Over the years, a noticeable unpleasantness began to develop between senior and junior, Sorabjee and Salve. Salve gave credit, for his rise in the profession, to Nani Palkhivala, and not to Sorabjee. This hurt Sorabjee, though he never admitted it.
If people respect our culture and interests, why should anyone become more regressive? Education will not be saffronised. Just the correct picture will be portrayed and facts not distorted.' Dr Dinanath Batra, who successfully litigated to have Penguin withdraw copies of Wendy Doniger's book on Hinduism, tells Rediff.com's Vicky Nanjappa what India will be like if the BJP under Narendra Modi forms the next government.
Unlike the Germans, Britons began to face the hard truths about their colonial empire only recently.
Count among The Light of Asia's many, many admirers over 132 years: Gandhi, Tagore, Vivekananda, Nehru and Ambedkar, Tolstoy and Kipling, Yeats and Eliot, Alfred Nobel, Dmitri Mendeleev and C V Raman. Jairam Ramesh reveals why he decided to write a book on Edwin Arnold, who wrote The Light of Asia.
'Name?' 'Amitabh.' 'Can't be only Amitabh. Amitabh what?' 'Bachchan. Amitabh Bachchan.' Alarm bells. 'Are you related to Dr Bachchan?' 'Yes,' he hesitated, 'he is my father.' 'Then this contract cannot be signed today. He is my old friend. I cannot give you this contract without his permission.' A fascinating excerpt from K A Abbas's Sone Chandi Ke Buth.
Sachin Tendulkar loved the biryani so much that he wanted to have it the next day as well.
It will be some time before the literary world knows another sensation like Harry Potter
'There is no harm in children studying the Vedas; it is part of Indian culture and history... The aim is not to saffronise education,' Shiksha Bachao Andolan chief Dinanath Batra tells Vicky Nanjappa/Rediff.com
Stacey Bendet's Alice + Olivia presentation at the New York Fashion Week was inspired by Salman Rushdie's The Enchantress of Florence.
Colouring books for adults are helping people loosen up and rediscover their childhood.
Two Nobel Laureates, four listed writers of this year's Man Booker Prize, Pulitzer Prize winners and finalists, winners of Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Crossword Prize and film stars will be the attraction at the most sought after literary event in India -- the Jaipur Literature Festival.
'The British conquered India by Indian money...' Mahmood Farooqui, historian and co-director of Peepli [Live]! in a fascinating interview.
'You've got to be a doer to be re-elected.' 'You don't have to be a great communicator or an orator any more because voters want to see action and development on the ground.' 'And they want a doer rather than just an orator.'
The sarod maestro launched his book, Master On Masters.
His mother was so furious with him that she made him eat karela for lunch and dinner for an entire week.
The concluding part of the A to Z guide to a year that will soon become history.
Penguin India has decided to publish the maestro's biography.
In Khushwant Singh photographer Mustafa Quraishi found a grandfather he always wanted.
'I'm apologising to everyone whose sentiments are hurt because of the chaos around my memoir,' says the actor.
Set mostly aboard the Ibis, 'a vessel into which (the author) poured his ideas', the book has a vast multicultural cast of characters and speaks several tongues -- the unique patois of the lascars -- a unique breed of multiethnic seafarers -- and ancient curses straight out of Hobson-Dobson.
Rai says the story is a 'sordid saga of the relations between the Indian state and minorities'.
'It is the regional parties and their leaders who are the ones we have to watch.'
The Case of the Bonsai Manager is not about plants or Perry Mason. It's about today's managers who, author, R Gopalakrishnan suggests, need to learn to be more intuitional in decision-making.
'Sridevi was known as this elusive movie star, but there was a ticking brain there that I don't think she got enough credit for.'
On a visit to India in 2013, writer Ved Mehta -- who passed into the ages on Sunday January 10, 2021 - gave Rediff.com's Vaihayasi Pande Daniel a rare glimpse into his state of mind and what he thinks of the changes he encounters in his motherland.
Devdutt Pattanaik responds to the decision by Penguin to withdraw and pulp Wendy Doniger's book The Hindus: An Alternative History.
Another book on Hinduism by American indologist Wendy Doniger has come under attack from the same Delhi-based group which had compelled the publishers of an earlier work by her to withdraw the title.
'Buddy knows more about Raju's films because he sits in the editing room.' 'He has seen Sanju a number of times already!'
The inclination for sex also increases because the messiness of periods, the need for contraception and the fear of pregnancy are over, the nest is empty and her partner retired, with all the time in the world at their disposal to indulge in such activities, which makes them enjoy it all the more!
Samuel Stokes made India his home and participated in the freedom struggle. He was the only American to be imprisoned for sedition; the British CID maintained a special file on him.
On Tuesday, Section 66A of Information Technology Act was struck down. However, these other laws could still spell trouble for free speech
'Will it lead to a full-scale war? I doubt it.' 'But I do think there will be some kind of limited conflict.'
By framing the right question, Satya Nadella directed his team's attention to searching for the right answer, which opened up a treasure trove of new business opportunities, which would have remained undiscovered but for framing the right question.
Naseerrudin Shah speaks about his first wife Purveen and her pregnancy and how he neglected her and his first child Heeba excerpted from the autobiography And Then One Day: A Memoir.
In photos: A Miss India's journey to the Miss World crown.
'Everything they read on social media, they believe, is the truth.' 'One of the biggest challenges in the country today is how to counter fake news and propaganda.'
How a bus conductor named Shivaji Gaekwad became the mega-phenomenon called Rajinikanth.
'If the State does want to come after you, in India, it can do pretty much anything. And often it isn't as though the orders are coming from the President or prime minister, no, the systems have been built in a way -- or we have allowed them to be built in a way -- that almost encourages crushing of liberties.'
