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The Shashi Tharoor You Don't Know

'India mattered to him and he wanted to matter to India.' IMAGE: Shobha Tharoor Srinivasan, Dr Shashi Tharoor's younger sister. Photographs and Videos: Archana Masih for Rediff.com Shobha Tharoor......

A Toast To The Butter Man

Among the many pearls of wisdom he bequeathed me, this one is probably the most precious: If you don't enjoy what you have created, how will anyone else?Manish Jhaveri remembers the legendary adman......

Jayalalithaa's Death: Will Sasikala Be Prosecuted?

Jayalalithaa was the third chief minister in Tamil Nadu to die in office, after her mentor M G Ramachandran (1987) and before that his mentor C N Annadurai (1969).The state government should have......

Hamara Bajaj Kindled Pride in Being Indian

In 1989 when Bajaj came out with their legendary and elegant Hamara Bajaj campaign, that looked more at apna India, rather than the scooter, and at all hues of scootered Indians, it drew millions......

'Caste, community, religion don't work in Goa'

'The politics of Goa is moving around a sole entity, which is land.' IMAGE: Bharatiya Janata Party President Jagat Prakash Nadda with Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant and others at the flagging......

Sylvester daCunha, creator of iconic 'Amul girl' campaign, passes away

Advertising industry veteran Sylvester daCunha, the creator of the iconic 'Amul Girl' campaign that started in the 1960s, has died, the Gujarat-based milk cooperative that owns the dairy brand said......

Advertising titan, civic activist, actor, writer Gerson da Cunha is dead

Advertising industry veteran Gerson da Cunha, a multi-faceted personality passionate about civic activism in later years, died in Mumbai on Friday after a brief illness, a former colleague said.......

Vote: Will you buy Amul Girl merchandise?

Even in her 50s, the Amul Girl has far greater clout than any brand ambassador in India. And India's largest dairy organisation may soon cash in on that. Sohini Das reports. As the country's......

Road to 70: Five brands that grew with India and on Indians

Pond's, Parle-G, Cadbury, Asian Paints and Amul have captured the changing face of India through the seven decades What happens when the scent of a biscuit becomes inextricably linked with the......

Now, Swachh Bharat seeks global facelift

The focus on Swachh Bharat has sharpened with Prime Minister Modi asking ministers to show the outcomes of schemes launched since the NDA government came to power Swachh Bharat, which was ranked......

'I Can't Talk To My Parents About My Film'

'That's how big this taboo is.''It would be difficult for them to understand what I am trying to show with Jaggi.' IMAGE: Ramnish Chaudhary in Jaggi. In Director Anmol Sidhu's sombre drama Jaggi,......

'I'm a lone wolf in this grand theatre of life'

'But hey, even lone wolves howl at the moon every now and then, right?' IMAGE: Amit Sadh in Duranga 2. Amit Sadh plays a gruesome serial killer in the second season of the thriller Web series,......

Ghoul makes it terrifying to be a Muslim

'Any Muslim who shows even the slightest hint of revolutionary thought is marked as 'infected'.''At that point, he is taken to the nearest Detention Centre where a procedure called Reconditioning......

'Yash Chopra said, "Tumne haste, haste, sub kuch keh diya"'

'The new Indian cinema has still not found its voice and identity. It's trapped under the deadwood weight of Bollywood and popular Indian cinema.' IMAGE: Rahul Bose as Agastya Sen in English......

The Top 10 Films at Cannes 2015

Gerson da Cunha lists his favourite films from the recently concluded Cannes International Film Festival. If there’s one point the 68th Cannes International Film Festival has underlined,......

PIX: Lewandowski wins it for Barca; Mbappe rescues PSG

A round-up of Saturday's action in LaLiga, Ligue 1 and Serie A. IMAGE: Robert Lewandowski celebrates with Jordi Alba and Gavi after scoring Barcelona's only goal of the match against Mallorca at......

PIX: Big wins for Barca, PSG as Lewandowski, Mbappe find net

IMAGES from the football matches played across Europe on Sunday. Lewandowski scores two as Barcelona thrash Real Sociedad IMAGE: Real Sociedad's Igor Zubeldia and FC Barcelona's Robert Lewandowski......

Manchester City's ban appeal to be heard by CAS in June

IMAGE: The Adjudicatory Chamber of UEFA's Club Financial Control Body (CFCB) had found Manchester City guilty of overstating its sponsorship revenue between 2012 and 2016. Photograph: Phil......

PIX: Messi stars for Barca; Oxlade-Chamberlain double

A round of Wednesday night's Champions League group stage matches. IMAGE: Lionel Messi celebrates scoring Barcelona's opening goal in the Champions League Group F match against Slavia Prague, at......

How Brazil is planning to guard the Olympics against terror attacks

- 'One person can cause a lot of damage and you need to operate at a micro level to get ahead of it' The attacks that killed 130 people in Paris last November and 32 in Brussels in March forced a......

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