India's New Trilemma

...Kids, jobs, emigration, notes Ajit Balakrishnan. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com   "Aren't you kids going to have children?" I asked one of my nieces who had come for a one-week......

I have become gaali proof: Modi on personal attacks

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday targtted the opposition parties and said that they believe they have the right to abuse and that he has become "gaali-proof" after "being continuously abused......

INDIA bloc wants to turn majority community into 2nd class citizens: Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said INDIA bloc parties want to turn the country's majority community into second-class citizens and also alleged that "jihadis" across the border are......

After SC directive, Guv Bose invites Mamata for talks on VCs' appointment

West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose on Thursday wrote to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee inviting her to the Raj Bhavan for a meeting on the appointments of vice-chancellors at different......

Srikant Datar, 2nd Indian to be named Dean of Harvard Business School

Eminent Indian-origin academician Srikant Datar has been named as Dean of Harvard Business School, succeeding Nitin Nohria and becoming the second consecutive dean hailing from India to lead the......

Edtech start-up Eruditus gets funding from Zuckerberg duo

Eruditus runs on a partnership model with top global universities such as MIT, Columbia, Harvard, Cambridge, INSEAD, Wharton, and UC Berkeley, offering courses in coding, data science, fintech,......

Andaman & Nicobar can attract Hong Kong investments

'Leaders of the Indian community in Hong Kong had broached the idea of developing the Andaman and Nicobar islands for investment and setting up manufacturing units,' points out Rup Narayan Das.......

MIT congratulates Abhijit Banerjee, wife Esther Duflo

MIT, in a release, said the 'work of Duflo and Banerjee has emphasised the use of field experiments in research, to bring the principles of laboratory-style randomised, controlled trials to......

'The boy was very tall; his eyes were beautiful'

'Name?''Amitabh.''Can't be only Amitabh. Amitabh what?''Bachchan. Amitabh Bachchan.'Alarm bells. 'Are you related to Dr Bachchan?''Yes,' he hesitated, 'he is my father.''Then this contract cannot......

'I'd have loved to present Pratidwandi at Cannes'

'Where Pratidwandi is concerned, there are very few men standing.' IMAGE: Dhritiman Chatterjee in Satyajit Ray's Pratidwandi. Dhritiman Chatterjee, a post-graduate in economics, came from a world......

10 roles that proved Soumitra Chatterjee's versatility

This is an alternate list of 10 screen roles that saw Soumitra Chatterjee, a paragon of gentility, venture beyond his comfort zone and deliver masterclasses of subtlety and depth, lists Saibal......

'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......

Chuni Goswami: Indian football's first poster boy

If PK Banerjee was for the masses, then Goswami belonged to the classes IMAGE: With his good looks and charm, Chuni Goswami was a crowd-puller. Photograph: AIFF Media Chuni Goswami was......