This grilled appetiser is easy to make, hard to resist.
Ariyippu is not a movie where you ask for a happy ending and you are served it on a platter. As situations change, the central characters conceal and display their vulnerability as any other real-life couple, observes Divya Nair.
Delhi University's four-year undergraduate programme in its current form will inconvenience students as opposed to benefiting them.
Dhanush deserves credit for imagining a visually rich, edgy action thriller which is enhanced by a fascinating background score from A R Rahman, observes Divya Nair.
Divya Nair never went to a fashion show nor had she crossed paths with a supermodel in her life. And then Lakme Fashion Week happened to her. Nair writes about her experience for rediff.com
Presenting the best food pics shared by our readers this week. You can share yours too! Simply click on this link #RediffFoodies.
Delhi University's four-year undergraduate programme in its current form will inconvenience students as opposed to benefiting them.
Delhi-based Shubham Chakraborty, 32, a management graduate from XLRI, Jamshedpur, tells us how he fought anxiety and stress due to poor workplace management.
When you leave the cinema hall, what stays with you is the message of inclusion and the need to stand up for your freedom, observes Divya Nair.
Globsyn Skills, a Kolkata based vocational training organisation is far from complaining about the unemployability of our graduates. Besides having mentored and trained thousands of technical graduates to identify their aptitude, they now aim to employ 150 million youth across various Indian states by 2022. They tell us how.
While Season 3 is no match to the previous seasons, it would be fair to expect there is a lot more for the season to reveal in terms of romance and suspense, observes Divya Nair.
'There is a sense of achievement but it has come at a great cost.'
Feminism doesn't mean being 'anti-men' it means being 'pro-women', says Hyderabad-based jewellery designer Suhani Pittie who was named among the 35 most powerful women of India under-35 by Femina magazine.
Designer Monisha Jaising tells you how to pick fabrics, colours based on the season.
Radhika Apte believes that no one should be schooled on what to wear or what to do, based on how they look.
The SNAP 2011 exam allegedly featured questions taken from Web sites of coaching institutes, repeated answer options, incomplete information besides spelling and typography errors. Divya Nair checks if these allegations have any merit.
If you are looking for a fluffy rom-com without much pravachan, Kushi is worth a watch, recommends Divya Nair.
Model Meenakshi Khari shares her greatest learnings with Rediff.com's Divya Nair. Read on!
The Village starts off pretty well, but it required something more convincing than a bunch of creepy Gollum-like monsters to deliver the impact it should, observes Divya Nair.
Hans Dalal overcame the limitations his condition posed to become a successful sound engineer. Then he fell in love with tigers, and decided to merge his passions. Divya Nair digs deeper.
Try this instant recipe made from leftover idlis and impress your guests.
'When I started my career, I was told that if you don't have a godfather, it's difficult to survive in the industry. Now that I have spent a fair amount of years in this profession, I can tell you that it's not the case.' Top model Amit Ranjan's lessons to make it in the fashion industry.
Mandira Bedi, who presented her first-ever collection of saris on Day 2 of the Lakme Fashion where nine extraordinary women - including her mother Geeta Bedi - showcased her designs, speaks candidly with Divya Nair about her inspiration for choosing to design saris, how she manages to stay so fit while sharing two cents of advice on how to drape the nine-yard.
Today, I should tell Amma what she means to me because tomorrow I'll be married and gone, says Divya Nair in her last column before her wedding.
As the D-day draws closer, I realise that the list of pending things instead of decreasing is piling on. Now, it's a race against time says soon-to-be-married Divya Nair.
In her tenth column, Divya Nair shares the best pieces of advice she got from her mother for a happy and healthy relationship.
In her latest entry, Divya Nair talks about the nervousness she encountered while meeting her parents-in-law for the first time and how it helped her decide whether or not she would live with them post marriage.
In her next entry, Divya Nair shares what she learned from her interaction with a gynaecologist. Illustration by Uttam Ghosh.
In her seventh entry Divya Nair talks about the chaos in the bride's dressing and why she prefers an expert to help her get dressed for her wedding.
In her sixth entry Divya Nair discusses the embarrassing things conventional wedding photographers and videographers ask newly weds to do and wonders whether or not she is ready to let them invade her privacy.
In her next entry, Divya Nair shares her bitter-sweet experience of shopping for the wedding saree and why she disapproves the age-old tradition of binge buying.
Presenting the most-viewed recipes this year.
At the end of eight episodes, the climax is bound to leave you with questions but it would be fair to say that the two-episode backstory and the characters seemed far more interesting than the six-episode drama and tension that led to it, observes Divya Nair.
In her next entry, Divya Nair discusses some events from her life that have made her realise how difficult it is to please everyone and why it is important to learn to take things in the right spirit and move on.
How does one justify mortgaging property and going out of their way to buy gold and gifts for a daughter's wedding? In her second column, Divya Nair talks about the unreasonable practice of elaborate gifting and exchanging gold in the name of tradition and why it bothers her so much.
Soon-to-be-married Divya Nair will celebrate her last Diwali at her parents' home. She looks back at some of her most memorable festive memories growing up.
Divya Nair talks to Harshvardhan Shah who recently finished third at the Brain Triathlon Challenge 2011 in Singapore.
What triggered young Ashwin Sanghi, having just returned from Yale with a degree in business management and a family business to take care of, to try his hand at history and mythology?
As one of India's topmost animation companies lays off its employees, a senior employee talks about what went wrong, and raises the question: Should your children join the animation industry?
Ahead of Raksha Bandhan, Divya Nair tells us why it was difficult to find a place for her younger brother in her heart.
