Lillian Carter, a trained nurse and a Peace Corps worker, spent two years of her life, when she was in her late 60s, serving the poor in India, in the 1960s. She was posted as a volunteer to......
Manmohan Singh represented the finest aspects of India, asserts Aakar Patel. IMAGE: Then prime minister Manmohan Singh with former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee before their meeting to......
Veteran Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar, in his latest book, argues that Pranab Mukherjee should have been made Prime Minister in 2012 instead of Manmohan Singh, who was then recovering from......
After steering the Rediff mothership for close to 29 years, Ajit Balakrishnan, founder, chairman and CEO, did what few businessmen in this country do -- R-E-T-I-R-E. On August 2, 2024, we were......
A fortnight after he became the face of the Indian soldier in the Kargil war, on July 8, 1999, Vikram Batra died. He was mortally wounded after fighting through the night while recapturing Peak......
With the rise of ultra-luxury housing in India comes ultra-customised marketing. Photograph: Christopher Pike/Reuters Developers selling high-end homes, priced above Rs 20 crore, are moving away......
'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......
Axel Springer, publisher of the world's most read automotive magazine, Auto Bild, will acquire a majority stake in CarWale, a leading Indian automotive portal, through its joint venture with the......
Axel Springer, publisher of the world's most read automotive magazine, Auto Bild, will acquire a majority stake in CarWale, a leading Indian automotive portal, through its joint venture with the......
Walt Disney Co and Reliance Industries on Wednesday announced signing of binding pacts to merge their media operations in India to create a Rs 70,000 crore behemoth. Photograph: Reuters Reliance......
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......
Filmmaker James Cameronwill be in India on March 13 for the first time. He will be discussing "The Future of Cinema" withAamir Khanin a conclave ata five star hotel inNew Delhi, watched by few......
'Today, in India, if we do good to others, people feel s/he has some motive.''Politics has corrupted our minds.' Made on a shoestring budget, The Kerala Story has emerged a blockbuster. Ever since......
Did you know Alia Bhatt was born in London and holds a British passport like her mother Soni Razdan? Alia has connections with several places about the globe -- Gujarat, Kashmir, UP, Germany,......
I have heard cynics say that Priyanka Chopra Jonas as we know her today is the creation of a PR machinery, but that is rather a poor reading of a determined woman and the work she has done to get......
Photographs: Kind courtesy Sharmila Nicollet/Instagram American athlete Kenny Bednarek has publicly acknowledged the significant role his girlfriend Sharmila Nicollet has played in his track and......
IMAGE: Fans cry as they walk out of the goverment palace Casa Rosada after paying their respects to Diego Maradona in Buenos Aires on Thursday. Photograph: Rodrigo Valle/Getty Images Argentines......
Off-spinner Harbhajan Singh on Monday dismissed as "silly" claims made by a leading sports magazine that some of the Indian cricketers are involved in match fixing. "We don't need to react to such......