'Sholay wallah kahani hai: 'Gabbar Singh aayega, Gabbar Singh aayega.' 'But what is inside Gabbar Singh nobody knows.'
'If Modiji likes his pakodas fresh from the pakodewala, why does his government keep making things difficult for us?'
'Gerson existed at the intersection of principle and conscience. 'One of our conversations turned to his return to India from Brazil. 'He spoke about the choices he made and the things he felt he had failed at. 'What emerged was how he always steadfastly stuck to his beliefs and was true to them and himself. 'The need to -- in Spike Lee's words -- Do The Right Thing.' Director Dev Benegal remembers Gerson da Cunha, 'friend, guide, light'.
Noah Dominic, Maya Dominic, Durga Dominic and Dominic Xavier recall via sketches a spectacular vacation in Lucknow.
Even in this darkest hour of a crumbling economy and raging disease, there is hardly a murmur of protest against the government, observes Sumit Bhattacharya.
Fresh off the OTT oven, Sukanya Verma picks 10 hot new treats for you.
Given that this is a Prakash Jha film, drama does knock on the door, observes Joginder Tuteja.
'Bola nikal jao. Sala firing karte hai Russi.'
'Villages are much better prepared than towns as far as COVID-19 is concerned.'
Here's what Sabah Khan's spring/summer 2011 line at Lakme was all about.
Reminiscent of desi culture, a hotel staff was serving tea in normal glasses while standing next to a bicycle.
'This way, you'll maintain our glorious traditional values and get more efficient governance as well.'
Bollywood gives Shashi Kapoor a final salute.
We trace the actress as she shoots for her new film in North India.
'Overnight, with zero qualification whatsoever for the responsibility of prime ministership, Priyanka is being projected as an alternative to Narendra Damodardas Modi!' says Nazarwala who predicted Mayawati's win in the 2007 UP elections, forecast her rout in the 2012 polls, and called right the 2017 UP assembly election result.
'Rafi was singing for Hanuman and I was singing for Ravan.' 'C Ramachandra corrected Rafisaab and he became red in the face.' 'I asked Anna (Ramachandra), "How could you do this?"' 'He replied, "How could I not do this? My song was being spoilt".'
'Everybody knows that any solution would upstage and expose official bungling.' 'That is something Mrs Sitharaman's masters will not allow.' 'No matter how high the cost in human misery, they will squander a fortune on the unnecessary Central Vista extravaganza,' notes Sunanda K Datta-Ray.
The young party sees a stream of volunteers from outside Delhi. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com.
They don't, yet governments persist with populist Budgets. Why?
On all key issues, Congress is MIA, sighs Shekhar Gupta.
'They want to establish the silence of the graveyard in university campuses across India.' 'They cannot bear any questioning or dissent. They want subordination and obedience.' 'And that is not going to happen,' says Communist Party of India-Marxist leader Brinda Karat.
Tell us, who you think is the real king of the mangoes?
Meel Patthar is, both by theme and design, a tragedy of inertia, observes Rohit Satish Nair.
'People have realised they bought into the prime minister's package and it is empty.'
'Will you take a Mercedes Benz or Rolex watches or fancy shoes to your grave?'
Every home across India makes khichdi and it still isn't as celebrated as it should be.
The worst is over. It is not raining now. The forecast says it will, but the sun is shining outside the office window - that, and the way Mumbaikars opened their homes, offices and hearts is reason to cheer.
Rahul also said the founders of Ford, Mercedes and Honda were 'mechanics'
O Panneerselvam took over as the chief minister of Tamil Nadu on Monday, two days after All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam chief J Jayalalithaa was forced to step down after being convicted in the Rs 66.65 crore disproportionate assets case.
'People are just putting the mask below their nose.' 'They are only protecting the mouth, but not the nose.' 'People need to understand that it is the nose which has to be protected.'
'The situation has improved because oxygen tankers are now coming.' 'Before this it was chaotic.'
The BJP needs to worry about the kinds of professions it has landed up glorifying -- chai vendors, pakora vendors and now guards. These are not professions that any one of its voters would like to cherish, points out Mahesh Vyas.
When the filmmaker took Rediff.com on a tour of his lavish New York estate.
The roadshow will begin from Kachahari at 12 noon after party leaders garland the statue of BR Ambedkar and will cover a distance of around eight kilometers in three hours.
Shashi Kapoor, the star who made us laugh, romance and cry, passed into the ages on December 4. We look back at the often underrated actor, who reinvested all his earnings as an actor into making films and keeping the theatre he established, Prithvi Theatre, alive.
The UP CM didn't deign to attend the actor's nomination.
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