New York Labor Day Parade Was A Spectacle!

Thousands of workers of every description -- from journalists to steel workers, from painters to New York cops, from auto to engineering workers -- marched for four hours down 5th Avenue one of......

Rau's IAS Study Circle: What You Must Know

Rau's felt the need to be where the action was.The institute that once drew largely elite students also decided to expand its base and cater to a wider pool. IMAGE: Rapid Action Force personnel......

Carnatic Music Goes From Raga To Rage

They all seem to forget that the Music Academy is as much an independent institution as T M Krishna is an individual musician. In drawing those red lines for the Academy management, they do not......

The Star Gazer Stars At TIME Gala

At this year's TIME ball in New York City on Thursday, April 25, you would have run into a Coimbatore-born American scientist, looking lovely in Sabyasachi Mukherjee designer finery, who would most......

How IIMs are trying newer ways to beat stress

Last Sunday, students at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIM-B), took lessons from Kathak maestro Birju Maharaj in, guess what, stress management. It's not just IIM-B. IIM-Ahmedabad......

2 Indians selected as Yale World Fellows

Two Indians -- Monika Halan and Sonali Kochhar -- have been selected for the prestigious Yale World Fellows, which is Yale University's signature global leadership development initiative.Monika......

'You cannot demand patriotism from foreign investors'

The role of a government is to enhance infrastructure and let the people of the country who have immense business acumen build manufacturing, S P Kothari, Deputy dean, MIT Sloan School of......

India: 20th in software piracy list

The 2004 Business Software Alliance - IDC study of global trends in software piracy puts India in the list of the top 20 software pirating countries in the world.Ranked at 20, with a software......

'I could see the hunger in Priyanka's belly'

'She was going through a low time and didn't know where her career was going.' IMAGE: Akshay Kumar and Amitabh Bachchan in Ek Rishta: A Bond Of Love. Did you know that Juhi Chawla was pregnant......

Life comes 'full circle' for A R Rahman

For Rahman, who had never attended college, the event hosted by the Berklee College of Music must have seemed humbling. Alla Rakha Rahman galvanised Boston recently, selling out the city's......

Meet the Sexiest Ladies in the World

When we heard of Maxim's Top 100 list of the hottest women on the planet, we were curious to see if any of our Bollywood babes made it to the list. And surprise, surprise, not only did they make......

Q comes to Bollywood

If you know your bond movies, you love Q pretty much by default.Standing for Quartermaster -- and most memorably played by Desmond Llewelyn -- Q was the man who equipped James Bond with his......