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The Global Ambassador Of Indian Music

He was a formidable musician but seemed utterly human, a Peter Pan who wore his genius with deceptive lightness. Sandip Roy remembers Ustad Zakir Hussain. IMAGE: Ustad Zakir Hussain at one of his......

Indian-American OpenAI whistleblower found dead in US

A 26-year-old Indian-origin former employee of the artificial intelligence giant OpenAI has died by suicide in San Francisco, authorities said. IMAGE: OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji.......

'Supreme Court Should Remove Biren Singh'

'There are 7,000 guns which are in the hands of the armed militia of the Kuki and Meitei communities.' IMAGE: The bodies of Kuki militants, who were killed in an encounter with the Central Reserve......

Kamala Harris: 'Female Obama' who didn't make it to White House

Kamala's role as vice president was more than just symbolic. Unlike her predecessors, she wielded considerable power during Biden's presidency. IMAGE: Democratic presidential nominee and US Vice......

The Elevance of Kamala Harris

Kamala has finessed bubblegum conversation about whether she is Black or Indian. Her Irrelevancing-approach, an Irrelevance-code if you will, is Elevated and Elegant -- this is the Elevance of......

How a Kanpur-born Indian-origin CEO is a chip off the old block

In the technology (tech) world, especially storage, Sanjay Mehrotra is a well-known name. Co-founder of SanDisk, a flash memory storage company in 1988, it was eventually acquired by Western......

India's Quest For A Role In The Future Of Semiconductors

'Whoever owns the best chip industry will be the Saudi Arabia of the era of data,' predicts Rajeev Srinivasan. IMAGE: Union Electronics and Information Technology Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw......

The E-Comm Debate In India

Ajit Balakrishnan offers a thinking man’s guide to the state of e-comm in a nation of shopkeepers. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com   News reports about consumer e-commerce are......

3 Americans win Economics Nobel 2021

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2021 with one half to David Card “for his empirical......

Edtech start-up Eruditus gets funding from Zuckerberg duo

Eruditus runs on a partnership model with top global universities such as MIT, Columbia, Harvard, Cambridge, INSEAD, Wharton, and UC Berkeley, offering courses in coding, data science, fintech,......

India, Merchant-Ivory and the Oscars

Making her film debut with The Householder, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala wrote more screenplays than novels, winning two Oscars -- for A Room with a View and Howards End.She kept her distance from the film......

Look what's trending on TV!

These are the television shows that will crackle and pop a lot longer than anything you'll get your paws on.  Billions This hard-as-nails stock market drama is about a US attorney (Paul......

How Monsoon Wedding became a musical

Going behind the scenes with director Mira Nair.Monali Sarkar reports. Monsoon Wedding: The film that charmed critics from Toronto to Venice IMAGE: In May 2017, 16 years after its......

'Acting courses can't teach you how to act'

Who knew jumping around in a shop as a kid could lead to a career in acting? Barkha Singh certainly didn't. Today, with more than 500 ads , four serials (Bhagyalakshmi, Love By Chance, Fanaah and......

Is India ready for a Poker Sports League?

Come May, the Deltin Royale, which boasts of the country's largest poker room, will play host to India's first Poker Sports League, reports Veenu Sandhu. IMAGE: Season 1 final of the Poker Sports......

Muhammad Ali's life celebrated by thousands at prayer service

IMAGE: Boxing gloves with well wishes are left at a makeshift memorial for late boxing champion Muhammad Ali in Louisville. Photograph: Lucas Jackson/Reuters. A Muslim funeral for Muhammad Ali on......

Muhammad Ali's Muslim funeral service to draw thousands

‘To be properly prepared for burial, prayed over and then buried is a right owed to every single Muslim’ IMAGE: Momentos, including a pair of boxing gloves, lie at a makeshift......

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