Rediff.com regrets to inform you that our dear colleague Arthur J Pais passed away in New Jersey on Friday. Arthur, an Editor at Rediff.com and India Abroad -- the Indian-American newsweekly owned......
Srikanth 'Sri' Srinivasan, 45, a brilliant Indian American legal mind, who, in August last year was named principal deputy solicitor general of the United States, succeeding Neal Kumar Katyal, has......
After Joseph Mathai's death in the 9/11 attacks his wife Teresa found solace in doing service in his memory. Arthur J Pais reports The World Trade Center had a special connection with Joseph......
Five non-resident Indian kids have been selected to be the 2008 Presidential Scholars, the US government's highest honour for high school seniors. Ravi N Sankar, Ishna A Sharma, Mythili K Iyer,......
Deepti Hajela was elected president of the South Asian Journalists Association in January. Born at Columbia University, New York, in 1994, SAJA fosters ties between journalists from South Asia in......
Late last year, Ian Moray stumbled across a cotton-candy-pink Web site called Whateverlife.com. As manager of media development at the online marketing company ValueClick Media, he was searching......
From Web designers to future fashion moguls, meet high-school students who have already taken the entrepreneurial leap. Meet six students who have already taken the entrepreneurial leap. 1. Laima......
"The child is father to the man," the saying goes. Just so, the start-up is father to the large successful company. Now that I'm a venture capitalist, helping entrepreneurs build into their small......
In an interesting chat with rediff.com on Friday, Sumant Sinha, chief financial officer of the Aditya Birla Group, shared his thoughts on the forthcoming Pan IIT Global Conefrence 2006 to be held......
Careers don't just reflect which jobs are available, they represent who we are as people. Fast Company was founded on that notion (among others). The ensuing 10 years have seen everything from the......
Richard Attenborough's Gandhi celebrated 30 glorious years on November 30.On Friday, some key players gave Rediff.com fascinating accounts about the making of the epic.Aseem Chhabra looks back on......
Nanda Anand grew up in Kolkata, reading Russian literature Alexander Pushkin was her favourite, as were the romance novels of Barbara Cartland. And Hollywood films filled up her imagination. She......
Tanuj Chopra, currently in the graduate film program at Columbia University, will have his first feature film Punching at the Sun premiere at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival next month.......