'It would have been easy to play Danny like a bad guy, but then, at the end, the audience might well have said, "Why is Latika still stuck with this ass**** when he is giving her so much grief?"'
Biju Menon tells Divya Nair/Rediff.com how he transformed himself to play a 73 year old character, one of his most challenging and satisfying roles as an actor.
The celebrity chef has been inspiring people to go vegan.
Great chefs are alchemists. They put ingredients and flavours together in ways that are sometimes unfathomable, says Rahul Jacob.
Effects of the pandemic were all too stark as the rituals were performed with face masks on.
T N Seshan believed that toughness at every level is needed to keep the flock under him strictly duty bound, recalls Dr K S Parthasarathy, former secretary, Atomic Energy Regulatory Board.
Plum is -- in no particular order -- a high energy bar, a restaurant for a five-course meal and a delectable home decor store.
Rediff reader Shilpa Parasrampuria, 43, from Mumbai reveals how she lost 12 kilos in six months.
You don't need to visit a super-expensive restaurant for great food. The Bohri Kitchen is one such unique dining option says Harnoor Channi Tiwary
In its latest campaign, Dalda is stressing that it's now a refined oil brand and no longer just a vanaspati offering.
With India already having a huge population of meat eaters and about 70 per cent of the people being non-vegetarian, Indian entrepreneurs are hotting up the online meat market.
Of the seven surveys presented under Modi govt, predictions of three were quite close to the actual GDP growth rate, one saw the base year change in between, but the last three were way off the mark.
Food blogger Preeti Alam shares a step by step procedure to making juicy kebabs at home.
An encounter with movie veteran Chandrashekhar.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday surprised some members of Parliament having lunch in Parliament's canteen as he suddenly landed there to join them
We need to clarify the rules for legal slaughterhouses and make sure that these can be enforced.
'Our prime minister has set a scorching pace. He's logged more airline miles than professional airline pilots... On his regular visits to Delhi, he has also signed files galore.' 'How much of this activity has translated into useful action on the ground,' asks Devangshu Datta.
Every home across India makes khichdi and it still isn't as celebrated as it should be.
Rediff readers share their experience of eating on the Indian Railways.
Modi also stressed on important issues like the need to preserve and embrace nature.
The proposed SEZ will have various facilities including processing centers and cold storage and other critical infrastructure facilities required for marine food exports.
The much talked about dinner with Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal at Bangalore on Saturday had around 200 people attending it. While the event, according to the AAP, was a fund raiser, many felt that it was an extended version of Kejriwal's speech which they have been hearing all these days.
Water is going to be a central part of the government's 2024 election campaign. And Gajendra Singh Shekhawat's work will be crucial for it.
'The people who stay with us were not born orphans; they have been abandoned.'
Where the most popular camel fair in the world is on...
Because we mirror his beliefs, says Savera R Someshwar.
The group has been encouraging people to sign a petition calling for the withdrawal of the notes as vegans and vegetarians continued to express outrage at the use of tallow, a substance derived from animal fat.
Wellness expert Roopashree Sharma tells you how you can use natural methods to improve your health.
My son and his wife are now spending a holiday in pursuit of chicken, says Kishore Singh.
'In enacting the citizenship law, the BJP's focus has been so much on consolidating its Hindu vote bank all over the country to divert attention from the economic downturn that the party forgot that there are Hindus and Hindus and that one group of Hindus may not always be warmly embraced by another,' notes Amulya Ganguli.
A food consultant tries to channel her healthier side, and here's what she discovers.
SOTC, Tourism Malaysia & Singapore Tourism Board presents the eight day Malaysia Singapore Extravaganza Tour for Rs 41,900.
'Given this dissonance between India's age-old multicultural tenets and the anti-minority temper of the present times, it cannot be easy for the BJP to maintain its balancing act to convince the world that all is well,' observes Amulya Ganguli.
A visit to the Palpung Sherabling Monastery where monks are free to choose their own paths.
It is all about a C and C model -- of choices and consequences -- for women. Women make choices about their lives and for each of them there will be consequences, Shell India Lubricants MD Mansi Madan Tripathy tells Jyoti Mukul.
Celebrity nutritionists Niti Desai will be available to provide diet tips for a healthy heart Wednesday October 8, 2014, between 3 pm and 4 pm.
The relative ranking of castes can vary across regions and localities and depends on a number of factors including control over land, wealth, and political power. Castes have often tried to 'upgrade' themselves (a process sociologists refer to as Sanskritization), and sometimes get 'downgraded'. A revealing excerpt from Upinder Singh's Ancient India: Culture Of Contradictions.
From India's first Vietnamese restaurant to a molecular restaurant, Gitanjali Gurbaxani lists her choices for a monsoon treat in Bengaluru.
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