Mahatma Carter

Carter was in politics, but not a politician, certainly not a transactional politician. Carter bears not a small resemblance to another leader of another large country, who was also in politics but......

The Soldier Who Was A Chinese PoW For 7 Months

'I was exhausted, hungry, unshaven and despondent.''My mouth was full of sores due to dehydration.''My clothes were in tatters due to walking through bushes and sliding down thorny slopes,'......

Mourning for George H W Bush

Draped in a United States flag, a casket carrying the body of former president George H W Bush on Monday was flown to Washington from Houston for the final time in Air Force One aircraft, which has......

George H W Bush to lie in state in US Capitol till Wednesday

George H W Bush, the 41st United States President who died in Houston on Friday at the age of 94, is to be honoured with a state funeral at National Cathedral in Washington on Wednesday,......

India's friend from Harvard

It was almost exactly three years ago that I had the privilege to meet up with the venerable Professor. I was working at the President John F Kennedy Library on a fellowship grant. My area of......

Al Gore's amazing $100 million makeover!

Al Gore is a funny guy. And, for his $175,000 speaking fee, he tells this story: after leaving the White House and heading back to Tennessee sans motorcade -- "in a rented Ford Taurus," he sniffs......

NRI entrepreneur flays NYT over 'smear campaign'

Vinod 'Vin' Gupta, 60, the multi-millionaire chairman and CEO of infoUSA and focus of a major article in the New York Times in the Washington Post on May 26 regarding a lawsuit that brandshis using......

2007: The year that was at the movies

With 2008 just around the corner, we decided to get together an interesting bunch of people to chat about cinema in the year gone by.Director Suparn Verma and resident film critic Raja Sen got......

'Circuit is in love with Munna'

Director Rajkumar Hirani is on top of the world.His Lage Raho Munna Bhai feels like the film of the year so far, the world going unanimously ga-ga over the Sanjay Dutt-Arshad Warsi starrer.Rediff......