Who better than India's beloved storyteller to teach you how to spin a yarn?
Planning a holiday? Bollywood has a lovely variety to choose from!
'At a meeting with a director of a business school, I told him there are over 3,000 business schools producing some four to six lakh MBA graduates a year. Industry cannot absorb so many MBAs, even if the economy grows at 9 per cent a year. If this is the case, why spend lakhs to send your son or daughter to a business school, I wondered. He explained I had missed the point. Getting your son or daughter through business school improves their rate in the marriage market. The boy can command a better dowry; and the girl can get a simple job, maybe find a boy and bring down the dowry rate.' Ambi Parameswaran decodes The Big Fat Indian Wedding.
Ten images that prove it's a wonderfully bizarre world.
Simran Dhir's very readable debut novel Best Intentions portrays the colours as well as the privilege and politics of Delhi life.
'When people who ignored us, when relatives who have not spoken to us for a long time, congratulated us, it was a proud moment for my mother.'
Considering it narrates seven stories about the different facets of life, Zindagi In Short is shockingly lifeless, Joginder Tuteja observes.
Melania Trump, wife of the Republican presidential candidate said that two were engaged in "boy talk, and he was led on, like egged on from the host to say dirty and bad stuff".
'The guilt and shame that comes just from the fact that you are a woman and you want to buy a condom is ten times more.' 'You are put through ten times more shame and guilt just because you are a woman!'
This Mohanlal suspense drama may well go down as yet another modern day classic, raves Joginder Tuteja.
Farhan Akhtar, in first person, about the role that transformed his career as an actor.
If Irrfan could have been our finest professor of empirical philosophy, and Nawaz is our foremost poet of that space halfway between the gutter and the stars, then Jaideep Ahlawat has to be our greatest artist-scientist, asserts Sreehari Nair.
'Whoever owns the best chip industry will be the Saudi Arabia of the era of data,' predicts Rajeev Srinivasan.
Janhvi Kapoor does well as the girl trying to assert her 'kaabiliyat', observes Sukanya Verma.
Lockdown or not, Bollywood stars like to keep us updated about what is happening in their lives.
The Brazilian model's vacay pics will make you super jealous.
...and getting GDP to measure India's data economy, recommends Ajit Balakrishnan.
This time, India may win as many as 17 medals at the Games.
Manchester City came from behind twice to earn a 2-2 draw with Liverpool in a breathless and pulsating Premier League encounter, at Anfield, on Sunday. All four goals came in the second half.
'Oscar has been given to A R Rahman.' Ringa Ringa Ringa, Choli ki peeche kya hai -- What's the difference? Exactly the same. Also, Jai ho.' 'I did Ramba ho in 1985.' 'Rahman combined three of my songs and got Best Original Score.' 'The Ho came from me.' 'Bappi Lahiri brought the Ho to Bollywood.'
In this weekly self-help series, mental health and life coach Anu Krishna tells you how to take control of your life.
'They have the greatest number of cricketers, they have the greatest enthusiasm for the game, they have the greatest resources, they have the greatest stakes in their own success.'
Why does any talk about reproduction, or condoms, or sanitary napkins make us so uncomfortable, wonders Divya Nair.
'If I can, then anyone can,' the tennis ace wrote in an inspiring post sharing her incredible fitness journey.
'Alia's security watched the film with us -- he belongs to the Simmba audience because he saw it multiple times and loved it.' 'After watching Gully Boy, there were tears in his eyes.' 'And he's a 120 kilo muscular guy!'
A special screening of Gurinder Chadha's new film Partition: 1947 was held in a theatre in Mumbai.
Hari Puttar is an exuberant, hilarious film, directed by Lucky Kohli. Though the similarity from Hollywood's blockbuster Home Alone is impossible to miss, you'll probably forgive the makers in favour of the constant laughs the film provides.
'Daniel Craig was my first choice but he requested if we could allow some time as he was also being considered to be the next James Bond.'
Ireland's most prolific goal-scorer Robbie Keane announced his retirement on Wednesday after an 18-year career in which he scored 67 goals for his country to put him 15th on the list of all-time international marksmen.
Tanishq Abraham has already been accepted by two universities to study medicine.
Rediff readers take the 10 year challenge and tell us how their lives have changed.
Adoptathon is one of Asia's largest annual stray adoption camp.
Relationship problems? Let Love Guru help.
A tete-a-tete with 23-year old novelist of the Gameworld trilogy.
Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who is the dishiest of them all?
Jack The Giant Slayer is a memorable fantasy but it doesn't have exceptional visuals.
Jack The Giant Slayer is a memorable fantasy but it doesn't have exceptional visuals.
Liverpool have extended captain Jordan Henderson's contract, the Premier League side said on Tuesday, putting an end to speculation over his future at the Merseyside club.
There will certainly be some distinct home advantage for Australia along with the experience of playing more Day/Night Tests.
