In defence of farm loan waivers

Farm loan waivers should not be regarded as expenditure but as incentive and investment, argues B S Raghavan, the distinguished civil servant. Photograph: Reuters There is a predictable knee-jerk......

26/11: Taj, Oberoi ignored prior security alerts?

The high-level committee that probed the Mumbai 26/11 attacks has blamed the management of Taj and Oberoi hotels for ignoring the security advice given to them much ahead of the terror strikes.......

Cricket is not this important!

A fewweeks ago, I read something that made my stomach churn. The Hindustan Times was reporting: India's tour of Pakistan could be worth $20 millionAll it will take to wipe out the Pakistani Cricket......

Netflix Next Gen: Change is coming

The first phase of online video's growth is over. Netflix, Amazon, Hotstar, Voot, YouTube are all developing a new content ecosystem, finds Vanita Kohli-Khandekar. Netflix's global content......

Industrialist L M Thapar dead

Well-known industrialist Lalit Mohan Thapar died at Escorts hospital on Wednesday due to cardiac and renal failure. He was 76. The head of Ballarpur Industries Limited, who had been admitted to......

Star to axe two serials to make way for KBC-III

The soap operas of Ekta Kapoor and Ravi Chopra are likely to be axed to make way for Kaun Banega Crorepati-III because Star Plus intends to reserve the one-hour primetime slot for the show that......

Thapars to split holding firm

Karam Chand Thapar & Brothers, the Kolkata-based holding company of several Thapar group outfits, will be spilt as part of a division of assets within the Thapar family.When contacted, Vikram......

'He was a beacon of Indian music'

Photograph: Kind courtesy Pankaj Udhas/Instagram Renowned ghazal singer Pankaj Udhas, whose velvet smooth voice gave expression to the many colours of love, longing and heartache in songs such as......

'I am the godfather of disco'

'You make a hit, everything is fit.' IMAGE: Bappi Lahiri at home. Photograph: Hitesh Harisinghani/Rediff.com Singer-composer Bappi Lahiri, who popularised disco music in India in the 1980s and......

'We are living in the golden age of storytelling'

'The amount of work that is happening in the industry today -- whether it is on television, films or the OTT space -- there is ample opportunity for everyone.' IMAGE: Suparn Verma, left, with......

Saying goodbye to the ones we lost in 2020

We have lost so many extraordinary talents this year. Subhash K Jha remembers the dear departed.   Irrfan Khan Photograph: Kind courtesy Irrfan Khan/Facebook Irrfan lost the battle to cancer......