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......
Thirty members of an organisation headed by Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed comprising doctors and paramedical staff on Tuesday applied for Indian visas to treat the injured in Kashmir. The......
Four states and one Union Territory -- West Bengal, Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry -- voted on one of the busiest days in the ongoing assembly elections on Tuesday. While for West......
Anthony Thasan was a child soldier with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in the 1980s. Disillusioned with the organisation as it quietly moved away from its core ideologies, he escaped from Sri......
This what Homer Simpson means when he says: ‘Mmm. Chocolate!’ The Salon Du Chocolat kicked off in France on October 28, on the country’s National Chocolate Day. The event is an......
A financial scheme based on a virtual currency and propagated by Russian businessman and financier Sergey Mavrodi seems to be gaining ground across rural India. “It is not a business, not an......
How did Bollywood spend Sunday? Let's find out. Photograph: Kind courtesy Ananya Panday/Instagram Ananya Panday makes the most of Sunday as she binges on pizza and then... Photograph:......
It's the holiday season and Bollywood's got the memo! Photograph: Kind courtesy Mrunal Thakur/Instagram Mrunal Thakur vacations at Sawai Madhopur in Rajasthan... Photograph: Kind......
Big stars, big budgets, breezy soundtrack and the promise of a good time is director Siddharth Anand's specialty. High on foreign locales and fancy styling, his entertainers exude the A to Z of......
He is not seeing what perhaps everyone else around him is seeing: An over-commercialised player who is really an under-performing batsman, observes Sandeep Goyal. IMAGE: Virat Kohli looks on......