Indrani laughed loudly. She looked like the cat that got the cream, smiling gaily.Vaihayasi Pande Daniel reports from the Sheena Bora murder trial. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com ......
From Sri Lanka's most popular political family to its most despised -- going by the voices on the streets calling for the Rajapaksas' ouster what went wrong for the powerful clan? Veteran Sri Lanka......
'The response to savagery and mass injustice is never a persistent howl.''There will be, among the victims, those who choose to forget the scars, those who go on living, those who challenge the......
Sensitive cases like the validity of the scrapping of Article 370 of the Constitution, the Citizenship Act, and states challenging perceived assault on federalism were on the back burner.An......
Gangster Vikas Dubey was arrested in Madhya Pradesh's Ujjain on Thursday after a six-day manhunt following the Kanpur ambush in which eight policemen were gunned down, officials said. IMAGE:......
We might not have been seeking out baubles, says Kishore Singh, but there's nothing Nirav Modi liked more than surprising you with them. Photograph: Kind courtesy Nirav Modi/Facebook Now that every......
The ban on liquor advertising is an example of policy hypocrisy at play, says Kanika Datta. Image: The betting ban is one element of this proclivity, but so are the restrictions on cigarette and......
A Roman Catholic prelate has developed a smart-phone application that will help let his parishioners know when and where he is available to listen to their sins. Rev. Richard Heilman's My Confessor......
Sebi appears to be dead serious about putting speedily into place a litigation-free alternative of achieving justice and discipline. A few weeks back it introduced a scheme whereby persons accused......
Even as the power plant originally put up by an Enron subsidiary on the west coast of Maharashtra restarted producing power under a different management, the principal guilty men of Enron - the one......
Aseem Chhabra watched some great films and some huge disappointments in 2021. IMAGE: Aditya Rao Hydari and Konkona Sensharma in Ajeeb Daastaans. Year two of the pandemic was a challenge in so many......
'Of all artists who openly support the current political dispensation, she is far and away the finest,' argues Sreehari Nair.'With the exception of perhaps Tabu, no Indian actress has done more to......
The world according to Neeraj Pandey. Observed by Sreehari Nair. IMAGE: Kay Kay Menon as Himmat Singh. All Photographs: Kind courtesy Hotstar.com/ In Special Ops, Kay Kay Menon plays Himmat......
Mrinal Sen, one of India's greatest film directors, passed into the ages on December 30.In this excerpt from a conversation with Samik Bandopadhyay, Mrinalda discusses three legendary actors he has......
'Mulk gets a lot of things right, including its vision of the country as a place where underneath the punctilious, forced-secular surface there are volatilities waiting to go off,' says Sreehari......
Lance Armstrong finally confessed his doping sins to talk show host Oprah Winfrey on Thursday but the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) has now challenged the disgraced cyclist to do the......
Golfer Tiger Woods, engulfed in speculation over his private life after a car accident in the middle of the night, apologized on Wednesday for "transgressions" in a statement that apparently......
Sumit Bhatia:I firmly believe that Saurav and Wright have been instrumental in "making" this Indian team such that people now expect it to win all the time it goes out to play rather than making......