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Judge: Knew Tolstoy's 'War and Peace' was classic

IMAGE: A portrait of Leo Tolstoy by Ilya Repin. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons The Bombay high court on Thursday made it clear that it was not referring to Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace but a book......

14 Books that best capture India

Rediff.com flags off its Independence Day celebrations, looking at the books that capture the weft and warp of the wonder that is India. A Suitable Boy An economist from Oxford and Stanford,......

Bhima-Koregaon: HC calls Tolstoy's War And Peace objectionable

The Bombay high court on Wednesday asked Elgar Parishad-Bhima Koregaon case accused Vernon Gonsalves to explain why he kept 'objectionable material' like a copy of Leo Tolstoy's War and......

My country, period

I want to tell you a story about a British woman called Melita Sirnis. Melita was born in 1912 to an English mother and a Latvian father, a bookbinder who had once been part of the Leo......

For biographers, Gandhi as father was a mixed bag

While historian Ramachandra Guha and Iranian-Canadian philosopher Ramin Jahanbegloo believe Gandhi was less than the perfect father, author Sandhya Mehta treads a more middle path. The......

Policies keeping India poor, says Chandrababu

The former chief minister of Andhra-Pradesh, Chandrababu Naidu, said in his keynote address on 'Management beyond the Obvious' at IIMA-Confluence 2005 on Friday: "India is not a poor country, we......

Business Families and their UGLY succession battles

The world is full of family businesses that withered away with the passing of generations, creating much bitterness and ill will.Entire clans that used to be household names have become pale......

'There will not be a messiah'

'There will only be an institutional solution between the board and the founders to take Infosys forward.' As the debate continues on who is right and who is wrong in the Infosys saga, Manish......

Love, Sitara Review: Confused Drama

Love, Sitara doesn't flesh out the people or their problems enough to give us a glimpse into their minds, observes Sukanya Verma. Love, Sitara starts off by quoting Leo Tolstoy's opening line from......

What's making Katrina smile?

Vidya goes ethnic...Malaika wears a swimsuit... Photograph: Kind courtesy Katrina Kaif/Instagram Katrina Kaif quotes Leo Tolstoy: 'If u want to be happy,... be.' Photograph: Kind courtesy......

Race 3 trailer review: Dishoom, dishoom, dishoom...

And one angry family, says Syed Firdaus Ashraf. 'All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way,' Leo Tolstoy pointed out in his classic Anna Karenina. Salman Khan's......

Adieu, Christopher Plummer

More than anything, he played his parts with great gusto.Subhash K Jha salutes an incomparable actor. IMAGE: Christopher Plummer arrives for the special presentation of Knives Out at the Toronto......

Review: Khajoor Pe Atke, half-baked satire

'The satire in Khajoor Pe Atke is not savage enough,' feels Prasanna Zore. Had debutant director Harsh Chhaya gone the whole hog to expose the hypocritical, self-serving institution of relatives......