Meet Mona Patel, one of CNN's Top 10 Heroes of the Year.
Ashwini Asokan of Mad Street Den tells women to break stereotypes.
Full text of Rahul Dravid's Pataudi Memorial Lecture in New Delhi.
'If you are not able to perform today, 10 years later, you won't have an excuse to explain why you didn't do it when you could.'
Sunayana Dumala penned a message which has gone viral in which she says, "We need to spread love and stop this hatred."
'After Modi, Yogi is the most popular face of Hindutva, but it's too early to say that he is someone who could succeed Modi.'
Barkha talks about her journey in the world of glamour and her new show, Girls On Top.
'Whenever I felt like giving up, I'd think about my father.' 'I think about all the hardships he'd undergone to put me in a good school and give me the best of coaching.'
'If the RSS should be saluted for choosing such a scholarly statesman to address its highly trained cadre, one must also praise Pranab Da's sagacity for having gracefully accepting the invitation, thus disapproving any ideological apartheid,' says former BJP MP Tarun Vijay.
In our special series re-visiting great Hindi film classics, Sukanya Verma looks back at Raj Kapoor's Boot Polish (1954), starring Baby Naaz and Ratan Kumar.
Ratul Narain -- the entrepreneur behind Bempu -- tells Shobha Warrier that despite the challenges and frustrations, he is living his dream.
Taapsee Pannu on what makes her tick in the film industry.
'I always used to say ignore the trolls and move on and focus on your fans and friends,' Sreenath Sreenivasan tells Rediff.com's Monali Sarkar. 'That was easy for me to say. But now when I say it, I really mean it.'
While the rest of the world is busy making plans for the New Year, I have drawn up a list of what I should do before the year ends.
'People don't talk about any role that my father did -- it is always Gabbar Singh. He regretted this. He would tell me, 'I started at 25 floors and couldn't go any higher because I had started too high.'
Rescued from slavery at age 7 by Kailash Satyarthi's Bachpan Bachao Andolan, Om Prakash Gurjar is today one of the world's 7 top influential youngsters.
India's foremost ad guru, award-winning lyricist, and scriptwriter turns 46 today.
Read the full transcript of President Obama's State of the Union address on Wednesday at the US Capitol in Washington.
'People ask me if I miss living a normal life, since I don't have privacy, and I tell them I don't want to have a normal life. I want people standing outside my house, I want to be loved by them. I have been fortunate enough to live like a star for 25 years and I would like to die as a star.' Shah Rukh Khan, unplugged.
What does a man who feels like a woman face when married? And how does his wife cope?
'I couldn't understand why people didn't want to take me in a film or why I was offered the roles that I got.'
What happens if a movie ends differently? Reality checks in, of course.
Auroville just turned 50. Aurovilians who grew up in The experimental city speak of how their childhood was marked by a sense of openness and possibility.
In the fourth part of this series on North East Indian fashion designers and their struggles to attain success and visibility, Atsu Sekhose says he defines his success mantra as "repeat customers + good sales."
Rani Mukerji, unusually candid.
If we don't want a Hindu version of our neighbour, we must keep open minds -- even when what we hear or see is not what we like.
'Is standing in a queue any bigger sacrifice than that of a soldier's family?'
Meet 5 women who are running small home-based business ventures with the resources available to them.
'On her birthday, I decided to meet her and dressed up for it.' 'Then I saw her walking towards me with a boy. I thought it could be her brother.' 'But when she came close, she asked, "Have you met my boyfriend?"' 'That day I realised the value of sad songs in India.' 'That was the first time I was heartbroken.'
Nargis Fakhri is really fun to be around, discovers Patcy N/Rediff.com.
The actress released her statement recently, deriding irresponsible reporting of the incident.
It does not apply to anyone who might come to America illegally in the future. It does not grant citizenship, or the right to stay here permanently, or offer the same benefits that citizens receive, the President said.
Mumtaz Kazi recounts her life's journey in her own words.
In his address to the Harvard class of 2017, Thursday, he shared his Harvard memories and spoke about finding purpose and meaning in one's life.
Our country recorded 24,771 dowry deaths in the last four years, as per the National Crime Records Bureau data.
'Poverty-stricken and drought-affected families in Bundelkhand and Marathawada are selling their children for as little as a few hundred rupees.'
'I was actually appointed captain for the West Indies tour (in 1971).' 'But Mr Vijay Merchant (the then chairman of the selectors) didn't like me nor did he like 'Tiger' Pataudi. He thought we were far too flamboyant.' 'He made Ajit Wadekar captain.'
'I sometimes fight with God and tell him, "Bahut ho gaya yaar, I should go now, call me".'
'For some South Asians, it may be tempting to think "I'm not Muslim, this doesn't really affect me".' 'But please know, it affects all of us,' says Arun Venugopal, a reporter at WNYC in New York.
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I cannot agree with the sentiment that hanging rapists will make sexual harassment and assault, and other forms of violence against women, magically disappear. Misogyny has stained our culture for far too long for merely judicial recourse to be able to wash it away, says Paloma Sharma.
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