'When my father travelled 5,000 miles to build a new home in Ireland, I doubt he ever dreamed that his son would one day grow up to become its leader.' Vaihayasi Pande Daniel/Rediff.com profiles Dr......
Ivan Menezes and Arvind Subramanian -- whose birthdays were separated by a month and 3 days in 1959 -- became close friends attending the economics course at St Stephen's.Ivan went on to be a......
'Rishi is brought up with Indian values -- respect our parents, respect our uncles, -- but he is more British.' IMAGE: Britain's first Prime Minister of Asian origin Rishi Sunak delivers his first......
The wave of enthusiasm for digital technology had faded as we'd grown more and more worried about what smartphones and social media were doing to society and to us as individuals.Now that......
New York-based Scottish writer Douglas Stuart has won the prestigious 50,000-pound Booker Prize for his autobiographical debut novel Shuggie Bain, a coming of age tale of love and alcoholism set in......
Amartyada, says Omkar Goswami, thank you for being the humane, caring and socially concerned economist that you are. All Illustrations: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com Born in 1933, Amartya Sen......
The last few years may have been turbulent for Vijay Mallya but that didn’t stop him from having fun, says Raghu Krishnan. Image: For his 60th birthday in December, Mallya flew in Enrique......
The high drama of startups speed-dating with angel investors is hard to match, but will India get a new economy at the end of it?, asks Rahul Jacob. Image: India is witnessing a boom of......
Now, the world over, policymakers are dusting off their copies of Keynes' classic, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, and figuring out whether there are any answers there to our......
Companies can be more alert on how various aspects of their operations impact children, writes Rajni Bakshi.Corporations are now among the most powerful entities on earth. Children are the......
IMAGE: Kani Kusruti in All We Imagine as Light. With an entry in almost every major section of the 77th Cannes film festival, which kicks off on Tuesday, May 14. with French musician-filmmaker......
Larger-than-life fun and froth are Karan Johar's mainstay.It's his ability to surprise in places he's least expected to that make him more versatile than he lets on. Karan Johar is a world within a......
It doesn't seem like it, but 25 years have passed since Kuch Kuch Hota Hai released and introduced a bright, youngm director name Karan Johar. He has directed just six feature films since his......
Sita Ramam is a subtle reminder that, in a world where you can be anything, the best thing you can be is kind, observes Divya Nair. 'How far will you go for love?' is a theme often repeated in......
'Kangana is such a stylo, she knows what will look good on her.''If you can explain to her why you are using a certain print on her or why you are putting a hairband on her head, if you have a......
Veteran swimmer Ryan Lochte's brush with Rio police has already hurt his appeal to sponsors - but for two lesser-known team mates, it means they may never get a chance to sign their first......
Elated Australian Mark Webber shrugged off a drive-through penalty to win the German Grand Prix in Nuerburgring on Sunday and end his long wait for Formula One success. Webber won the German Grand......