Shobha Warrier: Journalistic Role Model

If somebody wants to do an instant noodle study on contemporary Indian politics, Shobhaji's book, Battlefield India - 25 years of Politricks and Economix, is the one to look into, applauds M R......

CPI-M leader Sitaram Yechury's son dies of Covid

Communist Party of India-Marxist general secretary Sitaram Yechury's son Ashish died of COVID-19 at a Gurugram hospital on Thursday morning.  Photograph: ANI Photo The death of the journalist......

We found our nerve to return to normalcy

'This is not a government that will be an ally to supremacist ideology or strongman politics anymore, here or anywhere else,' asserts Suleman Din. IMAGE: US Vice President Kamala Harris applauds......

Army claims to have spotted footprints of 'Yeti'

The Indian Army has claimed its mountaineering expedition team in the higher Himalayas had found "mysterious footprints" in the snow that they believe belong to the Yeti or the abominable snowman,......

Meet Ajit Pai, the man at the center of the US net neutrality debate

The chief of America's Federal Communications Commission is not a fan of net neutrality.So what's his vision of communications and digital policy in these times?We find out... IMAGE: Ajit Pai at a......

The most powerful woman in Indian business

'I want to leave behind the bank stronger and better than when I took over,' SBI Chairman Arundhati Bhattacharya tells Niraj Bhatt and Abhijit Lele. IMAGE: Arundhati Bhattacharya was appointed......

'Indian media needs the next Raghav Bahl or Prannoy Roy'

More people from the content side should be running the business of media if the industry has to grow, Bloomberg's Parry Ravindranathan tells Vanita Kohli-Khandekar. IMAGE: Prannoy Roy, centre,......

Meet the man behind India's FIRST private TV channel

He has many 'firsts' to his name. From being the first national English news reader at Delhi Doordarshan Kendra, to starting India's first private television channel and the first exclusive......

Chasing Angelina Jolie

Last week, Angelina Jolie came to New York City to attend the premiere of British director Michael Winterbottom's A Mighty Heart and also to promote the film with the press who was desperate to......

Penn supports immigration rights organisation

He may be best known for the stoner comedy, Harold And Kumar Go To White Castle, but Kal Penn's concern for immigrants' rights and issues involving Asian-Americans is no schtick.On his website, he......

20 years later, a film on the 1984 riots

Inside the pupa the butterfly might have longed for day to dawn, to flap its tender wings among the flowers. Nobody knew if it yearned for freedom or felt more secure in the pupa's warmth.What we......