'From the beginning (I have told her) "Whatever it may be -- you are losing or winning -- on the ground you're not going to cry!" She never cried.' '"I don't want you to project that you are a loser. You are a winner".' Vaihayasi Pande Daniel/Rediff.com speaks to Leela Raj about her famous daughter, now in the West Indies for the women's T20 World Cup.
'The only positive I see are the youth of India who were earlier just after money. The young now want to do something for society.'
The change needed to prevent violence against women in India -- and across the world -- must be systemic, cultural change, not reciprocal violence to individual acts of barbarism, says Mallika Dutt.
...And Jennifer Aniston off it, in Sukanya Verma's super filmi week!
Sukanya Verma lists the movies she grabbed at MAMI this year.
What if we these popular American television series were made in India?
He was the army commander who planned Operation Bluestar. As army chief he planned Operation Brasstacks which rattled the Pakistan army. General K Sundarji was brilliant, ambitious and controversial, remembers Rahul Bedi.
The first woman chief justice of a state in India Leila Seth talks about her career and how she went on to fight male bias and discrimination.
'To selectively look at the operation of certain laws -- in a manner that ignores the realities of caste and gender injustice in India -- and conclude that they are being particularly misused, is plain wrong,' says Aakar Patel.
'Saaho is one of the biggest films I have worked in.' 'Recently, we shot one of the biggest action sequences you will see in Indian cinema.'
The central government has drafted a law to restrict wombs for hire, and there is much to be said on all sides.
They say that cinema is a reflection of society. If that is true, what kind of society are we living in, asks Paloma Sharma.
The top posts on social media from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
So many films have been made with Muslim characters. But how many have actually got them right?
Donald Trump, Hardik Patel, Kangana Ranuat... The year 2017 wouldn't have been the same if it weren't for these personalities and many more. As we herald in 2018, here's a look at the faces and stories which left an indelible mark on us.
Rediff.com's Love Guru has answers to all your relationship problems.
Dr Lakshmi Vijayakumar examines why India's southern states register more suicides than the northern states. Shobha Warrier reports
Ahmedabad's cultural scene would not have gone beyond the garba, but for Mrinalini Sarabhai's pioneering efforts.
The kings of the ruling family of India's heartland -- father Mulayam Singh Yadav, the Samajwadi party supremo, and son Akhilesh Yadav, the UP chief minister -- are at war. And as on any chessboard, the queens have emerged as the power centres. Meet Dimple Yadav and Aparna Yadav.
'Oddly enough, everything Raazi cannot explain or put a finger on, it glosses over in the name of patriotism or watan-love; glorifying thereby the very sentiment it had set out to mock.' 'This is the unique tragedy of the film: it becomes less of a counterpoint to pseudo-patriotism and more of a companion piece,' says Sreehari Nair.
As India's turns 70, a 70 year old -- one of India's finest poets -- decodes his relationship with her.
Successful parents are increasingly faced with continuing to support children in their 20s or 30s.
We celebrate Independence Day with this special feature, published on Rediff.com in January 2013.
Toilet: Ek Prem Katha has something pertinent to say but isn't clever enough to venture beyond screaming platitudes, notes Sukanya Verma.
Here is a closer look at politicos who have emerged victorious in the electoral contest of five state assemblies.
Historian Stanley Wolpert, author of several books on India, passed into the ages recently. We remember Professor Wolpert with Rajeev Srinivasan's March 1997 interview published on the occasion of his controversial book on Jawaharlal Nehru.
Here's all you need to know about the man who could be India's next president.
Here's a look at some of the hashtags that trended during the first year of the Modi regime.
Procuring ration card, passport, voter ID cards and documents to establish their Indian citizenship are easy and sleeper cells help illegal immigrants in getting them.
Thenmozhi Soundararajan works to break the shackles of caste for Dalits.
Pankaja Munde, who is the MLA from Parli, led the campaign for Gopinath Munde during the Lok Sabha elections against the single-minded, 'undo the Mundes' campaign by the Pawars and the Nationalist Congress Party. She is not set to take over his mantle, says Mahesh Vijapurkar.
Purvi Patel is the first woman in America to be sentenced to prison for foeticide. Chaya Babu/Rediff.com reports on the verdict and the ripples of shock and fear it set off.
The Michelin Star chef and host of MasterChef India, who penned his first work of fiction, shares stories from his life.
Remadevi Thottathil, Indian Navy's first ever lady Air Traffic Controller takes us through her inspiring career journey.
We asked readers if they were ever discriminated against because of their dark skin. Here are their responses.
The 91-year-old went beyond her role as a writer to help tribals in organising themselves in groups so that they could take up development activities in their own areas.
The president-elect has vast public, social, and political experience which will help him better to discharge his duty as the First Citizen of India.
The NDA candidate tells the Election Commission that the Maoists plan to kidnap him.
Team Menstrupedia is inspiring young girls to break taboos and speak about their problems related to menstruation and instilling confidence in them.
Sukanya Verma lists the lessons Bollywood taught us this year.
