New low for Rediff

This is the leading news story right now: Astrological doomsday predictions on state of affairs.

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Amrita Rao on budget

Rediff has kindly ended my torment and shared Ms. Rao's thoughts on the budget.

Why do I still have the sneaking suspicion that these thoughts are not really hers? Even after seeing the proof of her concerns for the middle class, the rising costs of TV and that she can mention the amount of money alloted to healthcare casually.

Link:http://business.rediff.com/slide-show/2010/feb/27/slide-show-1-budget-2010-perfin-what-rajkumar-hirani-thinks-of-the-budget.htm#contentTop

Rediff headlines right now

Kapil Thakur Unleashed

For those who don’t know, Rediff’s star spotting section is the nemesis of celebrityhood. Of the many flashes that accompany the mega-hyped celebrities, a snap sent to Rediff can rip apart the doe-caught-in-the-flashlight star, especially in the first few hours of moderated comments. Sample these “moderated” comments on the Kapoor clan sisters above.

Now it seems, rediff does not seem to need other celebrities, since it’s created a monster of its own. Kapil Thakur. In the last one month, Kapil has hogged the Spotted space and, for the first time, relieved the poor stars of the heat of anonymous unmoderated comments as there is only one question in every forum where his snap appears: Who the F*** is KAPIL?

All comments from Rediff.

Sources:

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http://movies.rediff.com/report/2009/dec/31/spotted-karisma-kapoor.htm

http://movies.rediff.com/report/2010/jan/27/spotted-kareena-kapoor.htm

http://movies.rediff.com/report/2009/dec/24/spotted-abhishek-bachchan.htm

http://movies.rediff.com/report/2009/dec/30/spotted-john-abraham.htm

http://cricket.rediff.com/report/2010/jan/04/spotted-dhoni.htm

http://movies.rediff.com/report/2010/jan/07/spotted-kangna-ranaut.htm

http://cricket.rediff.com/report/2010/jan/20/spotted-yuvraj.htm

I didn't want to write this

Rediff is doing to Internet news what TOI did to the paper press a decade ago.

That is why I check it out every hour for updates.

Sample the headline of this new novelist off the block article titled "I didn't think I would become a Rushdie". Naturally, if I came over and told you "I never thought I would see two seven-feet tall guys with amputated arms kissing each other", you would assume that I just had. Far from it. It's more like - in my case at least - 'I never thought I would have girls screaming and clawing over me'.

I assumed that the guy is the next Rushdie being hailed by the press. Nothing like it. The guy just mentions that, for good reason, he knew he would never be Salman Rushdie. He might as well have mentioned Marilyn Monroe - because, from what his TobyYoungish book sounds like, his chances of ever becoming her are definitely brighter.

My only disappointment is that Rediff could have spiced it up a little more.

Something like 'I never thought I would be raped by Rushdie while Arvind Adiga pinned my arms and Anita and Kiran Desai held one leg each.'

or

'I never thought Rushdie would get obsessed over my fat nipples.'