Seven books were nominated for the The Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize this year. The contenders are: In Search of a Future: The Story of Kashmir by David Devadas, Kari by Amruta Patil, A Reluctant......
Indian officialdom enjoys well over a week of Sundays every month. That is, a minimum of 120 days a year, not counting casual, medical and other contingency leaves, says Sunil Sethi Stands the......
The Hindu's correspondent in China Pallavi Aiyar will release her book Smoke and Mirrors: An Experience of China, published by Harper Collins India, this week. For the last five years, Aiyar has......
Thefracas surrounding the perceived racism of the comic book Tintin in the Congo is entering a new phase, with a decision on a fresh civil suit pending in a Brussels court. Pallavi Aiyar traces the......
Polyphonic and pluralistic, as the world's two most populous democracies, India and the European Unionare beasts of similar temperament. Yet of all the countries that the EU has a strategic......
Rajan Bharti Mittal, vice-chairman and managing director of Bharti Enterprises and president of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Ficci), makes a passionate appeal for......
In 2008, HCL Technologies acquired the UK-based systems application integrator, Axon Global, in what was the largest ever buy by an India-based service provider. Steve Cardell, CEO of HCL Axon,......
The much talked about decline of Europe was thus about a relative decline, says Pallavi Aiyar. It wasn't long before I realised that moving from Beijing to Brussels entailed more than a switch from......
With less than two months to go for the climate-change summit in Copenhagen, India has resolved to re-brand itself as a deal-maker, says Pallavi Aiyar. India has spent the better part of the last......
At a time of global turbulence in the banking sector, Rana Kapoor, Founder and Chief Executive Officer YES Bank, believes further opening up of India's banking sector to foreign players will be......