AMAZING! How these men spent their quarantine

A heartwarming tale of how they used the time to beautify the schools where they are quarantined.Laxmi Negi/Redff.com reports. IMAGE: The returning migrants of Mijgaon village clean the premises......

Post floods, Kerala gears up to celebrate Onam

A security alert notwithstanding, it is Onam time again and Keralites are getting ready to celebrate the biggest festival of the state putting behind the havoc wrought by two consecutive floods.......

'Dharmashastras are the most vocal defenders of caste'

'Hindus are proud of what the Dharmashastras symbolise, but they don't want to do any work to preserve it!,' Sanskrit scholar Donald Davis tells Kanika Dutta.Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com......

A martyr's family remembers

'A man dies and it's over for him. But we're right here, it isn't over for us,' she says cryptically. She talks about the "poverty" in which she had to raise her sons and daughter, the......

Six sectors that will open up market for India-US

In its communication to the Office of the US Trade Representative imploring the agency not to put India on its trade hit list when the Special 301 Foreign Trade Barriers report is released next......

Hilton to raise India hotel count to 50

The Hilton family of hotels will have 50 hotels in India by 2015. Twenty of these hotels are in various stages of development, with three (in Delhi, Chennai and Bangalore) slated to open in 2009, a......

Sari nights and henna parties

On a recent spring afternoon the sound of hammers and saws drifted from my neighbour's house. This was not another example of the feverish construction that is changing the landscape of Delhi.......

'It was terrifying!'

'What if your mode of transport and your place blows up?' Photograph: Kind courtesy Tina Desai/Instagram The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel actress Tina Desai -- she was then known as Tena......

'Delhi Crime won top Emmy, but people know me from Mirzapur'

'The chowkidar and the paanwala have seen Mirzapur.''They may have missed Delhi Crime, but they have seen Mirzapur'.'Sometimes I feel I have done so much work, why do people know me only by this......

'I could only imagine Dev as David Copperfield'

'Dev for me embodied all that kind of charm, optimism, energy, vulnerability, awkwardness and yet strength.''He's in every scene for two hours.''He has to play drama, melodrama, romance, pathos,......

'Judi Dench is obsessed with India'

'He cooked chicken curry and so because of him, curries entered the British royal kitchens.''Eventually, he became a political advisor to the queen.''This guy was disrupting the royal household. It......