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 Prabhakaran was leaving his house, Rajiv Gandhi called his son Rahul and asked him to fetch his (Gandhi's) bulletproof jacket.He put the jacket on Prabhakaran's back and remarked with his usual......
There will be work today, there will be work tomorrow, there will be work the day after, but nothing will make up for the eternal regret of not seeing a friend when he was dying. IMAGE: Mukkund......
'Our civil society here is vibrant, and courageous, although it is beaten up and beaten down, repeatedly.' IMAGE: A Tiranga walkathon on the eve of Independence Day in Mumbai, August 14, 2023.......
'I was under the illusion that this could never happen to me because my background was such -- corporate CEO, IIT professor, IIT alumnus, IIM...' IMAGE: Scholar-activist Anand Teltumbde, second......
'Employees may well be expected to be on call at almost all times -- much like the standard Indian approach to the workday,' points out Mihir S Sharma.Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com As......
ITC will be the third major organised player in the frozen food segment after McCain, which is mainly in the vegetarian segment and Venky's, which is in non-vegetarian. Diversified conglomerate......
His blind faith in astrology took him down a tragic path that has now come to define his life.T E Narasimhan reports. The life of P Rajagopal, the founder of Saravana Bhavan who passed away on......
'I'm an unbalanced human,' the founding partner of AZB, India's top law firm, tells Pavan Lall.Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com "So, who have you signed on recently?" I ask of Zia Mody,......
'Research shows that customers want their loans instantly.''So the team asked can we reduce the time for approval from 5 days to 30 seconds?''It took the company two years of hard work to tear......
It was a year of so many contradictions and contrasts that it became dangerous to talk about movies, people lost their heads discussing Friday releases, psychiatrists began dabbling in film......
'If it weren't for Om Puri, a whole range of our big city experiences wouldn't have found their honest representations on the screen,' notes Sreehari Nair on the legendary actor's birthday. IMAGE:......
You can say it's a family thing but Kareena Kapoor always wanted to be an actor. Before making her debut in J P Dutta's Refugee opposite another star kid Abhishek Bachchan at the start of the new......
Though the lies hardly go beyond extramarital affairs and conception problems, they are laid out by arresting storytellers who raise the stakes while speaking in tongues not wiped clean to make......
'When Ghar Aaja Pardesi was recorded, we made Lataji hear the song.''Lataji praised Pamji's singing and said, 'Aapko aur gaana chahiye, kitna achchha gaaya hai aapne.' IMAGE: Shah Rukh Khan and......
IMAGES from Day 5 of the French Open at Roland Garros in Paris on Thursday. IMAGE: Poland's Iga Swiatek in action during her second round match against Claire Liu of the US. Photograph: Kai......
'The players all appreciate -- we all appreciate -- the fact that despite the pandemic and the restrictions, because of all of this protocol that has been put in place, the IPL season is still......
20 years ago this week, India and Australia played one of the greatest Test matches in cricket history.Sreehari Nair relives the sound and the fury of that unforgettable game at the Eden Gardens.......