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'Partition is a massive part of our history'

'Partition was a two-sided story in a very big way.''We've oversimplified it, blamed the British, thought of ourselves only as victims.''We've been both victims and perpetrators.' IMAGE: One of......

'I have grown some steel in my psyche'

'I'm 79 + now, and I've been doing all this since my late 20s.''Sometimes the ideological war extends to the home as well.''Many nights I couldn't sleep when someone close to me uttered the......

Confusion over border worsened Partition violence

Exactly 75 years ago, the Radcliffe Line -- a geographical marker that demarcated the boundary between India and newly-created dominion of Pakistan -- was published, cartographically cleaving the......

No Party Can Solve Punjab's Problems!

Punjab faces many mortal threats.For most of these the people of Punjab are themselves responsible.And unless they take a brutal hard look within, their future generations have to be resigned to......

UK has sought info on use of FCRA by India, House of Lords told

The UK government has asked for specific numbers over a period to drill-down on the use of the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act by the Indian government around funding licences of......

The visionary who made Indian IT industry global

One should appreciate the sagacity and audacity of JRD and Nani Palkhivala in founding TCS on April 1, 1968.At that time there was no Microsoft or Intel, SAP or Accenture, much less Google.They......

Yes Bank founder Rana Kapoor sent to custody till Mar 11

Yes Bank founder Rana Kapoor, arrested on money laundering charges, was remanded in the Enforcement Directorate's custody till March 11 by a Mumbai court on Sunday. IMAGE: Yes Bank founder Rana......

From Mata to Menace: How the holy cow may end up 'eating' votes

Thanks to the increased thrust on cow protection, the enforcement of the ban on cow slaughter and the relentless crusade by cow vigilantes, the agrarian ecosystem from Haryana to Uttar Pradesh has......

Why Urjit Patel said, 'I quit'

The resignation is sure to create more political firestorms for the government as it comes on the eve of the winter session of Parliament where the Opposition has already made it clear to the......

Holy cow! Now even India Inc spends money on them

41 listed firms made 73 donations to gaushalas (cow shelters) and other cow-related charities over the last four years. The donations range from a few thousand rupees to a million.......

'The trick is to look forward with excitement, then you're alive all the time'

Varsha Bhosle salutes that effervescent icon of Indian cinema, Dev Anand, who would have turned 99 today, September 26. IMAGE: Dev Anand. This feature was first posted on Rediff.com on April 4,......

Sherdil: The Pilibhit Saga Review

Sherdil: The Pilibhit Saga is a boring, overlong, tale of an eccentric with delusions of leadership, sighs Deepa Gahlot. In India, if there is a government scheme for the poor, there has to be a......

'Let them have a secret police to censor films!'

'That would once and for all teach all the film-makers of this country a fitting lesson!' *IMAGE: 'The idea of censoring films was instituted by the British our colonial masters who never trusted......

Rishi Kapoor: I don't like any of Ranbir's films

'When we saw Saawariya for the first time, I was aghast.''If only Bhansali had told me, I would have dissuaded him.'Rishi Kapoor gets candid in his memoir, Khullam Khulla: Rishi Kapoor Uncensored.......

Nothing's changed, yet everything has, for Bhumi Pednekar

'I still fight with my sister.' 'I still get scolded by my mom.' 'I still travel by autos sometimes.' 'I still have my regular pani puriwala.' Ronjita Kulkarni/ Rediff.com comes away impressed with......

Meet India's heroes from the Tokyo Olympic Games

India capped off its best-ever performance at the Olympic Games with a haul of seven medals, including a gold. As the curtain came down on the Tokyo Olympics, here’s a glance at the country's......

God has answered our prayers: Neeraj's family

'Today, he has lived up to everyone's expectations and made India proud' IMAGE: Neeraj Chopra celebrates with gold medal after winning the Javelin Throw Final at the Olympic Games. Photograph:......

The Good, Bad and Ugly of Indian sports in 2020

The year 2020 had its share of good, bad, ugly and unfortunately some truly sad events that won't be forgotten for a long time to come. IMAGE: Mumbai Indians celebrate winning the 2020......

Meet Kolkata's Million Dollar Babies

Every afternoon, veiled young women from a squalid Muslim quarter inKolkata walk to a public park where they swap their traditional attire for T-shirts, shorts and boxing gloves.For two hours, they......

Mirza bowls over cricket-mad India

Hundreds of cheering fans jostled past a bewildered guard into a stadium in India last Saturday for the final of a women's tennis tournament.This rare response in the cricket-mad nation was caused......

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