Leo Varadkar, The PM Who Likes Jalebis

'When my father travelled 5,000 miles to build a new home in Ireland, I doubt he ever dreamed that his son would one day grow up to become its leader.' Vaihayasi Pande Daniel/Rediff.com profiles Dr......

What the fiddich! Why are books so fat?

Just as scotch bottles have become bigger, novels have also become fatter. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com. A few days ago, a friend said he doesn’t read fiction. This reminded me of......

The trouble with Harry Potter

Like every other Muggle on the planet, I'll be queuing up tomorrow for the sixth book in the Harry Potter saga. There are good reasons for doing this. Millions of copies of J K Rowling's Harry......

First Look: Famous Five are back!

It was always about the scones. Readers around the world were drawn into Enid Blyton's Famous Five, a series of young adventure stories as much about picnics with the aforementioned British snack......

Big Girls Don't Cry Review: Watchable

Big Girls Don't Cry is too solemn to be fun and too timid to be truly bold, feels Deepa Gahlot. For the new generation, it is probably the Harry Potter books set in a boarding school that......

Review: Vampire Academy is a sloppy mashup of pop references

Vampire Academy falls flat on its face, says Paloma Sharma.If one had to summarise Vampire Academy in one word, it would be, without a doubt, awkward. However, if one were allowed to use more than......

Review: Poovarasam Peepee has right balance of fun, suspense and emotions

Director Halitha Shameem deserves credit for weaving an excellent suspense thriller like Poovarasam Peepee, writes S Saraswathi. Halitha Shameem, who has previously worked with notable......