He was getting fruits, but no implement to cut them with. He told the judge, sadly: "I have tried and it is very difficult, your honour." His statement quickly brought up the imagery of Peter trying to cut a pineapple with his teeth or a papaya with a pen or a toothbrush.
A look at the red carpet pictures.
The top posts on social media from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
Swapna Mitter, who travelled from Singapore to watch the semi-final, says many hearts were still bleeding blue after the loss in Sydney.
Cardiff had lost six of their previous seven games but, knowing that anything but a victory would probably end their survival hopes after one season in the top flight, overcame a strong Brighton start to play with growing confidence and fully deserved their victory.
"I'm not doing any favour. I'm giving back to my country."
Sukanya Verma salutes most beloved Rishi Kapoor melodies.
Reader Louet Colaco sent us a photograph of Kapil Dev from Qatar.
'While Modi is undoubtedly the star of the show, the online sphere has found in Modi the champion to re-engineer what it means to support the right.'
The 87th Annual Academy Awards have been announced. Here's a quick glance at the winners.
Reader Anand Nijampurkar sent us this picture from Cincinnati.
Rahul's hug to PM Modi and his wink later had Twitter abuzz with jokes aplenty and the hashtags 'pappukijhappi' and 'hugplomacy' began trending on the microblogging site.
It will make you uncomfortable because you will have seen bits of this story -- or most of it -- many times, in your home or in the homes of your loved ones. And you've probably watch it pan out silently, says Savera R Someshwar.
There are times when even Mr Right can be wrong. After all, we are born with imperfections!
'This Ram Navami -- the birth anniversary of Lord Ram -- presents the majority community an opportunity to shed its minority complex and offer an olive branch and discrimination- free society to the minority,' suggests Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
A look at the top tweets from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
Sameer Buddha was just the kind of witness Indrani's lawyer Sudeep Pasbola dislikes. Someone, who had temporarily dumped his memory before entering the court. He answered most questions, one after another, one after another, one after another, with a monotonous, deadpan: 'I don't remember.' 'I don't remember.' 'I don't remember.'
India's One-day International captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni was back at the helm for the limited-overs' leg against South Africa next month.
Reader Srikanth Sundararajan sent us a picture of Dhanraj Pillay from Bangalore.
The top posts on social media from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
Hitesh Harisinghani/Rediff.com brings you glimpses of the grand affair.
Reader Gautam Tourani sends us pictures.
The 22 year old has an Indian father and a Japanese mother.
The top posts on social media from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
This young, beautiful and talented girl from the Assam, India is sure to melt your heart.
The prejudices the Chinese carry with them mean they are not natural global managers.
Nobody is clear what 'minimum government maximum governance' means.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had a rather eventful day out in Mongolia. Amid his packed schedule he made time to play a fiddle, try his hand at archery and of course click a selfie. :)
Reader Jo K Alapatt sent us a picture of former footballer Jack Charlton from Bangalore.
The latest Bollywood updates.
News of all that's transpired on and off the football field
Mumbai-based couple Jyoti and Shrinath Iyer travelled 4,600 km by bike from Maharashtra to Kerala and back.
'The appearance of idols of deities inside Babri was not a miracle. It was a planned and surreptitious attack to put them on the intervening night of December 22-23, 1949'
Find out what the ace designer has to say about these stars.
Perhaps the calculation is that economic recovery will have been achieved before the next general election comes around, but such assumptions can come unstuck if current directions are not reversed quickly, cautions T N Ninan.
