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Tilak: The Man In His Times

Lokmanya Tilak lived a life replete with contradictions, although he modified many of his positions later in life. Illustrations: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com Is it possible for a radical,......

Maha govt declares Ganeshotsav as state festival, to 'bear expenses'

The over-a-century-old 'Sarvajanik Ganehotsav' was on Thursday officially declared as the ‘State Festival of Maharashtra', with the government asserting that it was committed to preserving and......

1905: The Partition Before Partition

The partition of Bengal in 1905 split more than a province, it touched people's hearts and awakened India's fight for freedom. IMAGE: A vendor is seen tying a rakhi on a boy in Calcutta on October......

IN PIX: Popular Ganpati pandals in Pune

Rediff.com brings you the five most visited Ganesh mandals in Pune. The Kasba Ganpati is the residing deity of Pune. There was rivalry among the various mandals regarding the privilege of......

Why has history forgotten this giant?

Seven miles from Kashi in Uttar Pradesh is Mughalsarai. A hundred years ago, Lal Bahadur, India's second prime minister, was born there on October 2, 1904, the same day as India's greatest......

Swadeshi retail icon to drop label

The Bombay Store, whose origin goes back to the Swadeshi movement, is now open to foreign investment. While protests are mounting against the government policy allowing foreign direct......

Give up 'ostrich-like' attitude in drought handling: SC tells states

In a strong indictment of Centre and states’ handling of the drought situation, the Supreme Court on Wednesday said if state governments maintain an “ostrich-like......

No more Gandhi tags on schemes, Modi looks for new names

Official data show as of 2012, of the 49 schemes and institutes named after eminent personalities, 16 were after former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, five after Indira Gandhi, and two after......

'Sadashiv Amrapurkar was offered limited roles but he picked the best'

'Sadashiv Amrapurkar was a unique actor in the history of cinema. Such actors don’t create a void, they leave behind a legacy of cinema,' Govind Nihalani tells Patcy N. One of late actor......

Sadashiv Amrapurkar's finest performances

Veteran actor Sadashiv Amrapurkar, who breathed his last this morning at Kokilaben hospital in Mumbai, will be remembered for his remarkable ability to make us both adore and abhor him with his on......

Ayushmann Khurrana: Best part about being an actor is...

'...That you don’t have to introduce yourself. You don’t have to carry a visiting card,' Ayushmann Khurrana tells Patcy N/ Rediff.com. We still know him as the Vicky Donor actor. But......

Can India host the 2032 Olympics?

'The Mumbai-Pune Olympics will be help shift the country's gaze to a region that denotes a new formula for sports, enterprise, and nation building,' argues Shashank Mani Tripathi. IMAGE: The......