In 2015, she was the most googled person. In 2017, she was the most tweeted Filipino celebrity.
Rasheed Kidwai, associate editor of The Telegraph newspaper who is the author of Sonia: A biography and 24 Akbar Road, made an exclusive appearance on Rediff Chat on Monday where he fielded wide-ranging questions about the Presidential poll. Here is the transcript from the chat..
Siddhartha Mukherjee, the Indian origin American physician who won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, has added another literary accolade by winning the Guardian First Book Award for his "biography" of cancer, The Emperor of All Melodies.
'They have been compromised, have taken favours, have other interests and are the people who have betrayed the profession,' legendary editor Vinod Mehta tells Sheela Bhatt.
A year after Osama bin Laden's death, Al Qaeda is determined to make stay alive, feels Hamid Mir, the last journalist to interview bin Laden.
After his recently published autobiography Whatever the Odds, he's already looking forward to a biography, where he's known as a giver more than anything else.
Swami Kriyananda, then a young American who had become Yogananda's disciple at age 22 and who became one of his trusted lieutenants, has come out with an intimate and powerful story of Yogananda, betraying knowledge only an insider would claim. It is a biography that needs to be read but, Kriyananda warns, it is not a hagiography
A Nedumudi Venu character was happiest when moving his head to a piece of music with his eyes closed; or, when inventing off of a note that a co-actor had left unfinished; or, when reciting a poem by Kavalam Narayana Panicker where a hymn about nature descends into a musing about cheating, depression and death, feels Sreehari Nair.
E-commerce major Flipkart has been ranked second among top book sellers of the world.
Banning books shows insecurity of the political class, says Praful Bidwai.
After Michelle Obama and Lady Gaga, golfer Tiger Woods has become the latest celebrity to get his own unauthorised biography in a comic book.
'The Congress today has lost contact with the Hindu clergy.' 'They go to to Hindu clergy only during the time of elections.'
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Several online stores have listed Steve Jobs books as top sellers after the man behind the iconic i-products passed away last week. Faced with huge demand, many stores across cities have had to put up 'out of stock' signs.
'I end up reading everything in fiction, but am biased against more 'intellectual' works and non-fiction. I read for pure enjoyment, and if something doesn't interest me -- even if it is at the top of the best-seller lists -- I won't read it.'
'Being a cricketer, I will say that the game needs to be globalised, without any doubt'
Indian origin cancer physician and researcher Dr Sidhhartha Mukherjee was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the top journalism award in America, for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, non-fiction, literature and music.
We take a look at Libya's Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, who has been Africa's and the Arab world's longest-ruling, most erratic leader, presiding for 42 years over this desert republic with vast oil reserves and just 6 million people.
Emergence of malpractice in the delivery system is the biggest threat.
Indian-American physician Siddhartha Mukherjee's acclaimed book on cancer, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, has won the prestigious 2011 Pulitzer Prize in the general non-fiction category. According to the Pulitzer citation, the book by the New York-based cancer physician and researcher is "an elegant inquiry, at once clinical and personal, into the long history of an insidious disease that, despite treatment breakthroughs, still bedevils medical science".
'It is inevitable when he pleases those who share his Hindutva ideology that at the same time he can alienate those who do not feel he speaks for them.'
India has no idiosyncratic innovation ecosystem, distinctively its own. Our VCs will not rush to fund brilliant ideas, says R Gopalakrishnan.
Steve Jobs had suggested Bill Clinton to "tell the country" about Monica Lewinsky when the former United States president sought the late Apple co-founder's advice on tackling the sex scandal 13 years back, says a new book.
United States President Barack Obama's father had intended to put his unborn son up for adoption, as the senior Obama tried to appease US immigration officials who raised concerns about him having two wives as well as his "playboy ways", a new book has revealed.
Excerpts from Madhubala's first ever biography.
Aseem Chhabra introduces you to the Irrfan you never knew.
Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr are among the heroes of United States President Barack Obama, a senior Obama administration official has said. "Barack Obama, first African-American president and a student of those principles, identifies Gandhi's autobiography and Taylor Branch's terrific three-part biography of King, as works that helped shape him," Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Robert Blake said.
Pakistani journalist and Rediff.com contributor Hamid Mir interviewed Osama bin Laden thrice. Mir, who works for Pakistan's Geo TV network, was the only journalist to interview bin Laden after 9/11.Hamid Mir, who is writing bin Laden's biography, reveals what the world's most wanted terrorist was really like.
Tawang is very much a part of India, and if the present Dalai Lama decides one day to take rebirth in Tawang, the Indian government will openly welcome him and support him, notes Claude Arpi.
Indian batsman Yuvraj Singh finds himself in a rather unflattering list with a British newspaper naming him as one of the 'top 10 sporting egos' of recent times.
'It is not the country's interests alone that lead to all this secrecy.' 'More usually, the reason is the threat from political rivals: What will they do if they find out?', notes T C A Srinivasa Raghavan.
How Naushad boosted Rafi's morale... Tune first or lyrics first? Raju Bharatan reveals some secrets of the Hindi film music industry.
Meet Pooja Vaidya, a commerce grad from Mumbai, who won the Mood Indigo contest at IIT Powai in 2011 and never looked back.
While Tata Motors had to shift its Rs 100,000-car project in 2008, JK Organisation had move all its businesses from the state way back in 1969.
The top posts on social media from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
The book, 'Shivaji, Hindu King in Muslim India', allegedly having derogatory comments on the Maratha king, has been at the centre of a controversy.
The army is celebrating the 17th Kargil Vijay Diwas to commemorate the victory in the war against Pakistan.
'Khan Market is useful if not central to our existence,' says Kishore Singh.
Author Nasreen Munni Kabir talks about her book on the star composer, A R Rahman: The Spirit of Music.
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