'Sridevi was a responsible mother.' 'I have heard her talking about her daughters.' 'Once in a while, they came on set. She would make sure she had time for them.' 'That's why she could play a mother so wonderfully in English Vinglish.'
A survey conducted by Business Standard reveals that a majority of the country's states are still firmly against the move, while a few are open to considering only conditionally.
And then came the chief moment of Friday. If the courtroom had a soundtrack, Beethoven's 9th would be playing, providing a triumphant, dramatic prologue to the production of this last clip. A woman reporter was asking Mekhail about Sanjeev Khanna. He says clearly, without mincing words, emphatically: 'Never seen him. First time I am hearing his name.'
Monsanto has taken the government to court over the royalty.
Reader Sarani Tarafder tells us how to make Jalebis in 30 minutes.
Rediff reader Charu shares these quick and easy snacks recipes to enjoy this Diwali!
Radamel Falcao's hopes of playing at the World Cup finals hung by a thread on Thursday after his Ligue 1 club Monaco announced the Colombia striker required surgery on a left knee injury.
Being trendy was never this simple!
In a career spanning nearly three decades, Floyd Cardoz has always drawn on food memories to create a new culinary language.
VJ turned chef and author Maria Goretti talks about how she got interested in food.
In the second of a six-part series, Sanjay Jog of Business Standard walks across the streets of Indore to find out how it has been hit by demonetisation.
14 Gifts Every Woman Actually Wants This Women's Day
Make modern meals from ancient grains.
Because no other leader cared for Indians as selflessly as he did -- and it all started from a remote corner at the edge of this vast country, 100 years ago.
The very filmi Valentine's Day Special!
Sarvesh Agrawal tells Shobha Warrier about how he built a start-up "of the interns, by the interns and for the interns."
'With technology advancing rapidly, the need for branches is declining.'
'It was the first document he had seen that asked him about his past in such detail; it was the only interest this country (America) had shown in his origins, and it was most inconvenient. To get ahead, he had to find out where he had come from.'
Viveat Susan Pinto & Niraj Bhatt in conversation with Nirvik Singh, chairman and CEO, Grey Group.
The country saw two straight years of deficient monsoons.
Could the Haji Ali dargah verdict be the beginning of the end of all social discrimination -- against women, against Dalits, the low castes and the caste-less, asks Durba Dhyani.
In the second part of a series, we bring you recipes from chef Vikas Khanna's latest book.
The prices of oilseed, coarse cereals & vegetables could also be affected.
Culinary legend Satish Arora hangs up his apron after almost 5 decades of service at the Taj group of hotels.
Mini Ribeiro lists down 10 of her favourite comfort monsoon foods.
'A lot of fraud films are being made in the name of realistic cinema.'
It is not often that Goswami's Nation-Wants-to-Know shows become material evidence in a murder trial no less. Nor was it something CBI Special Judge J C Jagdale was wildly enthused about. It had to be done because as he put it to CBI Special Public Prosecutor Kavita Patil caustically: "Your witnesses gave interviews to channels about a serious crime."
Bengali film Asha Jaoar Majhe is a must watch, a once in the lifetime kind of work that should be supported by film lovers and experienced on the big screen, writes Aseem Chhabra.
It is domestic policy distortions and inaction to correct them that lie behind the large CADs.
Hepzi Anthony examines the curious case of the white-collared farmer.
Sukanya Verma talks about her yet another fun filmi week!
'There is a great scope for enhancing the use of organic fertilisers'.
'Post Independence, it is for the first time that people have Rs 500 in their pocket, but the family is sleeping without food.'
Mekhail hopped off the bench in a hurry and turning his back to Indrani, stood at the window. Indrani ignored him too. Mekhail is getting married later this year. His mother will, of course, not be in attendance. Nor, of course, would he want her to be there, if she could.
Greg Abel and Ajit Jain would be prime candidates
The question being silently telegraphed around the court room was: When did this happen? Wasn't this trial about Indrani murdering her daughter to prevent her from marrying Rahul Mukerjea, her husband Peter Mukerjea's son from his first marriage?
Besharam is so unbelievably sloppy and senseless, not even the best actors in the business can redeem it.
Mini Ribeiro tells us where to go salad hopping.
Nondescript Bhiwani and Mahendragarh in Haryana, recently named part of the NCR, are likely to see developers queueing up soon and investors betting big on the new hubs.
Have you tasted Besan ke ladoo cookies?
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