'But he was very quick and did a very stylish adab.''Of course, I didn't expect him to hug.' IMAGE: Lakshmi Murdeshwar Puri and her husband Hardeep Singh Puri, currently India's minister of......
Ultimately quotas kill talent and true meritocracy, argues R Jagannathan. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com We are having the wrong kind of conversations on inclusion and inequity, both in......
Both India and China are run by ‘forceful leaders’ eager to put their ‘stamp on history’, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi working to lead from the front after Manmohan......
This doctor couple put their faith in India. And in return India has put faith in them. IMAGE: The Parikhs in Paris in 1984. On December 5, 1988, a cold winter evening, an Air India plane touched......
Soon afterhearing the horrifying news of the Columbia shuttle disaster,killing Indian American astronaut Kalpana Chawla and six other crew members, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee called......
'What's sad today is that there are so many people who cannot find work, not because the country is devoid of that opportunity, but because we are not doing enough in the country.' Interview with......
Prithvi Raj Singh Oberoi, the 94-year-old veteran corporate hotelier who redefined India's hospitality industry, passed away on Tuesday. Photograph: Kind courtesy, Oberoi Group The Chairman......
It may well turn out to be the year of the print media. Besides new launches in the newspaper and magazine categories, expect 2007 to be known for mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and other......
With his strong views on Bharatiya economics, his appointment to the RBI board may well presage interesting times, says Archis Mohan. Photograph: Sreeram Selvaraj for Rediff.com With the exception......
'India missed the software products revolution (and now is in danger of missing the platform revolution), complacent that we are the software experts of the world based on IT services prowess,'......
All We Imagine as Light has been on several critics' best of the year lists, including Sight and Sound (Payal Kapadia appeared on the magazine's cover, perhaps a first for an Indian filmmaker), to......
'Where Pratidwandi is concerned, there are very few men standing.' IMAGE: Dhritiman Chatterjee in Satyajit Ray's Pratidwandi. Dhritiman Chatterjee, a post-graduate in economics, came from a world......
No one makes news quite like Shah Rukh Khan. Love him or hate him, there's no denying the fact that this superstar generates news like no other. And like a true blue celebrity, he's got his share......
Over the last decade the Indian film industry has reinvented itself.Do film critics need to do that too, asks Vanita Kohli-Khandekar. IMAGE: Shah Rukh Khan and Anushka Sharma in Jab Harry Met......
S Saraswathi traces the movie Supernova's journey in show business. Rajinikanth began his acting career in 1975. As Kabali releases, a look at how an ordinary bus conductor in Bangalore grew to be......