'Mother Teresa must have been God incarnate'

'When one was with Mother, one realised you were with somebody who was the nearest person to God.' IMAGE: Preeti Roy with Mother Teresa. Photograph: Kind courtesy Preeti Roy   Preeti Roy is......

Modi's Cult Of Personality

'It was more than ego.''It carried with it a sincere belief that he was the quintessence of the country, that the country's destiny was irrevocably intertwined with his destiny.'An excerpt from T J......

Mom, child returning from China test Covid +ve in TN

A woman and her six-year-old daughter, who returned from China via Colombo, tested positive for COVID-19 at the Madurai airport in Tamil Nadu, a senior health official said on Wednesday. IMAGE:......

'Mary Roy was a very unorthodox person'

'She will forever be remembered for being a disrupter -- a disrupter in a positive sense -- as she disrupted the hierarchies that existed in society!' Illustrations: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com Mary......

Indian exchanges miss global M&A action

While stock exchanges worldwide are consolidating, not much action is happening in India due to the cap on equity holding in stock exchanges.On Tuesday, the Deutsche Borse and the New York Stock......

An Indian tribute: Paul Samuelson, Guru

Paul A Samuelson, one of the world's greatest economists, passed into the ages on Sunday, December 13. Janata Party President and economist Dr Subramanian Swamy, a student of Professor Samuelson,......

Music & business: What's the relation?

Have you ever thought of hot idlis for breakfast accompanied by German Riesling, or, say, vadas with Italian Campari? If that's a wild thought think of this: mixing Carnatic music with management.......

MagikTuch to support visually impaired singers

Watching music talent shows such as Zee TV's 'Hero Honda Sa Re Ga Ma Pa' and Sony TV's 'Indian Idol', modelled on the UK-based reality television programme 'Pop Idol', are a popular national......

Sam Bahadur introduces us to Indira Gandhi

What is Bollywood celebrating? Please click on the images below for a better look.   IMAGE: So what's the first thing that Vicky Kaushal does after he gets married? Jump right into work,......

Bollywood's gals make their own movies!

It seems that almost every actor is doubling up as a producer. Bollywood's superstars like Salman Khan, Shah Rukh Khan, Aamir Khan, Akshay Kumar, Ajay Devgn, Hrithik Roshan and John Abraham have......

How a desi is making waves at MoMA

'We'll certainly have Hollywood productions, so why wouldn't we have Bollywood?'Indira Kannan reports. IMAGE: Members of the 69th Berlin film festival's international jury arrive for the awards......

The Very Best of Moushumi Chatterjee

Happy birthday, Moushumi! In an industry where it is common to sound the last trumpet for an actress no sooner has she tied the knot, Moushumi Chatterjee is a shining example of nothing can stop......

India at the Asian Games: Day 5

Sandhyarani settles for silver in wushu India's Sandhyarani Devi setteled for a silver in the women's sanshou 60kg wushu event after losing to Khadijeh Azadpour of Iran in the final in the Asian......

Table Tennis: Gao Ning wins Indian Open

Top seed Gao Ning of Singapore proved his class to score a convincing 4-1 victory over home favourite Achanta Sharath Kamal and claim the men's singles title at the Indian Open Table Tennis......

Duleep Trophy, 2002-03

Plate 'B' batsmen Sujit Somasunder and J Arunkumar are the leading scorers after three matches in the Duleep Trophy, having scored 352 and 304 runs respectively.Amit Pagnis,of Elite 'B' holds the......