Supreet Singh, filmmaker and co-founder of Red Dot Foundation, explains how the 4km long Infinite Saree is a larger campaign against all forms of sexual abuse, including marital rape.
'A majority of filmmakers cannot truly understand the city because they don't live here,' says Anusha Rizvi, Director, The Great Shamsuddin Family.
These fashion-forward youngsters are redefining style.
'They wanted the city to be a great business hub. They didn't like the fact that taxes collected in Bombay would go outside the city.'
With the fashion world blurring the lines between innovation, technology and reality, shopping is all set to be revolutionised.
Coolest and craziest campus fashion over the years!
Twenty five-year-old designer Jelin George fresh from the London College of Fashion tells us how she got selected to showcase at Lakme Fashion Week, why she's ambitious enough to launch her own label right away and shares tips with youngsters aspiring to a career in fashion.
Never before in history have Cannes and its sidebars found space for eight Indian, or India-themed, films.
Kiara Advani was the showstopper for Farah Sanjana's spring summer collection.
'When my father travelled 5,000 miles to build a new home in Ireland, I doubt he ever dreamed that his son would one day grow up to become its leader.' Vaihayasi Pande Daniel/Rediff.com profiles Dr Leo Varadkar who will step down as Ireland's taoiseach (prime minister) next week.
Meet Sudha Murty and N R Narayana Murthy's daughter whose husband Rishi Sunak is the frontrunner to be Britain's next prime minister.
'I think my first obsessive, possessive and only half-requited -- as we would joke -- 'love' was Ivan. I saw him first slouching down the corridor of St Stephen's College nearly 50 years ago and was instantly smitten (as was everyone else around him).'
Deepa Gahlot picks the top 10 Karan Johar films -- some that he directed and others that he produced or co-produced -- that you can watch on steaming platforms.
On his 50th birthday on May 25, Sukanya Verma celebrates the man and his movies.
How Shibani Bhagat plans to rewrite the rules of the Indian sneaker business.
The girl from the north east who now walks for the best names in international fashion today was content wearing hand-me-downs from cousins those days.
He may try to keep it as natural as he can but there's no doubt that he's stolen a piece of everyone's heart, and some of these pictures are proof of that.
Mother-daugher duo Bhumika and Minakshi Ahluwalia will present their collection at LFW's GenNext.
Sita Ramam is a subtle reminder that, in a world where you can be anything, the best thing you can be is kind
'Rishi is brought up with Indian values -- Indian qualities like respect our parents, respect our uncles -- but he is more British.'
'Sooner or later the right kind of guy will come along, who likes you for who you are, not based on the clothes you wear,' says Love Guru.
Makeup artist Namrata Soni on styling Sonam Kapoor, Ira Dubey, Lisa Haydon and Amrita Puri.
Amartyada, says Omkar Goswami, thank you for being the humane, caring and socially concerned economist that you are.
Is winning a glamour contest, a beauty parade, a bigger achievement than getting to run one of the world's best known luxury brands or the IMF? asks Sandeep Goyal.
'You have to get past the phobia that Math is difficult.' 'The brain is exercising when you do arithmetic.'
'Kangana is such a stylo, she knows what will look good on her.'
From Kate Middleton to Oprah Winfrey and Priyanka Chopra, he designed the hats for many lovely ladies at the royal wedding.
Rudrani Chettri wants to help transgender models gain acceptance in mainstream fashion...will she succeed?
Dubai-based Indian-origin writer Doshi, who was shortlisted among the final six authors for her debut novel Burnt Sugar, lost out on the top prize.
Top winter looks straight off the runway, to keep you warm and stylish.
Tista Sengupta/Rediff.com speaks to aspiring plus size models who, for the first time, will walk at Lakme Fashion Week.
Tista Sengupta catches up with five emerging designers from North East India -- Daniel Syiem, Atsu Sekhose, Meghna Rai Medhi, Dhiraj Deka and Sanjukta Dutta -- who, in their own way, are fighting to keep their traditional art of weaving alive.
'Stumbling blocks teach a lot and should be taken as stepping stones.'
These hotties have been the toast of the fashion world this year. Vote for your favourite.
The wave of enthusiasm for digital technology had faded as we'd grown more and more worried about what smartphones and social media were doing to society and to us as individuals. Now that switchback ride between hopes for the technology and fear of it seemed to have taken us on another upward path, as the virus made us fall back in love with it. Read on for an intriguing excerpt from Rory Cellan-Jones's Always On: Hope And Fear In The Social Smartphone Era.
London-based Indian model Bhavna Suri tells us why models deserve equal respect as any other profession.
'We like to tell the rest of the world that we did it better, that we were stronger, that we had larger cities, that we taught them science,' Naman Ahuja tells Anjali Puri. 'This exhibition is an antidote to insularity -- it is saying we have learnt as much from the world as we have given it.'
'The uneducated think of their rights as a gift. This is deeply troubling.' 'If they were educated they could claim what is rightfully theirs.'
'... 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.'
... 'is long lives are generally the norm today,' says Rahul Jacob.
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