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Hey Mr Owaisi, these are Muslims too!

One teenager died in police firing last May.Another teenager is paralysed waist down.Both families have been ignored by the political establishment, including the AIMIM.Jyoti Punwani reports from......

One of Mother India's finest servants

Naresh Chandra was most certainly among the greatest patriots two generations of Indian strategists have seen, through the tenure of nine PMs, says Shekhar Gupta. The description we use most......

'I'll keep trying to be an actor till I succeed. I will not go back'

In an Independence Day Special series, Rediff.com celebrates India through the lives of her people. Today: Lalit Satyarthi, an aspiring actor, who left his home in Agra to follow his lifelong dream......

Mumbai gets its aquarium back, but don't expect a world-class one

Fish-lover Rajesh Karkera revisits Taraporevala Aquarium V2.0 after decades and comes back with mixed feelings. It has a touch pool, an oceanarium, but is this all what that the city was promised?......

The parachute who came to cover the biggest election in history

Two whole weeks after he landed on his feet in unfamiliar territory, Patrick Ward records what it is to be a parachute journalist in the chaos called India. Illustration: Uttam......

India's growing coffee culture

Indian coffee shops market over the next four-five years will grow between 6 and 18 per cent CAGR, all due to the growing coffee culture among the youth, increasing urbanisation, rising disposable......

Super-rich young Indians have a new success mantra!

Nikita Puri and Dhruv Munjal explain why new-age businessmen are turning to exclusive, uber-rich clubs.Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com A speaker is addressing some 50 people. The audience,......

Facebook facelift faces tough fight

Last week, 29-year-old K Dasaratha Rao, a website developer and software consultant from Bangalore, saw several new features being added to the social networking site Facebook (FB)."Honestly, I......

Ipad for a menu card? New cafe ushers in edgy tech

In the age of smartphones and touch screen console TVs and where experimentation is the name of the game, new hangout zones are utilising latest jazzy technologies like ipads to reach out to the......

Indian IT campuses turn into fun zones

When Pushpalee Lobo joined Infosys Bangalore in 2004, she had zero expectations about her office space. Weren't Indian offices ill-lit, ill-ventilated, dreary spaces in the main? Which is why the......

When Quentin Tarantino got it so wrong

Quentin Tarantino, declares Sreehari Nair, will be remembered as someone who made just two great movies, and who then brought misery upon himself. IMAGE: Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio in Once......

Goons are normal too!

I am no Arshad Warsi fan. I have seen only one of his films, Betaabi, and that wasbecause it was aired on television a couple of times. I disliked him.I did not expect anything from him in......

Blasted in Belo Horizonte

With a well-oiled midfield and strikers of the calibre of Thomas Muller and Miroslav Klose, the Germans will start the title match against Argentina as favourites, says Mauktik Kulkarni. Lush......

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