Like most right-minded people, Peter Foster hates celebritydom of the manufactured kind. But even the real celebrities, he says, invoke more pity than envy. The Delhi correspondent of The Daily …
Cricket is not quite the conversation topic any more, revealing in a way how warped our view of the game has become when “our” team isn’t winning. Jason Monserrate jumpstarts …
Mukesh Ambani is the chairman and managing director of Reliance Industries. The elder son of Dhirubhai Ambani grew up, like the rest of the family, in a chawl (vottara) in …
There are pictures and then there are airbrushed pictures of the rising, shining, booming India. But do any of them come close to this one published in today’s Star of …
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN, a former Philips executive himself, forwards a YouTube video of what new-age companies like Aditi Technologies are prepared to do to make new recruits feel at home on …
PRITAM SENGUPTA writes from New Delhi: Rajeev Chandrashekhar, who launched himself into India’s bulging billionaire club by selling his 67% stake in BPL Mobile, and became a Rajya Sabha member …
Manmohan Singh is to attend the G-8 summit next week. And an interesting story in The Telegraph, Calcutta, says the Prime Minister will tell the world’s richest nations that India …
Indian politics, if it weren’t so real, could have easily been a page ripped off Ripley‘s Believe It or Not. Just when you thought that the race for the next …
Vinod Mehta is India’s Last Great Editor. As puppy publishers, egged on by tobacco peddlers, softdrinks salesmen, and milkpowder accountants with calculators, strip Indian journalism of its relevance and conscience …
G.N. MOHAN forwards a frame he captured at a theme park in Bijapur, and writes: Sunny days are about to come to an end. ‘Mungaaru Male’ is around the corner. …
The economist Ashok V Desai has a delightful response to the Prime Ministr’s annual sermon to industrialists, and says Manmohan Singh has picked up the Ruler’s Disease. “The state makes …
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: Sonia Miss was going through the final exam papers and it was time to write the ‘Progress Report’ of her wards for one last time. As she …
ASHWINI A. writes from Bangalore: There is good news and bad news for cricket fans in Mysore. The good news first: the Board of Control for Cricket in India is …
What exactly is progress? And when can we be said to have achieved it? Is it progress when double-digit growth translates into personal prosperity, palatial bungalows, trendy malls and fancy …
Political parties are vital cogs in the juggernaut called democracy. The more well-oiled they are, the better their ball bearings rub, the smoother democracy rolls. Debate, discussion, dissent are all …
Purandaradasa‘s Bhagyada Lakshmi Baramma undergoes a delightful transmogrification at a humour festival as the guru takes ill and a stand-in takes centrestage. Former Karnataka chief minister S.M. Krishna is among …
J.N. JAYASHREE writes: Thank you very much for your interest in and support of my husband, M.N. Vijaya Kumar. I am not able to individually reply because I have to …
Just what is it about the theme song of Mission: Impossible that so mesmerises musicians, music teachers, and music lovers? The original TV serial was made nearly four decades ago. …
For someone who opened the floodgates of liberalisation, which put the individual ahead of the “State” at the centre of the Indian universe, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh made a most …
Today, May 25, is the death anniversary of Laxmikant of the Laxmikant-Pyarelal music composer duo. The two, of course, scored music for scores of movies, one of which is Manmohan …
Priests at the Guruvayur Temple have just conducted a mahapunyham to “purify” the temple after the family of minister for overseas development Vayalar Ravi conducted a ceremony. Their “crime”: Although …
There are lists and then there are some more lists. But is there any list, any countdown, as captivatingly and painstakingly compiled as Alonzo Mosley‘s? This is a list of …
Riya, a California tech firm, has just upped and left Bangalore. Reason: It was getting just too expensive for the startup in Silicon Halli. Too expensive to hire top-flight talent …
Mahesh Bhupathi said yesterday that he was ready to pair up once again with Leander Paes for the Beijing Olympics although he isn’t too sure whether he should once again …
Amit Varma has landed the scoop of the year: God’s resignation letter scooped from very highly placed sources. Can we blame Her? Dear Humans This is to inform you that …