Bikash Mohapatra salutes boxing legend Muhammad Ali.
'Every Ali obituary I read made the point that he 'transcended his sport' -- a reference to the many battles he fought with America even as he fought in America.' 'What the obituaries leave out is that Ali equally transcended the boundaries of geography and of information -- as witness the Chennai teen who assimilated that most mobile of fighters through still images shorn of context.'
'In 2015 I watched films in so many places. I attended several film festivals around the world -- Berlin, Tribeca (New York), Telluride, Toronto, Zurich, Mumbai, Dharamsala and Goa,' says Aseem Chhabra, author of a forthcoming book on Shashi Kapoor.
Filmmaker Muzaffar Ali looks back at his movies.
'The Modi government believes the industrialist, the capitalist, has to pay for the assets of the government which belong to the people of India.'
On the occasion of Chinese New Year, we bring you a look at what 2015, the Year of the Sheep has in store for you!
Rediff.com reproduces the 1997 feature about Laxman, his passion for crows, and of course, his genius.
