'India is only a 150-year-old name'

'Bharat is a name that is 7,000 years old.''We are not saying the name of the country should be changed from India to Bharat; we only recommended that the stress should be on Bharat.' Photograph:......

Will realise the dreams of Constitution makers: Victoria Gowri

Lekshmana Chandra Victoria Gowri took oath as additional judge of the Madras high court on Tuesday, minutes before the Supreme Court rejected a petition challenging her appointment over her alleged......

'My art is my God and the stage is my temple'

'Art has no religion. An artist is an artist.' IMAGE: Mansiya. All photographs: Kind courtesy Mansiya VP/Facebook It was in the late 1950s that an 11-year-old Hyder Ali joined the Kerala......

Governor returns bill seeking NEET exemption for TN, says poor will be hit

Tamil Nadu Governor RN Ravi has returned to the state government, an assembly Bill seeking exemption to the state from the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test, saying it went against the......

Noted economist BPR Vithal passes away

Noted economist B P R Vithal, who served as a member of the Tenth Finance Commission, died in Hyderabad on Friday.  IMAGE: Economist BPR Vithal. Photograph: Courtesy, Vice President of......

The 10 highest paid Indian-American CEOs

Satya Nadella is the highest-paid CEO in the US. So how do the other Indian-American executives fare? Image: Satya Nadella with Bill Gates. Photograph, courtesy: Microsoft     Rs 525......

Nooyi's growing clout in global business

India-born PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi has been mighty busy and mighty vocalin 2009, and it's clear that her clout in the world of business and finance, both in America and abroad, is growing. All her......

IIT-Madras director on IITs and Pan-IIT event

Prof Madaboosi Santanam Ananth is one of the most vocal academicians in the country. He has been the director of IIT-Madras since 2001. Prof Ananth joined as faculty in the department of chemical......

'Gemini Ganesan is not Rama, he is Krishna'

It was ten years ago March 14, 1995, to be precise -- that I met 'Gemini' Ganesan for an interview for the first time in my life. I was new to Madras (it was not Chennai then) and new to the world......