After steering the Rediff mothership for close to 29 years, Ajit Balakrishnan, founder, chairman and CEO, did what few businessmen in this country do -- R-E-T-I-R-E. On August 2, 2024, we were......
‘As such classical Ayurveda is shrinking. Not because people don’t want it but because it is not properly placed in the public mind.’ ‘Health is more and more becoming a......
Forming an international team with United Statesexperts, an IIT Kharagpur researcher is developing a new in-car yawn-detection system that will keep an eye on a driver while behind the wheel.......
Dr Rangachar Kasturi, who was elected the first Indian- American new president of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers-IEEE - Computer Society, envisages 2008 as the Society's......
One should appreciate the sagacity and audacity of JRD and Nani Palkhivala in founding TCS on April 1, 1968.At that time there was no Microsoft or Intel, SAP or Accenture, much less Google.They......
A report published in British journal The Lancet reckons India’s working population will surpass China’s in the mid-2020s. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com India’s gross......
From a technocrat turned fraudster Ramalinga Raju's confession to the snub-nosed Nano, 2009 offered some forgettable and many memorable moments in business. Not just the domestic turf, in the......
Unlike a typical IIT-ian, white-collar jobs did not hold much attraction for Shripad Dharmadhikary. Which is why having passed out from IIT Bombay with a BE in Mechanical Engineering in 1985, he......
IIT-ian Kanchana Thamodaran is a critically acclaimed Tamil writer-activist. Born and brought up in India, she obtained an undergraduate degree in engineering from the Indian Institute of......
Aseem Chhabra lists his favourite Indian films of 2021. Aseem's Best International Films of 2021 In the second year of the pandemic when movie theatres remained closed for an extended period of......
It's official: Manoj Night Shyamalan is a freak. A weirdo. A being not entirely of this world. Or at the least he isthanks to a life-changing experience that happened when he was 10 or thereabouts......