One thing I learnt early enough in South Block was that as head of a territorial division, the success of a policy initiative almost always would lie in slipping it in innocuously when the superiors were overworked. Even if the idea were heretical, the chances of it finding habitation depended on the timing. That was how the saga of India’s Read More

Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi met President Barack Obama at the White House on Wednesday on her first visit to the United States since her party won a sweeping victory in last year’s election, capping a decades-long journey from political prisoner to national leader. With Suu Kyi no longer an opposition figure, the United States is weighing a further easing Read More

Take a look. IMAGE: Rediff.com‘s Uttam Ghosh spotted this elaborate pookalam at Panvel railway station, Navi Mumbai. The pookalam is 55 to 60 feet in diameter informs Radhakrishnan, vice president of Keraliya Culture Society (established in 2007 in Raigad) and they have been doing this every year at the railway station. It took 1,500 kg of flowers to make the decoration Read More

Jamai Raja fame actress Sargun Mehta celebrated her birthday on September 8, when hubby Ravi Dubey threw a lavish party with the who’s who of the television industry in attendance. A look at the celebs who turned up to wish the birthday gal. Ravi Dubey arrives with his beautiful wife Sargun Mehta for the party. Karan Patel and his wife Ankita Read More

Chiyaan Vikram is back with a science fiction thriller directed by Anand Shankar of Arima Nambi fame. The actor plays both the protagonist as well as the antagonist in the film. The trailer had a good buzz but the film does not live up to the high expectations. The gorgeous Nayanthara and Nithya Menen play the female leads, supported by Thambi Read More

After doing movies in Tamil and Telugu, Regina Cassandra is now set to make her presence felt in Bollywood. The actress will make her debut with Anees Bazmee’s directorial venture Aankhen 2, co-starring Amitabh Bachchan, Anil Kapoor, Arjun Rampal and Arshad Warsi. In this exclusive interview with Rediff.comcontributor Radhika Rajamani, Regina talks about Aankhen 2, Amitabh Bachchan and her new Telugu Read More

Riteish Deshmukh visited the Siddhivinayak Temple in Mumbai. He attended the maha aarti there dressed in an all white attire and paired it with a matching gandhi topi. He will soon be seen in the film Banjo and very recently, he released a song from the film called, Bappa. He also featured in a music video, Thank God Bappa which points out Read More

One of South cinema’s most beautiful actresses, Shriya Saran has tasted success in India and abroad. We celebrate her glamorous life on her birthday on September 11, with pictures from her life. IMAGE: Shriya Saran at Memu Saitham Stars Cricket Curtain Raiser’s dance rehearsal Born and brought up in Haridwar, Shriya aspired to be a dancer. But she took up acting Read More

Jayaraman (Mohanlal) is the good-hearted eldest son in a financially struggling Tharavadifamily. He has worked hard for the well being of his younger siblings. Now, he has the responsibility of getting his younger sister married off, and he needs money for that. The fact that he is blind and uses a white stick to move around is just incidental. He Read More

Shubhashish Bhutiani, 25, recently took his first feature film Mukti Bhawan (Hotel Salvation) to Venice to be screened as a part of the Biennale College Cinema programme. After the screening, the audience gave Bhutiani and his team a 10-minute standing ovation. The UNESCO jury awarded the film the XXIIIrd prix ‘Enrico Fulchignoni’. Butiani is no stranger to fame in Venice. Read More