What George Harrison learnt from Ravi Shankar

Pandit Ravi Shankar was George Harrison's link into the Vedic world.A fascinating excerpt from Kavita Das's Poignant Song: The Life And Music Of Lakshmi Shankar to mark Pandit Ravi Shankar's birth......

What each passing year teaches us

We are spectators who have no voice and no power to influence the giant changes being imposed on all of us, says Aakar Patel.Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com As we take the final corner on......

US-UK relationship 'highest level of special': Trump

United States President Donald Trump said he apologised to Prime Minister Theresa May on Friday over his bombshell interview with a British tabloid, in which he claimed she had ignored his advice......

Pope Francis says 'world at war', decries terrorist attack on French church

Pope Francis said on Wednesday the world was at war but argued that religion was not the cause, as he arrived in Poland a day after jihadists murdered a Catholic priest in France. In his first......

Buffett on US-China, missing Amazon story, cryptocurrency

Here’s a pick of what Warrenn Buffett had to say over the weekend, and his annual ‘Woodstock for Capitalists’.  Saturday saw the staging of ‘Woodstock for......

Warren Buffett looks to succession, signals future growth problems

Greg Abel and Ajit Jain, two top Buffett lieutenants, would be prime candidates Image: Buffett is preparing in May to celebrate 50 years of running Berkshire, whose market value is now $363......

The flip side of Apple's success

Ten weeks after the Apple faithful camped out on sidewalks in a delirious Woodstock-style frenzy to be first in line for iPhones, they were threatening to take to the streets again--only this time......

Mallya to bid for New Zealand liquor co

Continuing with his acquisition juggernaut on foreign shores, liquor baron Vijay Mallya of United Breweries Group has now set his sights on New Zealand based company Independent Liquor Ltd. World's......

Farewell, Major Saab

Major Bikramjeet Kanwarpal succumbed to COVID-19 on May 1.After retiring from the Indian Army, the major became a successful actor in films and television.An old friend salutes a wonderful human......

Prem Chopra, Shakti Kapoor, Danny: Where Bollywood baddies live

A look at Mumbai's famous homes.After veteran actors and actresses residing in posh areas of Mumbai, here come the other famous addresses from Bollywood -- of actors who rose to fame by playing......

Life Before Pi: The Brilliant Films Of Ang Lee

It did not come easy for Ang Lee.Today, the 58-year old Taiwan-born Oscar winning filmmaker, the man and the energy behind Life of Pi, is widely recognised as one of the leading directors in the......

What Carlos Santana thinks about India

E-mail interviews are a tricky beast, especially when the person to be interviewed is someone like Carlos Santana, stories about whom are part of rock, guitar, and music legend. He once told an......

Woods in upbeat mood for next year

Tiger Woods, optimistic as ever, is excited about his prospects for 2005 despite struggling off the tee for most of this year and winning just one title.The former world number one wasted a golden......