'Despite a quarter century since India began the uphill battle of moving away from its peculiar hybrid of imperial-feudal-socialism, it remains distressingly -- and sometimes reassuringly -- the country I left in 1986,' says Rahul Jacob.
He didn't let cerebral palsy come in the way of his boxing dreams.
HealthifyMe is an app that connects users to fitness trainers virtually, motivate them on goals.
A data plan currently priced at Rs 100 should not cost more than Rs 34, if India has to make the Internet affordable for 80 per cent of its population.
Simran Multani, Founder of Ovenderful puts her passion for baking classic bakes in raising funds to help abandoned and maltreated animals.
One needs to carefully tread the thin but solid line between the sublime & the ridiculous.
Here are some valuable skills we wish we had learned in college to prepare us for real life.
Preetisheel Singh lets us into some star secrets.
Russi Mody could cut across hierarchy to communicate what he wanted.
38-year-old Brad Hodge and 41-year-old Pravin Tambe engineered a comfortable 30-run victory for Rajasthan Royals against Highveld Lions of South Africa in the Champions League T20, on Wednesday.
Cyberstalking is a real threat as social media increasingly becomes an extension of one's life. But there are things you can do to protect yourself from it
While India have been busy with their preparations in Sri Lanka, focus among the locals is slowly shifting to their heroic batsman Kumar Sangakkara.
'That has always been my ambition -- to take the reader behind the scenes, to the places he was not allowed to visit, but which I had the privilege of entering.' Haresh Pandya remembers Ted Corbett, sports journalist extraordinaire, who passed into the ages on August 9.
Despite being in the crosshairs of the police, politicians and vigilantes, Malini Subramaniam continues to report from a hotbed of Maoist insurgency.
Use the first one hour of your day to review your pending tasks and finish them.
Museo Camera, tucked away in a basement in Gurgaon, has over 500 cameras of all vintages as well as 20,000 silver prints
Solo female traveller Swati Jain, who quit her job to travel, speaks of her adventures, challenges, learnings and what keeps her going.
Based on your star signs, we try to tell you what career would be best suited for you.
The murders of journalists in 2015 underscore the rising power of regional language media, especially local-language newspapers, says Nilanjana S Roy
An Aadhaar card can fast-track the KYC procedure for some instruments.
Despite having the third-largest internet user base in the world, India does not feature in the top ten e-commerce markets
R K Laxman immortalised the passive, hapless common man with an uncanny perception
'It is important to make a clear distinction between the officers and jawans. The officers retire at 54 and with two extensions can go up to 58 years before they go home. A jawan on the other hand retires at 38. Therefore, to portray a picture that all army men retire young is wrong.'
The going has never been easy for author Cyrus Mistry, who suffers from a nervous disorder. The reclusive author, who bagged the prestigious South Asian literature award, talks openly to P B Chandra about his illness and how writing has helped him cope with it.
It is in coal consumption that India most diverges from the rest of the world
Nagaland-born Carol Humtsoe talks about about her journey as a model.
Leave your work at your workstation; don't tag it along everywhere you go!
Taapsee Pannu explains why she doesn't want to be an actor all her life.
A young Mumbai artist brings the city alive.
Australian model Ilana Davies gets candid with Rediff.com's Tista Sengupta.
'I live in a privileged city, I have a privileged life, I was in a car.' 'If it can happen here, then there is literally no hope for women in rural India or smaller cities.' 'If more women think we can help ourselves, we can survive, and men would be a lot more hesitant to try something like this.'
While information technology companies will benefit, firms with high foreign borrowings or heavy dependence on imports will be hurt.
It will be safe to incur these costs initially to prevent any problems in the future, which would be far more expensive, in terms of money, time and effort.
In an online chat with readers, Prof Ujjwal Chowdhary from Edutainment offered tips on pursuing a career in media, design and communication.
COP 21 is about how much carbon space is left and who gets how much of that space
'We need uranium to fuel our reactors. Our scientists and engineers have been handling uranium safely since 1967. They must not feel disheartened by the activities of well motivated local or foreign agencies.'
'I don't want a government to tell me that I can't be there for my sister's wedding.'
© 2026 Rediff.com - Investor Information - Advertise with us - Disclaimer - Privacy Policy - Sitemap - Feedback - About us - Terms of use - Grievances