'When Sachin Tendulkar bats, no one in India cares if he is from Mumbai or if he is a Hindu or a Brahmin or whatever.' 'We just want him to win it for India.' 'The same is with Modi and the people who voted across caste and regional lines for him.' We want him to win it for India,' says Madhu A K.
A month and half back, Ravichandran Ashwin was eloquently explaining on his Tamil YouTube channel, why a talent like Tilak Varma should be seriously considered for the ODI World Cup.
India's Muslims need to assert their educational and economic upliftment and political empowerment rather than be provoked by communal remarks, says Mohammad Sajjad, reflecting on the Malda riot.
Relationship coaches help you decode toxic behaviour and how it can potentially damage your mental health and your relationship with your partner.
A grammatical problem which has defeated Sanskrit scholars since the 5th century BC has finally been solved by an Indian PhD student at the University of Cambridge, it emerged, as his thesis was published on Thursday.
'Can he be the statesman that a divided nation needs?' 'Not remotely, but by following his gut, he may yet surprise the scores upon scores of naysayers,' says Vikram Johri.
'...to bring the Global South and others to the negotiating table on the basis of Gandhi's non-violence so that we can leave a safer world for our children.'
Modi govt has a unique style of working, say experts.
Although the India-Japan relationship has its own driving forces in terms of robust economic ties and shared values, China is the elephant in the room in the strategic parleys between the two countries, says Rup Narayan Das.
In Budget 2015, the finance minister has opted to take the slow road and has doubled the cess on coal to "balance the need to tax pollution and the price of power" in his words.
Aziz Haniffa/Rediff.com reports from Washington, DC, on what makes Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Barack Obama get along so well.
Clearly then, when buying a share, we should calculate whether its price is justified by what the company will earn in the future.
'With the recent challenging of the notion of the Indian Ocean Region being India's strategic backyard, China is gradually upping the ante in the maritime realm around India.'
As soon as Shiv announced Nimrit as the captain, Tina lost her cool and started fighting with both of them.
Have you ever faced terms such as 'service tax', 'VAT' and 'service charge' while eating out at a restaurant. However, instead of asking the restaurant authorities about these terms and their application, have you simply paid up to avoid any potentially embarrassing social encounter? Fear not, after reading this article, you won't face any such problems again.
Here is an explainer and a timeline relating to India's purchase of 36 combat jets.
As Indian democracy deepens, power shifts will continue to happen and the middle class needs to accept that all such power shifts may not be in their favour, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
As Indian democracy deepens, power shifts will continue to happen and the middle class needs to accept that all such power shifts may not be in their favour, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
While the positive surprise has been the high growth in agriculture, the negative surprise is in the trade, transport, hotels segment where growth came lower than expected, says Madan Sabnavis.
Stock markets will focus on global trends for further direction in this holiday-shortened week as the earnings season is largely over, analysts said. Trade experts expect the key benchmark indices to move sideways as investors are trying to decode the impact of rising inflation on foreign portfolio investments. Inflation data released by the US and China last week have fanned fears of earlier than expected rate hike and boosted US bond yields.
Besides the polarisation in favour of the BJP, there could be other reasons for the under-representation of Muslims too, says Shafeeq Rahman.
The government had pegged food subsidy at Rs 90,000 crore (Rs 900 billion) in the 2013-14 Union Budget.
So Congress has taken the plunge into the world of social networking. Though late in the game the party has realised the need to reach out to an estimated 8 crore people who use online networking, to aggressively counter the BJP campaign against it on corruption and propagate the UPA government's achievements. Anita Katyal reports.
Deciphering its secrets will unlock the early history of not only our planet, but also of the star system, explains Kumar Abishek.
The bank will give 3.25 per cent interest on savings bank deposits with a balance exceeding Rs 100,000. At present, the interest rate is 3.5 per cent.
The decision was taken in a high-level review meeting chaired by principal secretary to prime minister PK Mishra.
Sitting comfortably with a 304-run lead, India vice-captain Ajinkya Rahane said the plans of batting just once during the match seems to have worked for the team.
How do you bring about better nutrition consciousness in a society that is quite apathetic to excess consumption of salt, sugar and fats? asks Ambi Parameswaran.
The JNU VC said the "status of shudras given to women in Manusmriti" makes it extraordinarily regressive.
The BJP's national leadership seems to have convinced itself that with a weakened, post-Jaya AIADMK for company, they should be able to strike roots before long, and start by winning about 10-15 Lok Sabha seats in 2019, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
A technique to 'crack-the-code' of the deadly H5N1 avian influenza virus had been developed by a team of researchers, led by Professor Mark von Itzstein at Griffith University Institute for Glycomics, Queensland, in collaboration with the Hong Kong University-Institute, said ScienceDaily.
'My eyes were too small (to convey) expressions. I was too hairy. I did not have a great physique. (In this profession) you just keep on working on your minus points and try to improve yourself as much as you can.'
'Everybody was very nervous and I think that resulted in our defeat'
Yuvraj Singh has been an enigma as well as a paradox in Indian cricket.
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Fantasy novelist Samit Basu encounters Ra.One. Exclusive to Rediff.com
In the formation of the council of ministers, the compulsions of keeping the party leaders and alliance partners happy took precedence over the goal of rationalising existing ministries
'Hindus have never been polarised across Maharashtra in any state election.'
Here's what went into styling the lead actors of Zoya Akhtar's new film, Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara.
Considering the common linkages, high-level trust, complementarities, and convergent interests between the two nations, Malaysia has the potential to become India's key partner in Southeast Asia, says Dr Rahul Mishra.
