The girl who stumped Obama

In our year-end special, Rediff.com looks at people who wrote the India story this year. Afsheen Irani, a Mumbai college student, asked the one question everyone wanted to ask the most powerful......

'Don't make Pak an ally, India a market'

Rajya Sabha MP Tarun Vijay records his impressions of Barack Obama's speech in Parliament and reveals what the BJP told the US President: I took out my new bandh gala, no less than a Wendell......

'The answers could have been better'

Rediff.com's Krishnakumar P was present at St Xavier's College when Mumbai collegians took on the most powerful man on the planet. First they welcomed him with an ovation befitting that of a......