghosh picks images of India from his travels.
Despite the smaller scale of the event, the mood at the ceremony was cheerful, notes Aseem Chhabra.
His advice was to always start with small positions because we are bound to make mistakes; and remain humble because the markets can be merciless, remembers Debashis Basu.
Rediff.com has the best sports images from the events in the week gone by snapped right here...
The spectacular Milky Way over the picturesque Bavarian mountain, Herzogstand, the remarkable Horsehead Nebula and the Flame Nebula, a vast cloud of gas and dust where new stars are being born; the Royal Observatory's Insight Investment Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2019 has once more received thousands of outstanding images. The competition, which is run by the Royal Observatory Greenwich, sponsored by Insight Investment and in association with BBC Sky at Night Magazine, is now in its eleventh year and has broken the record number of entries once more, receiving over 4,600 entries from enthusiastic amateurs and professional photographers, taken from 90 countries across the globe. The winners will be announced on September 12, and an exhibition of the winning images from the past years of the contest will be on show at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich from September 13.
Richa Gangopadhyay tops the list with her brilliant performance in Mayakkam Enna
Watch this dream come true for Mani Ratnam and cinema on the largest screen possible, insists Sukanya Verma. Ponniyin Selvan: 1 Review
Just scroll through these pics and you will get the answer.
'What an incredible opportunity to bring back one of the greatest actors of Indian cinema on the big screen.'
The greatest films on the kotha culture are the ones with the best poetry and music.
Rathika Ramaswamy's love affair with wildlife photography began in 2003, when she took pictures of birds at the Bharatpur bird sanctuary. That love affair -- captured in her lens -- bloomed! And how!
Bappida's softer more creative work got buried in the noise, rues Subhash K Jha as he picks the late lamented composer's most soulful songs.
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