'Most likely scenario is Modi comes back with either a much smaller majority and no majority at all and a coalition.' 'Very hard to imagine him doing better than he did last time.' 'He will then be a weaker prime minister,' the author of The Billionaire Raj tells Rediff.com's Vaihayasi Pande Daniel.
Photographer S Paul, who died this month, was furiously protective about his independence and intensely sure about his work. So much so that he once walked away from a shoot with a prime minister.
Narendra Modi was at the receiving end of 'neech (low-level)' barb again, this time from Congress President Sonia Gandhi, who berated his "insult" of Rajiv Gandhi and said such "low-level" thought and words do not suit him and national politics.
Meet Bengaluru's fondest freedom fighter, HS Doreswamy, who has been a sprightly witness to the country's ups and downs since 1947.
Prince Ali is standing against Sepp Baltter in Friday's election and although Blatter is strongly favoured to win.
The Islamic State group has released a video showing the beheading of US aid worker Peter Kassig in a warning to Washington as it prepares to send more troops to Iraq.
'I don't necessarily want to be an actor or make it my profession but if it happens organically, I will accept it.' While he's at it, we get to enjoy Shekhar Ravjiani on the big screen, in Neerja.
'Rich Indians don't give cash, they give gold. Why?' 'Because cash is spent by temples on prasad or doing some charitable work.' 'Gold remains intact with god,' says Aakar Patel.
The street-fighter is back and the introspecting, sparingly speaking avatar of Kejriwal has gone on an extended recess. In this grime of heightened Delhi politics, all the good work done by the Delhi government may go down the drain, warns Sudhir Bisht.
'Did Islam kill those five people in London?' 'Or did one wacko individual do them in?' asks Vaihayasi Pande Daniel.
Rajat Jain tells us how he met his partner Kriti.
Resident doctors are the engines that run hospitals. For the patient, they are the face, hands, and voice of the hospital.
'I was always dancing in front of mirrors! I would dance in the shower too. My mother has to pull me out and make me stand still. I am that sort of girl.' Meet Sayyeshaa Saigal.
'The job of RSS is to unite the Hindu society and make it fearless, self-reliant and selfless,' says RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat
'Truth is stranger than fiction. You cannot think these things up.' 'What happens is weird enough.'
'The government had six months to prepare for the contingency. When the government is forewarned, it needs to take a decision on contingency measures, evict villagers, provide them with alternate temporary shelter, accommodation, provide food, water, cattle stocks. But none of this is ever done,' says N Suresh.
The Linkin Park frontman's suicide is a tragic reminder of how real and common the struggle against depression is.
'I do not have any grudge against Mandana. You never know, we might become best of friends when we meet outside! Whatever happens in the house stays there.' Kishwer Merchant discusses her Bigg Boss stint.
There is so much goodness in Garm Hava, says Aseem Chhabra/ Rediff.com
Narendra Modi and the father-son duo of Farooq and Omar Abdullah were on Monday engaged in bitter sparring, with the Bharatiya Janata Party prime ministerial candidate alleging that the biggest blow to secularism in the country was delivered in Kashmir from where Kashmiri Pandits were forced out due to their religion.
Academicians Lloyd and Susanne Rudolph, who were on Monday presented with Padma Bhushan award, predict significant changes in Indian politics if Aam Aadmi Party performs well in the Lok Sabha elections.
Parth J Shah is the man behind the The 100 Laws Project, a listing of the country's ludicrous but extant legislations.
'I do feel it's a question of your own upbringing, the way your father treats your mother, how the daughters are treated in the house.' 'You learn so much by osmosis. I suppose it's getting better, but it's not gone.' 'It's still a patriarchal society.'
'Even in its unmistakably masala tone, Bajrangi Bhaijaan firmly believes the desire for peace is universal and recommends being a hero. Or just human,' says Sukanya Verma.
'She's chatty, accessible and gregarious but doesn't exude the command and charisma required to attract the viewer's attention or contestant's anxiety' Sukanya Verma on why she is unimpressed with the Happy New Year director's hosting stint on Bigg Boss Halla Bol.
Despite being set in different yugas, there are characters who appear in both the Ramayana and the Mahabharata.
Elana Meyer looks back on the disappointment of missing out on competing internationally because of the sporting boycott of South Africa in conversation with Rediff.com's Laxmi Negi.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi didn't hold back on Wednesday when he launched a scathing attack on the Gandhi family and the Congress in Parliament during a debate on the motion of thanks for the president's address.
Stay away from theatres, I'd say. 50-kos away, even.
Brands should do something, but it should be done discreetly.
'All their idealism, intensity of emotions, acute sense of right and wrong, and burning passion for public causes can never serve as justifiable grounds to be touted by students of any country, let alone of India, with all its fragility and vulnerability, to question its unity in the name of freedom of expression,' says B S Raghavan.
The film may have a point when it questions the treatment of players as commodities, it overdoes the white saviour act a bit, says Paloma Sharma.
'After Rangeela, Urmila became the nation's sex symbol.'
After snapping his political alliance with the ruling National Democratic Alliance at the Centre, N Chandrababu Naidu, chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, speaks to B Dasarath Reddy on what he now has in mind.
The Bhratiya Janata Party has justified its poll alliance with the Telugu Desam Party in Andhra Pradesh despite critical comments made in the past by TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu.
'When Sultan released, I got greedy. I decided to make another film with Salman because he gets me a lot of box office.'
Whatever society may tell you childlessness is not a bad thing. And here are some reasons why.
'There is only one thing common between Dhoni and me: We take our work seriously, not ourselves.'
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