When a Nobel Laureate comes to town!

What does Nobel Laureate Abhijit Banerjee thinks about India's education sector?Text: Prasanna D Zore/Rediff.com. Photographs: Rajesh Karkera/Rediff.com IMAGE: Nobel Laureate Abhijit Banerjee......

Floundering on founding myths

The responses to my last column reminded me of a suspicion that I have nurtured for a long time -- that readers are fundamentally divided into two camps, each believing certain 'facts' about India,......

Corporate social irresponsibility

Corporate India's latest obsession is corporate social responsibility.Talk to any company, you will hear of many stories of how it has helped victims of a natural calamity, undertaken poverty......

Day 9: Aaj ki Taaza Khabar

I-T lens on current account deposits over Rs 12.5 lakh. All the news and more post demonetisation. IMAGE: A man gets his finger inked as he exchanges his old notes in Mumbai. Photograph: Sahil......

'You can't stand on a podium and preach to India'

'India is no longer the India of the '70s and the '80s.''It's a large country with the fastest growing economy.''In working with India, you just can't go and humiliate the nation publicly.' USIBC......

JRD Tata: A life extraordinary

The year 2004 is significant for the Tata Group, asit marks the 100th birth anniversary of JRD Tata and Naval Tata and the death centenary of Jmsetji Tata.For two generations and more JRD......