'I noticed the audience warming up to The Blueberry Hunt at different points. The surprise was the reaction from the aam aadmi, the common man. They loved the film!' Director Anup Kurian discusses his film.
Shashi Tharoor also said that it was too premature to write the obituary for the Congress party and that as an organisation it had no time to sit and lick its wounds as it must immediately pick itself up for the upcoming state elections.
The results are a ringing endorsement of Modi's popularity, his government's achievements in the last five years and his campaign, which centred around national security, nationalism and Hindutva.
Deane De Menezes hopes to reduce the awkwardness and stigma around menstruation.
Biju Menon tells Divya Nair/Rediff.com how he transformed himself to play a 73 year old character, one of his most challenging and satisfying roles as an actor.
Swargathekkaal Sundaram is one more addition to the heap of films that leave hardly anything to be remembered,
'Mumbai is testing a lot compared to a lot of other places in the country.' 'Now that we exactly know where the hotspots are, and they've been converted into containment zones, there is a lot of testing, going on, from door to door and symptom screening.' 'In the last 10 to 15 days we have definitely done a good job.'
'In India, a really popular and well-entrenched leader is not defeated by a rival.' 'Such a leader has to defeat himself,' observes Shekhar Gupta.
We were billed for silly things like cotton, toothbrush, toothpaste, moisturiser, hand sanitiser, etc. They did some HIV tests worth Rs 6,000 which were neither relevant nor required. Monali Pradeep Gaikwad shares her Hospital Horror Story
'People are losing their freedom to eat, speak, write and practise their religion.' 'All that is said in the Constitution has been taken away.' 'Does every Muslim or Christian or Hindu have to say I am a patriot every morning and repeat it in the afternoon and at night?'
With Joji, Dileesh Pothan has found a way, once more, to use everything he has learnt to further push the boundaries of his art, observes Sreehari Nair.
'The first one has done what it needs to do.' 'I'm sure there's going to be a stronger wave.' 'Anybody who thinks #MeToo has gone and they are off the hook are fooling themselves'
'Infectious disease is a given of humankind. There will always be another around the corner.'
'My grandmother taking me to the jamatkhana was like a different world.' 'Like I had a key to a door which no one else seemed to have.' 'She doesn't take me anymore because she says I'm an embarrassment!'
Rediff Labs analysed the data on MPLADS to see how the money given to each constituency was spent.
A lowdown on what's going on in the Malayalam film industry.
'The government, through the media, is saying that everything is normal in Kashmir, but I just want them to give this in writing and let a judicial commission see it.
Ivide tries to tackle a lot of things but ends up satisfying none.
Manvi Gandotra's journey will inspire you all.
The fellowships are limited to 21 'immortals of literature' at a time.
The first half of 2019-20 will be under pressure, since prices are expected to go up by Rs 7,000-8,000 at a time when sentiment is poor.
'I believe politics was imposed on it by the censor board, when it gave the film's trailer an A certificate, hoping to deny children, teenagers the opportunity to watch it during prime time television shows,' says Aseem Chhabra.
'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.'
Here's the lowdown from the Malayalam film industry.
Discovery Channel will soon telecast an inspiring program on people who have overcome physical handicaps.
'Do you know there is a 500 page report prepared by an inquiry committee headed by myself? When I placed the report in Parliament, have you heard any single Opposition leader give a notice for discussion? Why are they not demanding a discussion in Parliament on the report? They could have established that there was a scam. Today, a Parliament Committee report is as good as a Parliament report and this report says the 2G scam is no scam. Our government is suffering because of the media hype on these scams,' Congress MP P C Chacko tells Rediff.com's Shobha Warrier.
'Your record in human development has encouraged economists like K N Raj and Amartya Sen to refer to the Kerala model of development where social development has preceded economic development,' Singh added.
Football fans in Goa are shaking off their sussegado and becoming an animated, raucous, even belligerent lot.
If solutions are not found, adequately and in good time, things could simply slip out of everyone's hands, warns N Sathiya Moorthy.
'More so, if it is their daughters wanting to marry someone of their own choosing.' 'Children are seen as property. That's why the problem is so messy.' For young Indians wanting to marry outside their religion, expressing their right to love and live as they choose is becoming increasingly hazardous.
'How can anyone ask me to stop what I have been doing since I was 6?'
Meet Srihari Sathe. Producer. Director. Professor.
'Oraalppokkam is open to interpretation and therein lies its appeal.'
The Kochi-Muziris Biennale has put Kerala on the art tourism circuit, says Kishore Singh.
