'Steve was the foremost strategic analyst on South Asia,' remembers Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
A highly-placed source in the BJP told Rediff.com, "Just as the Sangh dislikes the pseudo-secularism of the Congress, the Sangh also has a distaste for the pseudo Hindutva that the BJP is trying to practise in maddening race for power."
'Mr Modi would compliment a Nobel Prize winner, but members of his party or the government would not be restrained from either making unfair comments or criticising him for having offered advice to an Opposition political party,' says A K Bhattacharya.
Priyanka Jagga is fast becoming the most disliked person in the house.
West Bengal Finance Minister Asim Dasgupta, an MIT alumnus, had announced last month that the MIT is eager to open a Kolkata chapter and tie up with leading institutions in the state.\n\n
How can a cyclonic storm that could make landfall at India's eastern coastline with winds blowing in the range of 120 to 140 km per hour be named Hudhud?
We asked readers to tell us what they liked, and disliked, about Aamir's latest. This is what they sent us.
A former FIFA executive accused of soliciting bribes in the corruption case brought by US authorities against world soccer officials, wants to know why the United States is hosting this year's World Cup if it dislikes soccer's governing body so much.
The Congress on Thursday virtually ruled out any grand alliance in poll bound Uttar Pradesh including with Samajwadi Party insisting that Rahul Gandhi wanted to set things right in the state which is in bad shape for past 27 years in non-Congress rule.
His Press secretary said Prince Charles was upset over pictures of his son William with university friend Kate Middleton at a Swiss Ski resort.
'All those rumours that were floating around Delhi could not have been the basis of my report,' says Justice G T Nanavati, who probed the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
The Sahitya Akademi awardee asserted that he had no intention of writing for films as he was quite content with writing books.
'Deepak called me a gold-digger.' 'He said I am with Anupji for money.' 'Who gave him the right to degrade someone on national television like this?'
While everyone raves about the joys of the monsoons, Keya Sarkar is not as enthusiastic.
On a visit to India in 2013, writer Ved Mehta -- who passed into the ages on Sunday January 10, 2021 - gave Rediff.com's Vaihayasi Pande Daniel a rare glimpse into his state of mind and what he thinks of the changes he encounters in his motherland.
'If we're able to make a child laugh or feel happy to come to school, more than half the battle is won,' Katha Founder Geeta Dharmarajan tells Geetanjali Krishna.
The actress was simply bowled over by its message of Indo-Pak friendship.
Fast bowler Sohail Khan earned a surprise recall while Pakistan selectors ignored senior players Shoaib Malik and Kamran Akmal in their final 15-member squad for the World Cup.
The controversial interaction took place on Thursday when Rahul began taking questions from the audience.
'That Modi and the BJP can continue to treat the rising and expanding middle class this way shows that they have gamed its mind quite perfectly,' argues Shekhar Gupta.
'Once the prime minister and the chief ministers of Maharashtra and Haryana pushed for this in 2014 and 2015, we have been trapped in a cycle of violence that gives India a bad name around the world,' says Aakar Patel.
Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel let rip with a blast of swear words after two first lap collisions with Red Bull's Daniil Kvyat dumped him out of the Russian's home race on Sunday.
Former world number one John McEnroe has compared modern players to "robots", accusing them of lacking personality.
In his letter, Khan stated that he has 'run out of patience' of issuing clarifications to the public pleading innocence over a number of allegations levelled against him and his family members.
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