'When I woke up on New Year's morning last week, it occurred to me that nobody had bothered to investigate how Christmas and the year end were different in my adopted home town of Bournemouth -- a charming place on the south coast of England -- from what played out on the streets of Pala in Kerala. This was clearly an important omission,' says Chindu Sreedharan, and sets out to correct it.
'I can't talk to the media about why Anurag and I split because it would be like writing an entire book to understand and do justice to it,' Kalki Koechlin tells Sonil Dedhia.
2017 is full of long weekends! You won't regret planning your next trip to these wonderful cities.
Gautam Gulati talks about his film Azhar and how life has changed post Bigg Boss!
Raam Reddy gets candid about Thithi, his film journey so far and his next project.
The world must hang its head in shame for being a mute spectator to the 'cultural holocaust' in Tibet, says Major General Mrinal Suman (retd).
The challenges authorities face in cleaning Ganga and other holy rivers in Varanasi.
Aseem Chhabra lists the elements that he loved and was pleasantly surprised by in the movies.
The 16th Mumbai Film Festival had a delicious spread of movies.
Markets across the globe are rallying on hopes that the US Federal Reserve won't lift interest rates until 2016.
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'Both resisted cruel white rule through non-violence. But Mandela's is a singular story. He never lost faith in his ideals and goal even when he was in prison for many years,' Anant Singh, who produced the Mandela biopic, tells Rediff.com's Arthur J Pais.
Without naming the UPA government, he attacked it over alleged corruption and flagged his government's 'honest' credentials.
It has been over two years since Husain Haqqani was forced to resign from the coveted post of Pakistan's envoy to the United States.
'Masaan is history for me. This is another journey with Raman Raghav 2.0. You have to clean your slate after every film, and not let its success or failure affect you.' Vicky Kaushal moves on, with Raman Raghav 2.0.
Sobhita Dhulipala makes her debut with Raman Raghav 2.0.
'The year in pictures' treks across the globe, looking back on the moments that shaped 2016. From the United States presidential race, to demonetisation in India to the refugee crisis, the news has kept pouring in. Here are our top 50 moments from the world.
Left fuming by the West Indian cricketers' mid-series pullout due to a pay dispute with their Board, the BCCI has slapped a damages claim to the tune of Rs 250 crore ($42 million) on the WICB.
It's been 16 years since Rajeev Samant launched the first Sula wine by selling 50,000 cases. Today Sula is on track to sell a million cases this year.
A look at the top posts on social media from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
'A person should not be caught in the pursuit of enjoyment alone, he should experience enlightenment too. I mean, there should be action and motion. We must enjoy the action, not the motion,' BKS Iyengar told Rediff.com in September 2000.
'It would be rude to reject a girl who kisses me. So I kissed Diandra back. There was nothing more than that. I am going to marry the girl that my mother chooses for me.' Bigg Boss 8 winner Gautam Gulati is ready to move on.
Parag Saigaonkar, author of The Perfect Storm in an interview lists out ten things India's Gen Y should know.
The situation is unlike any other legislation/ordinance that governments at the Centre and states had passed on earlier occasions after the higher judiciary had held certain laws, orders or decisions ultra vires of the Constitution, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
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You'll be hard pressed to find another hero so totally, awesomely Super, insists Raja Sen.
Tista Sengupta/Rediff.com speaks to aspiring plus size models who, for the first time, will walk at Lakme Fashion Week.
Jamida K is the first Indian Muslim woman to lead the Friday prayer.
The Richard Gere-Julia Roberts classic has aged remarkably well.
'Her greatest strength is not her acting or her dancing abilities, but that she has an incredible number of fans.'
Advait Chandan decodes Aamir Khan.
'We will never really lose him because in death, his spirit, trapped in a frail body, has been set free and will surround us like the air we breathe.'
'How can anyone ask me to stop what I have been doing since I was 6?'
'Could this be a random attack? Well, yes it could. It could be a whole range of scenarios... and we are considering all of them.'
If you are more than your rhetoric about a strong and united country, give us our due -- treat us as countrymen, says an ordinary Muslim in this open letter.
Opting for slightly lower scale in clarity, colour and carat weight can bring down the cost substantially.
Will the state forgo its lucrative excise collections in a bid to curb sales of liquor in the festive season, asks Mahesh Vijapurkar.
Music composer M Ghibran talks about his experience of working with Kamal Haasan on Uttama Villain.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in Tanzania where he held talks with Tanzanian President John Pombe Joseph Magufuli.
Most of the opposition parties blamed Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh-affiliates for the cow vigilantism.
A monsoon holiday can be cheaper because of discounts.
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