When Sudha, Narayana Murthy Broke Up

After agonizing over this for weeks, he made a decision.When they met after work one evening, he startled her by blurting out, 'I think we should break up.' A moving excerpt from Chitra Banerjee......

Will Name Change Erase Faceook's Toxic Reality?

Adversarial Harmful Networks -- India Case Study, cited in Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen's SEC complaints, revealed, among other things, that Facebook was a preferred platform for......

What is Adar Poonawalla up to?

What the UK is getting out of the Serum Institute is what India is losing.And the responsibility of the Indian State ought to have been to dictate where Serum Institute's vaccine doses should go,......

Are we surrendering our minds?

Are we submerging our individual abilities, memories and consciousness to a larger anonymous Cloud over which we have no control, wonders B S Prakash.Illustration: Uttam GhoshIf you are reading......

From social media influencers to #metoo, 2018 was a 'brand' new year

What sets 2018 apart from previous years is the magnitude of the shocks that hit our brand ecosystem, says Bharat Bambawale. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com We've had an exceptionally busy......

Why banks and FIs are not using the brahmastra?

The SARRAEST Act 2002, enables 75 percent or more of secured creditors to recover dues in a systematic way, but they hardly use this tool. The Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets......

Why widespread hunger persists in India

No large nation has done less to feed its millions of poor than India has in the past decade or two since the beneficial effects of the Green Revolution wore off, says Rahul Jacob. Speaking......

When corporations capture the state

The danger of a corporate capture of government isn't imaginary, and corporations represent narrow profit-seeking interests of businessmen whose forte is not Constitutional values, says Praful......

Profile: Dr Vijay Mallya

Dr Vijay Mallya -- Chairman and Managing Director, Force India Formula One Team The UB Group is one of India's largest conglomerates with annual sales of over US$ 4 billion and a market......