'Salman has supported me, but at the same time, let me have my own journey.'
US tech giant IBM is betting big on the India growth story and plans to open more software development centres in the country as it looks to partner with the government in its digitisation journey, its chairman and CEO Arvind Krishna said on Friday. On a visit to India, Krishna met Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Telecom Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw and Minister of State for IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar to discuss deeper collaboration including skilling and workforce development. The firm that originally designed the technology and system behind ATMs, barcodes and the US social security net, is greatly enthused with the speed at which the Indian government is willing to make decisions and where it is moving, he told a select media briefing.
'When Arnab Goswami's arrest became a talking point, the case of my husband who was arrested much earlier, was totally ignored.' 'When so many people spoke in support of Goswami, they were silent on a journalist named Siddique Kappan'
Despite its stiffness, in Aarkkariyam, a supernatural glow does shine out of the ordinary.
Why the 2020 Padma Shri Awards are an honour truly worth celebrating.
The pandemic situation in India has reached a breaking point and the only thing one can do now is stay safe and stay indoors. Here's everything OTT has to offer to keep you distracted this week.
At the end of the six short stories, Feels Like Ishq is uneven yet watchable, feels Sukanya Verma.
The party is better at winning elections than at governance and it remains intent on pushing ahead with its trademark social and political agenda observes T N Ninan.
'KRN's journey from a humble cottage in Uzhavoor to Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi was no less spectacular than that of Abraham Lincoln from the log cabin to the White House'.
Anil from Mumbai writes about his favourite cuisine.
It took a lockdown for us in India to even recognise that the plight of migrants needs to be addressed. They were faceless and unrecognised. They were unappreciated and even hounded. They were poorly paid and exploited, notes Ramesh Menon.
Several trains were cancelled, highways and key roads blocked and many thousands stranded for hours on Monday as a nationwide 10-hour shutdown against the Centre's three agri laws disrupted lives across parts of India, particularly in the north.
'You will never be able to do any work for society if you wait to make enough money.'
'How can one bring jihad into a relationship? How can one be restricted on the grounds of religion in marital things?'
'These people want to create fissures among the Hindus and they have been trying to do this for quite sometime.'
In 2020, Hindi cinema had a tough time staying on par with its southern counterparts.
Rajeesh Ravi shares his '2 States' story.
'We have only ourselves to blame.' 'For selfish reasons and greed, we have obstructed many outlets, preventing the water from flowing out, be it rivers, tributaries or small drainage systems.'
A new Congress leader may make an electoral impact by his very presence. Congress voters who had moved away from the party, after being influenced by the BJP's 'family rule' campaign, can now return with a certain moral satisfaction, observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
'This is the best time to do a pan-Indian film.'
The actor said the film industry has the power to stay independent and wished they had enough courage to do so.
The Congress party continues to be racked by arbitrary decision-making and the absence of accountability.
KPAC Lalitha's specialty was evoking on screen people that the audience felt they knew intimately, and evoking them through telling details that tore down the boundary between the audience and the performer, observes Sreehari Nair.
NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant shared ten best practices in a bid to bolster India's efforts against Covid-19 pandemic.
'The advocate tells me not to worry as truth will prevail one day.' 'I don't know... I am losing all hope...'
Aseem Chhabra watched some great films and some huge disappointments in 2021.
From a contestant on a reality show to a judge, Dilin Nair aka Raftaar shares the secrets that worked in his favour.
Deaths are significantly less in the third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in comparison to the second wave, and the current surge is not witnessing increase in severe illness or death following high vaccination uptake, the government said on Thursday.
'... their love was jinxed.' 'His celluloid path to his partner's heart was seldom smooth; it had to contend with greedy relatives and indecisive sweethearts, who were more ready to sacrifice than woo and wed.'
Aseem Chhabra lists his favourite Indian films of 2021.
Ramya Nair tells us how she found love in Arun.
The success story of six young engineering graduates who came together to build a unique product.
Diva Aur Baati Hum gets a sequel, and Bhabho is an important part of it!
On this day, February 1, in 1976, the Kerala-born poet released her autobiography, My Story.
They were strangers who met on a bus. They believe God brought them together. Shobha Warrier reports on an incredible story of kindness and giving from Kerala.
The BJP believes that the only party still capable of leading a credible challenge against it is the Congress. Please note how BJP campaigners in states where the Congress may count for a cipher or thereabouts, mostly attack the Congress, observes Shekhar Gupta.
Tata's small car might just have managed to steal the thunder from the annual boat racing festival in Kerala. For a special offer for Onam, Keralites have decided to give oars a rest, and test-drive the Nano instead.
'It is because we treat them as our own people, and there is no difference between owners and workers here.'
Rediff reader Thomas GK who recently travelled to Gavi, an eco-forest in Kerala with his family shares his experience.
Malayalam actor Sharafudheen talks about the films that defined his career.
