The majority judgment of the Supreme Court on Tuesday on the private properties issue criticised former apex court judge V R Krishna Iyer for "postulating a rigid economic theory" that advocated......
... while learning from past tech revolutions, suggests Ajit Balakrishnan. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com Every two decades or so, we, humans, are forced to deal with a......
Ajit Balakrishnan decodes the post-ChatGPT angst. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com Here are some samples of media headlines across the world and across all media types: 'ChatGPT: The 10......
Leaders of the Communist Party of India-Marxist gathered last week in Kerala, the only state the CPI-M still rules today. The CPI-M's 23rd party congress was convened in Kannur in Malabar from......
'I will try and make my panchayat a model one in Bihar.' IMAGE: Aakanksha Basu, the 22-year-old head of Meghauna panchayat in Bihar. All photographs: Kind courtesy Aakanksha Basu She dreamt of......
Money permits patronage.Money means power. No wonder details of the crores locked up in NPAs and never repaid loans are top secret, says Sunanda K Datta-Ray. Photograph: PTI Photo It could well be......
'Jobs will exist at very high levels or low levels of skill sets.''People, who are in middle level jobs, are the ones who are facing the problem as such jobs are fast disappearing because of......
No new ideas, please, we are Indian. Seventeen years into the 21st century, we are still fixated by the ideas of the 20th century, says T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan. Illustration: Uttam......
Teamlease's Manish Sabharwal tackles 5 criticisms of demonetisation.Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com One of the most interesting bets in Mumbai's financial community earlier this month was......
There is mounting evidence that the Information Revolution may mean the end of large-scale vertically integrated businesses whose guiding principle, “economies of scale”, was the......
'I am enjoying hanging out with my son.' IMAGE: Saif with son Taimur. Photograph: Kind courtesy Kareena Kapoor/Instagram Saif Ali Khan is keeping himself occupied in the lockdown by doing things......
On planes, on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hotstar, Zee5, Hulu, MUBI, Kanopy, film festivals... Aseem Chhabra tell us how he watched 309 films in 365 days. IMAGE: Joanne Froggatt in Downton Abbey. I......
How many of the 354 films Aseem Chhabra watched in 2017 have you seen? IMAGE: Vin Diesel and Deepika Padukone in xXx: Return of Xander Cage. For some people, watching films is a social experience,......
Argo tells a staggeringly peculiar story, and tells it with violent tension and extreme cleverness, writes Raja Sen.God bless grown men who make swooshy laser sounds with their mouths. Wonderment......
Pavithra Srinivasan reviews Ilaingnan. Post YOUR reviews here!Martin Production's Ilaingnanis based on the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi's own novel, and he's written the story,......
'Ramchandra Guha has sent down an express delivery at Sunil Gavaskar, the great batsman who seldom wore a helmet while facing the fastest of fast bowlers.' 'Gavaskar may have easily ducked the......
The sight of a Russian athlete crossing herself before a race was one small example among many of how the country has changed in the generation since it last hosted the Olympic Games. Elena......
Six-times World table tennis champion and 1992 Olympic gold medallist Jan-Ove Waldner has become the first living foreigner to appear on a Chinese postage stamp. "There is an enormous demand for......