Kapil Dev's historic World Cup win wasn't the only highlight of 1983. Sukanya Verma looks back how the year treated Bollywood.
People paid their last respect to Raza who had wished to be buried in this tribal-dominated district where he once lived.
'An actor should learn to separate the actor and the character.' 'Me the actor and me the character should never intermingle.'
'I had a very painful shoulder surgery after a fall in the park.' 'I am nursing myself back to sturdiness slowly and steadily.'
In a reprieve for painter M F Husain, the Delhi High Court on Thursday quashed criminal proceedings against the artist for allegedly hurting public sentiments by painting obscene pictures of Hindu goddesses. It is a matter of having different perspectives and cannot be the basis for initiating criminal proceedings, Justice Kaul said.
'That secularism in India is at risk is alarming for someone like me. I'm born secular,' Anjolie Ela Menon, the well-known painter, tells Pavan Lall.
'Villagers are people without masks.' 'That is why I call them genuine human beings.' 'As an actor, I have been inspired by many such genuine characters.'
Thousands on Wednesday took to the streets in Kolkata to join a silent procession of intellectuals, film personalities, writers, painters and people from other walks of life to condemn the "recapture" of Nandigram by the Communist Party of India (M).
The place, a melting pot of people from the world of art and culture for decades, had downed its shutters on March 20 this year after the West Bengal government imposed a lockdown.
Venugopal talk about his life as a matte painter and compositor and his work on Christopher Nolan's Oscar-winning film.
Astad Deboo created a modern dance vocabulary that was uniquely Indian.
Dhoni revealed his plans after quitting cricket, fuelling fresh speculations about his retirement.
Natesan Kathiresan, a village painter, who loves the colour of sandalwood, but does not want his boys to pick up the paintbrush like him.
26-year-old Anjum Moudgil has also been offering counselling sessions to her friends, some of whom are shooters, at a personal level.
Looking at five heroines who made an impact this year.
'If you look at my career, I am among that rare species that has always worked in non-mainstream films. And people liked it. As for TRPs, popularity, and 100 crore club, I have never thought about it.' Amol Palekar gets ready for his television comeback.
A Delhi Court has issued a notice directing noted painter M F Hussain to appear before it in a case related to the alleged indecent depiction of Bharat Mata and Hindu gods. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate A K Kuhar directed the 92-year-old painter, who left the country as part of a self-imposed exile, to appear before it on March 29. The court also pulled up the police for its lax probe in a related matter.
In an attempt to create awareness about AIDS and HIV in rural areas where media cannot reach, the Public Affairs Office of the US Consulate General, Kolkata, would make use of scroll-painters to demonstrate HIV interventions.
In a gruesome double murder, artist Hema Upadhyay and her lawyer Harish Bhambani were found dead in Kandivali on Sunday.
Several migrants in Bengaluru were desperate to return home as they were out of job and money.
In the career spanning half a century, the actor featured in many critically-acclaimed and commercial blockbusters such as The Hunt for Red October, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Murder on the Orient Express and The Rock.
Satyajit Ray would have been a hundred years old on May 2. To mark the legendary film-maker's birth centenary, Rediff.com bring you a treasure trove of features from our archives.
Sowmya's Instagram account imagining Raja Rava Verma's muses as modern Indian women is winning the internet.
The four-and-a-half-year-old son of Bihari migrants based in Delhi died at the railway station in Muzaffarpur on arrival by a 'Shramik Special' train, while his father desperately hunted for some milk he believed will save his child.
'Other designers take empty suitcases and go shopping for the actors's clothes in New York.' 'To me, this is bankruptcy of imagination.'
We bring you a sneak-peak of the action unveiling on the streets of Mumbai
Against the backdrop of the Lok Sabha results, a much larger scale of desertion was anticipated from the TMC. 'It seems, people don't believe that the ship is sinking.'
Husain apologises for paintings, offers to withdraw auction
'They treat us like garbage. We are not humans for them'
Organizers of the second edition of the Indian Grand Prix are jazzing up the Buddh International Circuit in anticipation of a nail biting race that could decide the 2012-13 Formula One champion.
M F Husain booked for his paintings of nude gods
Shivan Narresh introduced this latest line of beachwear at Lakme Fashion Week.
The 'Artery Top 500 Works' list features the most expensive Indian works of art that have been sold so far. Their collective realised price? $367.9 million! As the demand and value of Indian artists grows internationally, we look at the record setters.
President Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday conferred the Padma awards on several eminent personalities including industrialist Adi Godrej, Olympic medal winners Yogeshwar Dutt and Vijay Kumar, actor Nana Patekar and designer Ritu Kumar.
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