To My Biden-Supporting Friends

'On Saturday, I drove my wife over to Beverly Hills for sushi.''Two blocks before Rodeo, we turned the car around, because we saw hundreds driving pickup trucks and marching down sidewalks,......

Do you know 5,000 Chinese live in India?

The new entrants are young, enterprising Chinese men and women who want to tap into the promising Indian market, discovers Nikita Puri. IMAGE: Ethnic Chinese perform a lion dance to celebrate the......

Partition: What we must remember

The world had almost completely forgotten about Partition, and many never learned about it, says Guneeta Singh Bhalla, the woman who founded the 1947 Partition Archive. IMAGE: The 1947 Partition......

Let's not end up needing a Lokpal for the Lokpal

Good intentions aside, setting up a kangaroo court system in a headlong rush with a gun to the head is hardly the best way to fix an undeniably broken system, says Ram Kelkar. Let's begin by......

Will India ever have a successful Super App?

From PhonePe to Jio, everyone wants to be a Super App but it is still unclear if they will actually work in India. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com A Business Standard news report recently......

Movies, masti and... merchandise!

Global studios and indie content shops tap into the growing fan base for movie and TV characters in India, report Arundhuti Dasgupta and Urvi Malvania.   IMAGE: Disney has been partnering......

Adi Godrej: Parmeshwar's life is a big triumph

A rare interview in which Adi Godrej talks about his wife, Parmeshwar, whom he married in 1965.Parmeshwar Godrej, designer, fashion icon and philanthropist, passed into the ages on October 11.This......

M-commerce: The next big marketing opportunity

With smart data-led mobile marketing, companies can reach out to the right target consumer with relevant offers, says Dippak Khurana. The journey of a mobile device has seen an incredible growth......

Why Did Kiran Rao Struggle?

'I was very keen to make another film and I was dying to say action and cut and get back into creating characters and creating worlds.''But I just didn't have a script I was happy with.''I was......

Girls Hostel 3 Review: No Dum!

Even by standards of fluff, Girls Hostel 3 floats away without any anchor to entertainment, observes Deepa Gahlot. A new season of any series should not assume that audiences have seen the......

'Cinema has to come back to theatres'

'That will happen and we shall overcome sooner than we expect.' IMAGE: Mohanlal, movie superstar, actor extraordinaire.   Covid has affected life all over the world and that includes the......

How to Defeat Pirates who STEAL Films

Intelligent tools are being deployed to detect content pirated from OTT platforms.Neha Alawadhi reports. IMAGE: When Salman Khan's Radhe: Your Most Wanted Bhai launched on a streaming platform,......

The best footballer ever: Pele or Maradona?

It seems Diego Maradona can never stop entertaining. If it was his sublime skills on the soccer field that amazed millions worldwide during his playing days, he stills attracts a lot of attention......