Kashmiris receive traditional leech therapy from a practitioner during the celebrations of Nowroz in Srinagar. Nowruz, the beginning of the year in the Persian calendar, has a different......
Deriving from Narendra Modi's continuing charisma, the proposed scheme, if and when implemented, can cut both ways. That is to say, if Modi can win, he can lose. Or, someone else in his place,......
Would there be such a day when I could feel free from this emptiness, this vacuum that has taken over my heart? asks Aarti David. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com Are we ever fully......
Ahead of the upcoming elections, political parties have started announcing incentives to benefit women, but what do women truly seek for genuine gender parity, asks Nivedita Mookerji.......
'A large number of people from Sindh province will now opt to migrate to India as they would be granted citizenship through an easy process.' IMAGE: BJP supporter displays a placard during the......
'While Indian markets are indeed not inexpensive, the valuations of largecap stocks are still a considerable distance from being overstretched.' Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com The tight......
The message is clear: The 60-year-old wise uncles need to handhold the 40-year-old entrepreneurs when, obsessed with ambition and greed for growth, they become a victim of hubris, points out Tamal......
Questions will be raised over why those changes take place and whether non-economic factors are at play, says A K Bhattacharya. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com India's gross domestic......
RBI's exercise will take into account standards of governance, the viability of the payment bank (PB) business model, and changes, if any, if needed. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com The......
'Now that all the early adopters have the electric car, governments are backing down in some countries because they do not have the money to subsidise so much.' Kindly note the image has only been......
'Ameen Sayani was copied by generations. Now everyone is trying to become smaller Ameen Sayanis in their own way.' Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com In 1960, when the film Dil Apna Aur......
'I somehow felt that Muzaffar Ali was in Aligarh to feel the pulse of the Muslim youth, especially in the darker and harsher times that India is passing through,' notes Mohammad Sajjad. IMAGE:......
'Find a name that changes the words honor killing and hopefully it includes the word murder.''If you use the words, you are trying to justify the murders.' IMAGE: Pavia Sidhu as Jassi and Yugam......
'It has never happened that all Top 5 songs on Spotify are from one film. On the Ormax list, the Top 9 are from Animal.''The music is good, sure. But everything has taken off with Animal the film.'......
It was a year of so many contradictions and contrasts that it became dangerous to talk about movies, people lost their heads discussing Friday releases, psychiatrists began dabbling in film......
In 2022, he raced past Usain Bolt, 'the world's fastest man', to become the world's most written-about athlete. The attention has followed a stream of medals: Asian Games gold twice, an Olympic......