'The balance Zakir Bhai created between rhythm and execution...his maths during his performances were perfect, and yet he was a fountain of improvisation.' IMAGE: Eleven-year-old Puneet Thakkar,......
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......
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......
'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......
'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......
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......
Growth in the United States might end the long period of economic malaise that has afflicted the world since 2007, says Ajit Balakrishnan. Last Friday, at the end of three days of absorbing......
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 -......
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......
What I've liked"You can't storyboard a smile," so Bernbach is supposed to have famously said. In other words, even though the idea dictates what the emotion should be, it takes the personal......
'He has taught us to take the moment and ourselves seriously.' IMAGE: Amitabh Bachchan and Saif Ali Khan in Eklavya. Saif Ali Khan has worked with Mr Bachchan only once, in Vinod Chopra's Eklavya......
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......
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......
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......
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......
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......
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......
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......