This isn't just a home for the elderly. It's a place where life stories, generations, and cultures weave themselves into something quietly extraordinary, discovers Nitin Sathe. Illustrations:......
A year after the RG Kar rape-murder Swarupa Dutt looks at the city where it happened, Kolkata -- a study in dichotomy, at once the self-proclaimed cultural capital of India as also a petri dish for......
What are the reasons why a girl's education falls by the wayside? IMAGE: Safeena Husain, founder NGO, Educate Girls. Photograph: Rajesh Karkera for Rediff.com Your mission in life is chosen. It's......
Can a culture survive as a way of life, even as the language and writing at its core, alter with time? asks Shyam G Menon. Illustrations: Dominic Xavier/Rediff First week of January. My first rail......
14 years after losing her family in the tsunami, Meghana Rajsekhar finally tasted her mother's rasam when her childhood cook invited her for a meal.'All my life I had looked for it.''Life came full......
'Once when he was on a flight, the plane hit an air-pocket.''The turbulence outside caused it to see-saw violently which caused a lot of panic inside. While his co-passengers were crying and......
Ever since Sonam Kapoor made her Bollywood debut in 2007, she's achieved a fair amount of success and worked with the cream of film-makers. But it's her dazzling fashion and gorgeously put-together......
What makes the film scary is the way it plays with your fears and your anxieties, says Prasanna D Zore. Finally, horror films being made in India are actually spooky and scary. The House Next......
'For some inexplicable reason I began to fancy that Dilip Kumar and I were siblings.' IMAGE: Dharmendra and Dilip Kumar. Photograph: Kind courtesy Dharmendra/Instagram Much before he won the......
Diane Keaton's wit and honesty taught us that ageing and uncertainty aren't weaknesses, they are part of what makes us human and graceful, observes Sreehari Nair. IMAGE: Diane Keaton shows her......