'He's like Buddha'

'He has dealt with such tremendous odds that he understands things at a level that not many people do,' Urmimala Abhilash tells Rediff.com's Archana Masih about her husband, Commander Abhilash......

British author Kazuo Ishiguro wins Literature Nobel

Japan-born British author Kazuo Ishiguro on Thursday won the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature. 'The 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to the English author Kazuo Ishiguro who, in novels of......

How diplomacy and poetry are linked

It is widely accepted that the greatest literature is born when cultures, civilizations or worldviews come together. This often happens in case of diplomat-poets who often find themselves in exotic......

Rushdie is a 'substandard' writer: Katju

Salman Rushdie is a "poor" and "sub-standard writer" who would have remained largely unknown but for his controversial book The Satanic Verses, according to Markandey Katju, till recently a judge......

10 MUST WATCH Movies, coming up!

Aseem Chhabra's recommendations for the Mumbai film festival. Writer Suketu Mehta loves to narrate a joke Shah Rukh Khan shared with him about the late filmmaker Mani Kaul. During the making of......

Will these movies win an Oscar?

Here's looking at some brilliant movies. The Toronto International Film Festival was very good for American movies, especially the indie kind. The Oscar competition is going to be strong and......

The Top 5 Films of Anjan Das

The National Award-winning director gave us some fine films before he succumbed to liver cancer on June 2. National Award-winning director Anjan Das began his film career in the mid-1970s with two......