An alert government in Delhi should have begun government-to-government discussions with Moscow the moment it came to know that Russians were developing a vaccine. That is to say, almost an year's time has been lost, observes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
'I regret not showing my grandparents the man I am today.' 'I was battling with drug and alcohol addiction when they were alive.' 'They were struggling to see me deteriorating my life and destroying it.'
'I did a small role in Masoom.' 'Do you remember the scene where an old man brings Jugal Hansraj to Naseer's house?' 'I put on the full make-up of an old man and stood in front of Shekhar.' 'He had no choice but to take me.'
Former Miss Commonwealth Asia Pacific Shweta Raj tells us why she wrote a guide book for aspiring models in the lockdown.
Etiquette classes today cater to a wide audience of job seekers, front-desk execs, business heirs, romantics, students and even those with low self-esteem
Bollywood is doing everything it can to busy themselves during the national lockdown. And some of them are adding a touch of humour too.
Indian students, who are living and studying away from home, tell us how they are dealing with the COVID-19 crisis and what they discovered on their journey back home.
Designer Namrata Lodha has been winning hearts with her sustainable hats.
'Male colleagues are stalking them on social media or sending friend requests, commenting on their pictures when they are not even friends.'
'Trust me, it's a disadvantage because people don't take you seriously.'
Rediff reader Aashi Garg, 15 from Hisar, Haryana talks about her love for Harry Potter and Jk Rowling.
'It would have been easy to make a small film with Tiger in a basti or an action film like Pushpa which was all mud, grunge and a repeat of what I had done before.'
'The culture of mankind has been spread by the travel gene which pushes one in five people to have the curiosity to move to unknown destinations.'
'When Zubeida came, everybody loved me and I got a slew of offers of the same kind.' 'People started saying, "Aap nayi Aruna Irani ban jayegi".'
Over 51% per cent of users feel they will probably continue virtual dating even after they will be able to meet up safely.
'Chup is the work that I'm most satisfied with; it won't bore me or make me cringe later.'
In northeast Delhi, Eid this year is a celebration of a long-time friendship that even stood the test of communal riots for some, while for many, it is shorn of any festivities.
In this weekly self-help series, mental health and life coach Anu Krishna tells you how to take control of your life.
'We have been given time to look deep within, learn to laugh again, to understand that there is so much more to life than just trying to make life happen.'
These pics of Sarah Jane Dias doing yoga will make you want to get in shape.
Film folk have been brushing up on their dancing skills at home, and posting videos to show their progress.
In this weekly self-help series, mental health and life coach Anu Krishna tells you how to take control of your life.
Rohit Sharma had to return home mid-way through the New Zealand tour after sustaining the calf injury during the T20 series on February 2.
Dhoni says no to brand endorsements amid pandemic, keeps busy with organic farming
In this weekly self-help series, mental health and life coach Anu Krishna tells you how to take control of your life.
While Kareena kept it light and fun, Aamir didn't shy away from roasting Karan Johar.
In this weekly self-help series, mental health and life coach Anu Krishna tells you how to take control of your life.
Namrata Thakker looks at many more film folk enjoying their lockdown inside their wow homes.
'I can sense that because we have shared a room for 20 years of our lives.'
In this weekly self-help series, mental health and life coach Anu Krishna tells you how to take control of your life.
'I worked over 100 times more to prove I wasn't a madamji doing this as a hobby.'
Hemangi and Prashant Nakwe's vegetarian thaali business is keeping them busy in the lockdown.
'Such exciting things were happening and then this speed bump happened.'
Deane De Menezes hopes to reduce the awkwardness and stigma around menstruation.
Since he lives locally, Harish Patel is one of the luckier migrant workers in Surat - in that his employer was able to squeeze in a single shift for him at the weaving unit in Kamrej in Gujarat - unlike others who went home for Holi and other festivals just as the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic was waxing and ended up stranded in local lockdowns.
Britain's prime ministerial candidate Rishi Sunak has said he wants to change the UK-India relationship to make it a more two-way exchange that opens up easy access to UK students and companies in India.
The wave of enthusiasm for digital technology had faded as we'd grown more and more worried about what smartphones and social media were doing to society and to us as individuals. Now that switchback ride between hopes for the technology and fear of it seemed to have taken us on another upward path, as the virus made us fall back in love with it. Read on for an intriguing excerpt from Rory Cellan-Jones's Always On: Hope And Fear In The Social Smartphone Era.
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