A Tale Of Two Poorams

If you have an appetite for crowds and the visual spectacle of many focused on one task or activity, a pooram will engage you, notes Shyam G Menon. IMAGE: The materials used on caparisoned......

Why did NRN prevent Sudha Murthy from joining Infosys?

When Narayana Murthy once visited the US for client work during the initial days of Infosys, a temperamental American businessman made him sleep on a large box in a windowless storeroom surrounded......

Manipur: Not A Time To Burn Bridges

The present happenings in Manipur are the wages of continued neglect, and not so benign at that, of a vital region and its people. Had we lavished on the North East even a fraction of the care and......

Can You Spot The Rare Snow Leopard?

IMAGE: A snow leopard is spotted in Himachal Pradesh. Photograph: ANI Photo A mother saves an abandoned child. The Top Videos of the Week, listed by Shailajanand Mishra. Also see: IAF aircraft......

'Vijay came across as a force of nature'

Long before he launched Paytm, Vijay Shankar Sharma, a 32 year old from Aligarh, embarked on his ambitious entrepreneurial journey. A revealing excerpt from Rahul Chandra's The Moonshot Game:......

Cybercriminals look for chink in IT firms' armour

The attackers usually target business suppliers like managed service providers and technology vendors to gain access to a business’ corporate network. Cyberattacks are not uncommon in the......

Brooklyn-based Etsy eyes next stage of India story

While e-commerce sites rush to meet mass demand, Etsy is positioning itself more as a community of artisans where buyers can seek uncommon and unique products rather than mass-produced discounted......

Inside the miserable world of India's domestic workers

'We eat first, they later; we sit on chairs and they on the floor; we call them by their names and they address us by titles.' 'There’s a real feeling that the employers are “big......

'Heart attack to Sidharth?'

'At times, Bigg Boss would bar him from participating in some heavy tasks owing to his poor health.' Photograph: Kind courtesy Shefali Bagga/Instagram India woke up to the tragic news of Bigg Boss......

What we learned from Bollywood in 2016

Sukanya Verma lists the lessons Bollywood taught us this year. We've learned a great deal from Bollywood. How to cook, cycle, romance, study, play cricket, write letters, enjoy rains, you name......

Review: Kya Dilli Kya Lahore is a decent effort

'The idea behind Kya Dilli Kya Lahore is to once again point out the futility of war as well as highlight why human comes before being. And Vijay Raaz accomplishes that to a......

Review: The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is engaging

Arthur J Pais feels The Girl With The Dragon Tattoois an engaging film and could soon become a worldwide hit.Never mind how well you know Swedish author Stieg Larsson's first novel in his......

Abs that Bollywood will envy!

Body-building and the traditional form of kushti (wrestling) reign supreme in this little village near Mumbai.Will Salman Khan. whose farm house is not too far away, drop by for some tips? Text......