These crispy masala vadas are called Chattambade in Karnataka.
Arjun Menon looks at some Tamil films from the last decade that tick all the right boxes, and lists where you can watch them.
Directed by Arun Matheswaran, the film's music will be composed by Ilaiyaraaja himself.
Will Akki, who remade Vijay's Thuppakki in Hindi as Holiday: A Soldier Is Never Off Duty, thwart SRK?
Subhash K Jha celebrates Dhanush's birthday on July 28 by picking five of his favourite Dhanush movies.
Dhanush deserves credit for imagining a visually rich, edgy action thriller which is enhanced by a fascinating background score from A R Rahman, observes Divya Nair.
S Saraswathi brings the latest updates from the Tamil film industry.
RajniSir's latest film is expected to hit nearly 5,000 screens worldwide and will release in four languages.
Was this Chennai? Or Singapore? There's an area in Singapore that looked like a suburb of Chennai.
Discover our country through great Indian rail trips!
A lowdown on what's happening in the Tamil film industry.
With polls to elect the 18th Lok Sabha approaching, district poll panels are fixing the rates for expenses as part of the election expenditure monitoring process.
Looking for party starters for New Year?
Several food and grocery delivery firms witnessed their highest ever single-day orders on New Year eve, December 31. Zomato achieved a record-breaking number of orders on its app. The company carried out nearly as many orders on December 31 as the total for the equivalent day in the period from 2015 to 2020.
The latest updates from the Tamil film industry.
S Saraswathi gives us the latest updates from the Tamil film industry.
'Ours is a disaster movie with no big stars, songs or commercial ingredients.' 'Yet, it is Malayalam cinema's highest grosser.'
The latest updates from the Tamil film industry.
'We shot in minus 8 degrees, and Ranbir and Bobby were bare-bodied. That was very tough!'
What should be made out of the Madras high court order involving non-Hindus' entry into Hindu temples, when many non-Hindus are among the hundreds of thousands that have been worshipping at these temples for generations, asks N Sathiya Moorthy.
Aseem Chhabra looks at the year's best Non-Hindi Indian movies.
Follow these 10 Chennai foodies to track down the great restaurants and awesome food there!
One meal at a time, Vision Rescue's Biju Thampy hopes to turn around the destiny of street kids in Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata.
Rediff readers share their experiences of eating on Indian trains.
N Kalyanasundaram started saving up last year so that he could feed the hungry during the second COVID lockdown.
How many of the 319 films Aseem Chhabra watched in 2018 have you seen?
To a query, "Isn't there a mind block about mixing music with management?" Krishna responded: "Most people think that in art there is no business, but art doesn't exist without business. At one level it's our livelihood, but unless we know how to market our future we cannot survive. Business goes with art, but in no way overshadows the brilliance or greatness of the art."
His rags-to-riches story would make a film. Meet Musthafa P C, the man behind ready-to-use breakfast foods that countless Indians trust.
There's a lot happening in Bollywood, Hollywood and world cinema this year.
Choose from the eight releases this week.
Mumbai-based culinary expert, recipe developer and food curator Gita Hari shares recipes for Kamala Harris.
Bang in the middle of Chennai, A Ganesh Nadar experiences a culinary delight that brings back fond memories of his childhood.
Aseem Chhabra picks the finest Indian films in the 2010-2019 decade.
MasterChef Australia Season 13 winner Justin Narayan speaks about his Indian roots.
'So South Indian, it would be idli with... a really good sambar, and then north Indian -- probably any kind of tikka.' Hmm. You can take a girl out her mom's country, but you can't take the country out of the girl!'
A Ganesh Nadar wonders what Kamal Hassan hopes to achieve with this film.
Over four days all of Tamil Nadu is caught up in celebrating Pongal, the state's harvest festival. From a bonfire to worshipping cattle, it is a throwback to a time when society was agrarian, says A Ganesh Nadar/Rediff.com.
Before opening its first outlet in the country on November 9, the US fast food chain, Burger King Corporation, had approached the HC seeking an assurance that companies it had sued for trademark infringement will not approach lower courts for stay orders against its launch.
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