Devdutt Pattanaik, who has simplified the ancient Indian scriptures for millions of readers, highlights what our scriptures have to say about homosexuals and transgenders.
'To get the most important film of Priyanka's career, which would perhaps take her another 10-15 years, she refused to do it to get married to him. I mean it's amazing!'
'I'll remember you as the face of joy for ever.' Sukanya Verma remembers the iconic Sridevi.
Sometimes, the movies likes to use the rains in its title!
Here's a look at top 10 tweets from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
The Kochi-Muziris Biennale has put Kerala on the art tourism circuit, says Kishore Singh.
'Wasn't there a single person below 30 in the whole production team? I wondered aloud at different points in the narrative,' notes Sreehari Nair.
Sukanya Verma picks her favourite Deepika Padukone scenes.
Sukanya Verma's pick of this year's 10 most unpleasant is a mix of ghastly gone gaga, bilge that makes one reconsider their profession and faith-shattering misfires from the masters
Mr T V R Shenoy, who contributed columns to Rediff.com from its birth, passed into the ages on Tuesday evening. As we grieve and mourning his passing, Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar bids adieu to an unusual human being, a sage for our times.
It seems to be a Tom Hanks and Cate Blanchett show all the way!
At the age of 39, Centrist Emmanuel Macron will become France's youngest leader since Napoleon.
Because, let's face it, we can never have enough of her on the silver screen!
The top posts on social media from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
The film is a slow-paced family drama with all the elements of a commercial entertainer.
Christopher Nolan's next, Gulzar's gussa, Shyam Benegal's Shivaji and RD's Lawrence of Arabia connection, catch all this and more in Sukanya Verma's super filmi week.
There is a group of La La Land haters -- especially jazz aficionados who feel the film gives too much importance to a white man who sets out to save the musical genre associated with the African American community, points out Aseem Chhabra.
'This is a movie, which if you allow it to, will wash itself all over you, so that you emerge from it a little drenched but wide awake,' says Sreehari Nair.
Aseem Chhabra looks at the year's best Non-Hindi Indian movies.
In a career spanning nearly three decades, Floyd Cardoz has always drawn on food memories to create a new culinary language.
Raees has a very bold Shah Rukh Khan who's stepped out of his comfort zone of crinkly eyes and dimpled cheek, says Saisuresh Sivaswamy.
The PMO should also present an annual report, on the state of politics and society
Meheka Mirpuri is using fashion to help cancer patients.
As much as its protagonists look for perfect words to articulate their findings on love, friendship, a space in between and beyond, Ae Dil Hai Mushkil simply reiterates the nature of its unpredictability through a twist Sukanya Verma did not foresee or like.
Himanshu Sehgal is traveling across India, armed with a plate and a camera.
The very filmi Valentine's Day Special!
Kashmir was indeed in need of a messiah that summer; 70 per cent of its population aged below 31 were up in arms against the Indian State. Every nook and corner of the land brought forth stories of youngsters with crushed bodies and an unfaltering spirit.
Pooja Bhatt's irrepressible cuteness, Rekha's amusing cartoon, Asha Bhosle's super songstress power, Akshay Kumar's sparkling white sneakers and shaved chest find a mention in Sukanya Verma's weekly column.
Phata Poster Nikhla Hero music is very entertaining.
Fading Gigolo is evidence that a movie doesn't have to mumble to be modest.
Exaggerated sleeves, bold colours and individualistic styles -- Avantika Bhuyan tells you what will be in vogue in 2017.
The 87th Annual Academy Awards have been announced. Here's a quick glance at the winners.
We celebrate Farah Khan's 50th birthday by re-visiting some of her best choreography.
Their pics will send you into a food coma!
'What is holding this government to ransom is the Parivar. It is this group's thought process, ideals and philosophies that course through the veins of India's elected government. And it is this that is holding the government, and through it the country, to ransom.'
The recent controversy regarding the national anthem, provoked by Rajasthan's Governor Kalyan Singh, has got many revisiting the lyrics of Rabindranath Tagore's most famous composition.
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