Who Will Vote For Vijay, And Why?

Where do Vijay and his TVK expect to get their votes from?Vijay has a huge fan following among women, but will they automatically become his voters like they had done for MGR's AIADMK, asks N......

David Davidar remembers a master chronicler of India's history

'His genius lay in taking his books of history to another level altogether.' Author-Publisher David Davidar's moving tribute to historian Abraham Eraly, who passed away in Puducherry last week. A......

Karat - an organiser with ideological moorings

Prakash Karat on Monday took over the mantle from veteran freedom fighter Harkishan Singh Surjeet as the Communist Party of India Marxist)'s General SecretaryDescribed as a 'hardliner', he is a......

Obama appoints Indian American to national science board

Dr Sethuraman ‘Panch’ Panchanathan, senior vice president, Office of Knowledge Enter­prise Development, ArizonaStateUniversity, was last week appointed to the United States National......

I've never asked for raise: Indra Nooyi

Indra Nooyi, the former chairperson and CEO of PepsiCo, has said that she has “never, ever, ever” asked for a raise as she found it “cringeworthy” and cannot imagine working......

Nooyi's growing clout in global business

India-born PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi has been mighty busy and mighty vocalin 2009, and it's clear that her clout in the world of business and finance, both in America and abroad, is growing. All her......

Nooyi elected to Fed Reserve Bank board

Indra Nooyi, president and chief financial officer, PepsiCo, Inc, has been elected to the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York for a term ending in December 2006.Nooyi was......

IIT-Madras director on IITs and Pan-IIT event

Prof Madaboosi Santanam Ananth is one of the most vocal academicians in the country. He has been the director of IIT-Madras since 2001. Prof Ananth joined as faculty in the department of chemical......

'Gemini Ganesan is not Rama, he is Krishna'

It was ten years ago March 14, 1995, to be precise -- that I met 'Gemini' Ganesan for an interview for the first time in my life. I was new to Madras (it was not Chennai then) and new to the world......