Namaste is the new Hello!

The bear hug in which the prime minister loves to smother Western VIPs might strike as theatrical, boastful and, above all, unhygienic, in these stricken times, observes Sunanda K Datta-Ray.......

Did India export The Kiss to the West?

Perhaps Justice S Muralidhar of the Delhi High Court had Valentine's Day in mind when, earlier this week, he threw out a criminal complaint of obscenity by the police against a young couple who......

Probe Maharashtra circus fire: Russia

Russia has asked the Maharashtra government to thoroughly investigate the blaze at a Russian circus in Andheri on Monday, in which 21 animals were charred to death.The Russian diplomatic mission in......

How to escape the shackles at work

But wait," you may be saying, "I'm not starting with a clean sheet of paper - and I'm not the CEO. My company's been around for a while and ahs an installed base of white-bread management......

Want to beat the Mumbai heat? Go to Lonavala

Want to give the oppressive summer heat the skip? Want to holiday in the hills? Want to go somewhere nice and peaceful? How will you choose the right travel destination? How can you make your......

Airbus flying high on Indian skies

Most Indian visitors to the Airbus headquarters at Toulouse in France are pleasantly surprised when Kiran Rao, executive vice-president (marketing and contracts, customer affairs), Airbus, serves......

6 BIG tips from the 'reluctant entrepreneur'

Uh oh, they're staring at me again. What? Never seen a blond haired, pony tailed b loke tapping away on his Apple Powerbook? Okay, so this isn't Silicon Valley, but hey, it won't be long before the......

Raja Sen reviews Dhoom 3: It's dumber than the first two!

Dhoom 3 is a children’s film made for children who’ve never seen a film, writes Raja Sen. Twenty minutes into Dhoom 3, reeling from the assault of cinema so amateurish it’s hard......

Review: Lootera is an absolute masterpiece

Lootera is a gorgeous, gorgeous film, one that uses its period setting affectionately, with loving detail, and not exploitatively, as our cinema is wont to do, writes Raja Sen. "Once upon a......

Review: Barfi! makes us BELIEVE

Anurag Basu's Barfi! is like finding bliss in cinema, writes Sukanya Verma.Jerry Maguire pointed it out long ago. We *do* live in a cynical world. And the worrying part is that it's not an......

This Ice Age leaves you cold

Blame it on Pixar.Over the last few years, with films like Finding Nemo and The Incredibles, the wizards of animation have spoilt us terribly, making animated films seriously witty and intricately......

Who invented football?

Who really inventedfootball -- Native Americans? South American Indians? Was it Mexicans, Florentines, Chinese, Japanese or Eskimos?As Germany gears up for this month's World Cup, the "Fascination......