AIADMK Minus BJP Poses Threat To DMK

From the voter-level, traditionally anti-BJP, anti-Hindutva minorities and other secular voters would have an option, especially in the face of the mounting anti-incumbency against the ruling party......

'Islamism, a Phoenix waiting to arise from the ashes'

'Small bands of terrorists believe they can destabilise superpowers if they are ready to become martyrs.''Since the road to paradise is under the shade of swords, it is a win-win situation for......

Busy with a broom

'As we were setting up our base camp, one of the women with professionally used brooms squatting in a corner and having chai approached us, with a grin. "Namaste Saheb, Acche Din to aahi gaye. From......

Soon, you can visit Times Square in Mumbai!

Image: A mural of the black horse (Kala Ghoda) near Rampart Row, Mumbai. Photograph: Elroy Serrao/Wikimedia Commons Kala Ghoda, the old-world cultural treasure trove in South Mumbai, might soon......

Can Anant Gupta continue Nayar's dream run at HCL?

Just when the general outlook for information technology (IT) firms playing the outsourcing game was looking potentially perilous, HCL Technologies - India’s fourth largest IT firm -......

Edelweiss: An inspiring success story

Rashesh Shah is not your typical Gujarati businessman. He was among the first in his family to study in an English-medium school at a time when his elder cousins and siblings were in......

15 things we wish someone would invent

Technology proceeds at such a breakneck pace that sometimes it feels like we're rocketing into science fiction territory: Animal cloning, unmanned aircraft and space tourism are all recent......

Lijo Jose Pellissery's Women And Mine

Somewhere in the back of my mind, Lijo Jose Pellissery's women have begun to stand for the women in my family, each of them with such an intensely vital sense of personality that she withstands all......

Mughal-e-Azam, 50 glorious years later

A magical, masterful classic completes 50 glorious years. And, like good wine, only gets better with age. The shimmering, incandescing, glorious Mughal-E-Azam is an unforgettable milestone in the......

Review: Jaane Na...Ya Jaane Tu

My favourite moment in Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na-- and there are many -- comes early on, when Ratna Pathak Shah, playing Jai's mother, is shocked to see a sobbing Aditi being led into the house. Jai......

Bombay Dreams: A reckoner

Nearly four years after Shekhar Kapur and Andrew Lloyd Webber, arguably the most successful producer and composer in theatre with international hits like The Phantom Of The Opera and Cats to his......

Paris Opening: Of Lady Gaga, cabaret and a mystery torchbearer

IMAGE: Lady Gaga performs during the Paris 2024 Olympics opening ceremony, on Friday. Photograph: Amanda Perobelli/Reuters Lady Gaga sang a French cabaret song near Notre-Dame cathedral, a giant......

PIX: France Wows With Spectacular Olympics Opening

IMAGE: A balloon carrying the lit Olympic cauldron flies at Jardin des Tuileries during the opening ceremony. Photograph: Marko Djurica/Reuters The city of Paris transformed into a colossal......

One plus two equals fiasco

Hey, all.Subsequent to writing that piece on the Challenger, I saw, on Rediff, a thoughtful piece by R Swaminathan-- Swami, as we know him-- on the marketing of the event.Coincidentally, two of the......