'My 7 years in Anda cell were the most inhuman form of solitary confinement'

'When there was no crime committed, everything had to be fabricated.' 'They see it as a war, and everything is fair in love and war.' IMAGE: Prashant Rahi. Photograph: Kind courtesy Jyoti Punwani......

TN police release Raj Bhavan petrol bomb attack video, say no security lapse

The Tamil Nadu police on Friday released video footage related to the Raj Bhavan petrol bomb case to prove that only a lone man, Karukka Vinoth, was involved in the incident and that he was......

Over 18,000 cops to be deployed for safe New Year celebrations in Delhi

The Delhi police on Thursday said more than 18,000 of its personnel from district and traffic units will be deployed across the national capital to ensure security during New Year celebrations.......

Indian working with UN arrested for alleged sexual abuse

An Indian working with the United Nations has been arrested on sexual abuse charges filed by a woman colleague. According to the website Inner City Press, Dushyant Joshi is the head of the UN's......

How they converted a comma into big business!

It is difficult to bracket Cactus Communications into any industry. Founded by a Wharton graduate in Computer Science, Finance and Accounting and his Mumbai-educated brother with a degree in......

Economic mantras Modi must learn to be successful

The basic wisdom of economics is that not compromising is costly. If Narendra Modi doesn't heed this lesson, he risks running an administration that is ineffective at best and disastrous at worst,......

Is this world's most generous internship?

There's a better way to find and hire the very best employees. I keep hearing people say that they only hire the top 1 percent of job seekers. At my company, Fog Creek Software, I want to hire the......

The amazing story of Goldman Sachs

Goldman Sachs has emerged from the market bust as a trading colossus. New Chief Lloyd Blankfein must fuel growth -- and avoid an unforeseeable blowup. No wonder this nebbishy Master of the Universe......

He enriched the world with his magical voice

His songs were the anchor, the substratum, if you will, upon which life unfolded day after day, decade after decade -- across villages, towns, cities, and regions.Siva Sankar pays a tribute to S P......

Aamir Khan to star in Anurag Kashyap's next?

Imagine this: A big-budget, spectacular drama starring Aamir Khan, presented by Oscar-winning filmmaker Danny Boyle and directed bymaverick filmmakersAnurag Kashyap. Had the stars aligned......

Mrinal Sen: 'I wish I could start from scratch'

'How do you expect me to tone down my anger when the most prominent culture in India today is the culture of corruption, in every sphere of life?'Mrinal Sen, who passed into the ages on December 30......

Review: Thor: The Dark World is silly and it knows it

You'll be hard pressed to find another hero so totally, awesomely Super, insists Raja Sen. It might seem absurdly obvious, but sometimes we forget that comic book movies just need to be comic.......

Snoop Dogg on a mission in Augusta to make golf cool

‘Now is the time for golf to get hip’ IMAGE: Snoop Dogg at Augusta Masters. Photograph:  Twitter Rapper Snoop Dogg this week said that while the US Masters may be the most......

'Dhoni has never shown his palm to an astrologer'

'He believes in his destiny and says "naseeb accha hai, chalne do".' Photograph: Kind courtesy BCCI   When Bharat Sundaresan, one of India's finest cricket writers, travelled to Ranchi to......

The bishop who played cricket

Determination allied with intelligence helped David Sheppard fashion a successful if intermittent career in the strong England side of the 1950s before rising to the office of bishop in the Church......

'My destiny was to write about the game'

'That has always been my ambition -- to take the reader behind the scenes, to the places he was not allowed to visit, but which I had the privilege of entering.'Haresh Pandya remembers Ted Corbett,......

V V S Laxman on the Magic of Cricket

'If fame, money and comfort are the only factors that drive us, then we are playing cricket for entirely the wrong reasons.' IMAGE: V V S Laxman celebrates his double century in the memorable Eden......