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'We Want To Develop Dharavi Like Hong Kong'

'Dharavi will be completely slum free by 2040.' IMAGE: Tourists walk through Dharavi, one of Asia's largest slums. Photograph: Arko Datta/Reuters If you travel on Mumbai's metro line 2A or line 7,......

SCO summit: Another chance to improve India-China ties

'Clearly, the warming of ties can be a 'win-win' for India and China,' says Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar. IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi with Chinese President Xi Jinping.......

Phase Two of #MeToo begins

'Mr Akbar has underestimated the level of pent-up anger and commitment among these women,' a young lawyer tells Sunil Sethi.Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com 'Memory,' said Oscar Wilde, 'is......

Terrorism is a grey area in India-Israel ties

'Unsurprisingly, the joint statement issued after Modi's visit contains a paragraph on terrorism.''It is on the usual lines that India would have with, say, Croatia.''The surprising part is that it......

How to keep the Republic secure

IMAGE: Army tanks roll out at a rehearsal for Republic Day. Photograph: Shahbaz Khan/PTI 'Even if the national security framework is to be threat-based, then the division of security threats......

Can Gopal Vittal guide Airtel through its existential crisis?

When Gopal Vittal spent time as head of marketing at Airtel, between 2006 and 2008, he was with a company at the top of its game. It had pioneered a canny model of outsourcing its infrastructure......

Why being unreasonable is a virtue

'Be reasonable!' How many times have you heard that in your life? How many times have you said it yourself? If those admonitions have any meaning at all, why should you do the opposite? For most......

Pajero tag is dead. Long live Montero!

There are certain clichs a motoring journalist can't ignore. The Mitsubishi Pajero is a clich gone too far. After all, its kith and kin have been the winningest vehicles at the famed Paris Dakar......

World's most expensive cruises

Bill Gates and Paul Allen did it together. So did Queen Beatrice of Holland and Enrique Iglesias. And in 2004, almost 11 million people worldwide did the same thing. Many did it two or three--or......

Bullet trains @ over 250 kmph soon!

As part of the modernization of India Railways, Railway Minister Lalu Prasad is expected to announce a policy envisaging introduction of bullet trains with a minimum speed of 250 kms per hour.To......

What sending Jallikattu to the Oscars means

To an award show that's famous for honouring artists belatedly, we have sent as our official entry one of our major film-makers's weakest work yet, feels Sreehari Nair. So I am taking my evening......

Oscars 2015: Eddie Redmayne, Jullianne Moore win

The 87th Annual Academy Awards have been announced. A quick glance at the winners, listed in bold: BEST PICTURE American Sniper Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) Boyhood The......

Birdman, Boyhood, American Sniper sweep Oscar 2015 nominations

The 87th Annual Academy awards nominations were announced by directors JJ Abrams and Alfonso Cuarón as well as Chris Pine and Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs, at the......

Golden Globes 2015: Julianne Moore, Michael Keaton win

The 72th Annual Golden Globe awards have been announced. There have been quite a few surprises and some expected nods. Here's a quick glance at the winners, listed in bold: BEST MOTION......

Top 11 Foreign Language Films, 2014

Beautiful movies, from across the world. The year 2014 was big when it came to foreign language films, as many film festival award winners played in theatres in New York City. This year 83......

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