Transformed Ayodhya turns a page with temple pivot

Security barricades, barbed wires and frequent frisking by police personnel have been a common sight in Ayodhya. But the holy city has now undergone a paradigm shift fuelled by massive......

The Complete Hotelier And Host Extraordinaire

Shreekant Sambrani remembers P R S 'Biki' Oberoi, personal friend and hospitality icon, who passed into the ages this week. Illustrations: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com   P R S (Biki to friends)......

Booking rush in Ayodhya hotels for Ram temple opening

Hotels in the city are seeing a rush among travel agents and devotees to book rooms ahead of the consecration of the idol at the upcoming Ram temple, an event still six months away. IMAGE: Workers......

Ayodhya to get 'Ramaland' on the lines of Disneyland

‘With Ramaland, the tourism department is looking to attract children and adults alike. It’ll be learning with entertainment.’ IMAGE: The construction work on the Ram temple in......

The Threats To India's Prosperity

Looking under the hood, I see India on the terrible, but commonplace, road to prosperity failure, warns Rathin Roy. IMAGE: Inside a factory in West Bengal. Photograph: Sahiba Chawdhary/Reuters......

Why Builders Won't Drop Home Prices

'What happens in the real estate market is that once the prices go up it goes on to stay at that level.' 'It might not increase and at the same time the prices will not come down too.' IMAGE: A......

Budget 2024: What hospitality industry wants from Nirmalaji

Hospitality players want the government to accord infrastructure status to hotels to make investments on new properties more attractive rather than categorising them as luxury or even 'sin goods'......

Ultra-luxury housing in India sees shift to ultra-customised marketing

With the rise of ultra-luxury housing in India comes ultra-customised marketing. Photograph: Christopher Pike/Reuters Developers selling high-end homes, priced above Rs 20 crore, are moving away......

'Film-making is a soul-sapping profession'

'Or because I am getting a s**tload of money.' IMAGE: Vikram Gokhale, Jitendra Joshi, Saniya Bhandare, Neena Kulkarni and Sanjay Mone in Nikhil Mahajan's Godavari. He was floating on air,......

Remembering Nitin Desai's Magic

There's a moment in Jodhaa Akbar when Aishwarya Rai Bachchan's newly married queen is offered a tour of her marital abode by the palace help. Luxury isn't new for her, but the unmistakable awe in......

A Beginner's Guide To K-Drama

It's addictive. It's entertaining. It's gorgeous. Once bitten by the K-drama bug, there's no going back. A binge worthy mix of style and substance, South Korea's small-screen wave, which hit......

The Night Manager Review: Thrilling, And Yet...

The Night Manager has no surprises, observes Deepa Gahlot. For those who may have read the book by spy thriller maestro John Le Carré and watched the 2016 series, The Night Manager based on......

Why Dutee Chand wants to sell her BMW

'Today, I don't have any cash!' IMAGE: Dutee Chand with her BMW. Photograph: Dutee Chand/Facebook   India's fastest woman has put her luxury car up for sale. Reason? Dutee Chand wants to......

Teams could shut down due to COVID-19 crisis

IMAGE: Four-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome and other Ineos riders have been carrying bottles of sanitizers to hospitals in regions worst affected by the......

Impact of the coronavirus on Formula 1

Moody's changes Formula One's outlook to negative IMAGE: Fans show their disappointment outside the circuit after discovering the race was cancelled before practice for the F1 Grand Prix of......