The bear hug in which the prime minister loves to smother Western VIPs might strike as theatrical, boastful and, above all, unhygienic, in these stricken times, observes Sunanda K Datta-Ray.......
Hindutva social media continues to present the DMK as anti-god, anti-Hindu and anti-Brahmin.The strategy did not work in the past, it has not worked in the present, and won't work in the future,......
In 1995, Ajay Banga, then PepsiCo's marketing director in India, had to fight with the Delhi Municipal Corporation to keep the doors of the Capital's only Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant open.......
Most Indian visitors to the Airbus headquarters at Toulouse in France are pleasantly surprised when Kiran Rao, executive vice-president (marketing and contracts, customer affairs), Airbus, serves......
While low cost carriers like Air Deccan, SpiceJet and others define the new face of Indian aviation, two new ventures are breaking the mould. Club One Air zooms in from north India promoting......
Image: Budget fails to provide 'Aacche din' to poor. Photograph: Reuters The Opposition on Saturday slammed as "hollow and plain" BJP's first full-year union budget, saying it......
A lowdown on what's going on in the Malayalam film industry. Image: Suresh Gopi with his family. Malayalam hero Suresh Gopi’s son Gokul will play the lead role in Mudhugauv. He joins an......
Dhoom 3 is a children’s film made for children who’ve never seen a film, writes Raja Sen. Twenty minutes into Dhoom 3, reeling from the assault of cinema so amateurish it’s hard......
Lootera is a gorgeous, gorgeous film, one that uses its period setting affectionately, with loving detail, and not exploitatively, as our cinema is wont to do, writes Raja Sen. "Once upon a......
Who really inventedfootball -- Native Americans? South American Indians? Was it Mexicans, Florentines, Chinese, Japanese or Eskimos?As Germany gears up for this month's World Cup, the "Fascination......