In politics, if your objective is only winning elections, just Chanakya neeti might do. For governance you need both, Chanakya neeti and Ram Rajya. You can neither beat up the farmers into submission, nor dismiss them as 'Khalistanis', asserts Shekhar Gupta.
'He began to find her boring. She felt lonely and unwanted.'
Joginder Tuteja looks at stars with the most movies in the pipeline.
Joginder Tuteja looks at actors with the most movies in the pipeline.
State governments need to focus on building charging infrastructure to realise the goal of transitioning a large proportion of their sales to EVs, reports Ishaan Gera.
The budget of this bio-pic is said to be Rs 1.2 billion.
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has cleared the draft red herring prospectus (DRHP) of the state-owned Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC). According to investment banking sources, the so-called final observations were issued by the market regulator on Tuesday evening. Following the market regulator's nod to the IPO papers, the insurer can launch its share sale. However, LIC may not launch its IPO immediately given the current volatile market conditions.
'Mr Modi has a huge opportunity before him.' 'Whether he grabs it the way Mrs Gandhi did in 1969 or squanders it as he did in 2014 will determine his economic legacy,' notes T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan.
Rediff reader Ravikant Rajput from Saudi Arabia writes about his school teacher Neela Joshi.
The Bharat Jodo Yatra, Ramesh said, has been a "real booster dose" for the public relationship of the Congress.
Bhaag Beanie Bhaag is neither hilarious nor engaging, complains Namrata Thakker.
'Through this one step, and more steps that follow, log judte jayenge (more people will come together); I'm sure of that.'
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'I was exhausted, hungry, unshaven and despondent.' 'My mouth was full of sores due to dehydration.' 'My clothes were in tatters due to walking through bushes and sliding down thorny slopes,' Brigadier John Parshuram Dalvi wrote of his capture during the 1962 War.
There are so many patriotic songs that make us proud to be Indians.
'I have been touched whenever I have known him personally as a human being.'
'All the characters have moved on from part one.' 'My character Srikant Tiwari is in a different zone.' 'Srikant is like R K Laxman's Common Man striving to keep a balance between his work and family.'
Michael Dalvi, who played first class cricket for Delhi, Tamil Nadu and Bengal, once hit a century against a fiery Malcolm Marshall and the West Indies. At 77, he has a razor sharp memory, a ready wit and is a rare cricketing treasure.
The last rites will be held at the Lodhi Road crematorium in New Delhi on Friday.
As Lisa celebrates her 35th birthday on June 17, Namrata Thakker lists 10 things about the leggy beauty that make her so HOT!
After spending 20 years in squalid camps in Jammu, the Kashmiri Pandits, who fled their native Kashmir valley to escape ethnic cleansing, will finally move into a new township. But they are not home yet. Archana Masih reports from Jammu on the torment of the Pandits in exile, which remains one of contemporary India's worst tragedies.
Satya Raghava's out-of-this-world recipe for one of Mangalore's staple dishes.
Singer Kanika Kapoor got married to NRI businessman Gautam Hathiramani on May 20 in London.
Heera Nawaz tells us about the woman who has inspired her.
A party without a 'high command' would be 'anarchy,' he said.
B D Pande was Punjab's governor during Operation Bluestar. In this excerpt from his memoir, In the Service of Free India: Memoir of a Civil Servant, Pande reveals what really went on behind the scenes during those dark days in India's history.
91-year-old Milkha Singh was discharged in stable condition on the request of his family
'Cyrus was also generous, hospitable, sharing of whatever he had.' 'He never ever acted like the inheritor of great wealth.'
Legendary Indian sprinter Milkha Singh and his wife Nirmal Kaur are 'stable and improving', the hospital in Mohali, where the couple is currently undergoing treatment after testing positive for COVID-19, said on Thursday.
The meeting assumes significance as the Maha Vikas Agahdi government in Maharashtra led by Shiv Sena, NCP and the Congress is facing a turmoil after former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh alleged that the state's Home minister gave a target to cops for collect Rs 100 crore every month.
'People want to know the life led by those living in Pakistan.'
In a case of grandstanding-gone-very-wrong, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, while launching her government's flagship scheme Dilli Annashree Yojna, claimed that a family of five can fulfill all their needs with a cash subsidy of Rs 600 per month. Rediff.com's Priyanka spoke to the aam aadmi in the affluent Nizamuddin East area in New Delhi, where Dikshit lives, and found reactions ranging from disbelief to disappointment at the chief minister's view.
Sam Manekshaw led the Indian Army to its greatest military victory this month 46 years ago. Lieutenant Colonel A K Shinde (retd), the field marshal's doctor for 35 years, tells Rediff.com's Archana Masih about the charming man behind the soldier's uniform.
'What he says, he does.' 'People say if Khargesahab has said something, it will be set in stone.'
Two years after Major Akshay Girish sacrificed his life fighting terrorists in J&K, his mother wonders why his valour wasn't duly recognised.
Ramesh sought to uphold the "prominence" of the Nehru-Gandhi family in the organisational matters in any sort of emerging situation.
'Life has been full of rewards, full of sadness.'
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'Happy Wife Happy Life!' exclaims Varun Dhawan.
