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RIP Danish Siddiqui

Danish Siddiqui, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Indian photojournalist who worked with the news agency Reuters, was killed in Kandahar, Afghanistan on Thursday night. Danish was embedded with the......

Mr Xi, what have you gained in Ladakh?

'Why did your generals try to grab a few square kilometres of Indian territory in Ladakh?''And what happened to the hard work that you and Prime Minister Modi put into the Wuhan and Mamallapuram......

Indian Muslims most content in world: RSS chief

Indian Muslims are the most content in the world, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat said while asserting that people from all faiths have stood together whenever it has been......

How Indian soft power can overwhelm Pakistan

'Openness is a great weapon in the armoury of more open societies. That's why the fight with Pakistan isn't just about India be six times bigger, but equally bitter and insecure Pakistan,' argues......

Why was a horrifying rape at BHU hushed up?

The Hindutva brigade's silence on the rape may possibly be explained that this incident is an intra-Hindu affair for them.What is even more intriguing is that vocal gender activists have preferred......

'Demonetisation is theft'

'Demonetisation, is in principal, a mistake, because it involves a theft -- a taking of private property by the State.''It is one of those bad Indian ideas that has been tried twice in the past,......

50 years later, will Moore's Law last?

A 2005 photograph of Gordon E Moore While chips have become ubiquitous, Moore’s Law has remained a self-fulfilling prophecy even half a century later. Not bad for an industry where the time......

Can Jeff Bezos invent a new future for newspapers?

By buying The Washington Post in his personal capacity, the Amazon founder and internet pioneer may just be looking to save an American institution. Two sudden actions in the past few days have......

Why TV ratings need to be left alone

If the blood pressure monitor shows that you have high blood pressure, would you break the monitor or call the doctor? And if TV ratings show that the silliest shows get the best ratings, would you......

Of Bhopal and a democracy we can be proud of

The magnitude of outrage triggered by the miscarriage of justice in the Bhopal gas leak tragedy is a moment of truth for all of us, says Rajni Bakshi. How ironic that the film Rajneeti was released......

'Parveen, I remember not just the star...'

'...but the incredible person you were.''I am deeply thankful for having known you, for the love and the challenges we shared.' On Parveen Babi's 70th birth anniversary on April 4, Mahesh Bhatt......

Cillian! Cillian! Cillian!'

Students and principals at the primary and senior schools that Oscar winner Cillian Murphy attended in Cork, Ireland, tell Rediff.com what the triumph means to them. All Photographs and Videos:......

'Was I in love with Madhubala?'

'I was attracted to her both as a fine co-star and as a person who had some of the attributes I hoped to find in a woman at that age and time,' confesses Dilip Kumar in his autobiography, Dilip......

'Ray is a hit and miss job'

If Netflix and the film's producers thought they would bring younger audiences to the master's works, they have failed with the experiment, says Aseem Chhabra. IMAGE: Manoj Bajpayee in Ray. In......

Daas Dev Review: A soap opera classic

'Sudhir Mishra takes us into the dreams and fears of our politicians, into their self-deceiving pitches, and he shows us their demons and angels,' says Sreehari Nair. Now where did that come from?......

Men's tennis seems so middle-aged...

'Not only are four of the top five fathers, but Federer famously injured a knee, weakened by years of twisting and turning on tennis courts, early this year while giving his elder pair of twins a......

The Muhammad Ali tribute you MUST read!

'Every Ali obituary I read made the point that he 'transcended his sport' -- a reference to the many battles he fought with America even as he fought in America.''What the obituaries leave out is......

Serena Williams flaunts incredible curves on magazine's cover

Tennis ace Serena Williams has graced the cover of the Essence magazine's July 2013 'Body Issue' in a blue ombre swimsuit by Carmen Marc...

Hope springs afresh in West Indies

Appraising West Indies' cricket, even in its present depressed state, induces a sense of awe that so much talent has flowed from a scattering of small, mostly impoverished tropical islands. The......

Sania on Time magazine cover

In another ace for teenage tennis icon Sania Mirza, she became the first Indian sportswoman to feature on the cover of Time magazine and is being included in its 2005 list of Asia's heroes. In the......

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