Ajit Balakrishnan offers a thinking person’s guide. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com Last week, I was sitting in the rear seat of my car, deeply immersed in my Kindle, reading......
Time unkindly has a sole endeavour: To drag the person, whose death you are mourning, further and further away from your presence, to some far edge of your falsely anesthetised mind.So your......
From the tallest dog to the high-jumping Llama, a bearded female to the most tattooed senior citizen... the 2017 edition of the Guinness World Records reveals a selection of the most jaw-dropping......
Dhruv Shirpurkar's parents never let go of their faith in God while standing with him in his battle against a rare disorder that left him 85 per cent disabled and bound to a wheelchair.Rediff.com's......
Derek Lomas came to India as an intern, and fell in love. His Valentine to the country, Krishnakumar P finds, is high tech adapted to the low-end needs of the unprivileged. At first sight, the......
It has get-up-and-go and is possessed of immense agility, observes Pavan Lall. IMAGE: BMW 5 Series 530 M Sport. Photographs: Kind courtesy, BMW India Some time during college, when I was in......
As Work from Home, Study from Home and Play from Home became the norm, people bought more PCs, smartphones, high-end Wi-Fi equipment and routers, printers, home theatre systems, and so on. In the......
Rajesh Karkera/Rediff.com got the chance to get behind the wheel of the KIA Seltos in rain-splattered Goa, and can't get over the experience. Packed with segment-first features and boasting of......
Today pay-later services are available for practically anything under the sun, says Priyadarshini Maji.And these include small purchases like clothes, gadgets, movie tickets, even......
The watchdogs of the economy have not been barking and it is high time we noticed it, says Shreekant Sambrani. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com Even the woman on the street unlearned in......
Even those with no knowledge of the inner workings of the media and police would find Scoop absorbing as a human drama and the story of the resilience of a woman, her family and true friends,......
What is the magic in the make-up of 007 that keeps us coming back again and again?asks Sandeep Goyal. IMAGE: Daniel Craig as James Bond in No Time to Die, the latest 007 movies. Even the most......
Ok Computer could have been our answer to every futuristic film in Hollywood, but it ends up becoming just an aspiration gone awry, sighs Moumita Bhattacharjee. It's high time India has a......
Despite four screenplay writers' and Salman Khan's best efforts, Kick fails to impress, says Sukanya Verma. Never heard a filmmaker say 'Anyone can direct' in the vein of Chef Gusteau's......
Preeti Arora reviews Do Dooni Char.The common man as the protagonist. His intrinsic moral values. His ability to remain upright even at the risk of facing dire consequences. But then ideals aren't......