Rediff.com's Prasanna D Zore spoke with vegetable vendors, fruit sellers, those selling clothes in shops and streets, and a retired school teacher.
Two young cyclists have embarked on a cycling tour across India with an aim to support girl child education.
A new book may help companies in getting corporate social responsibility right, notes Ajit Balakrishnan.
Almost half of that market is in India's villages.
The key proposals from the IT industry that were not addressed included removal of dual levies on software products
'I had been to a village in Haryana. One woman who had four daughters-in-law and three daughters, told me that she had to be awake the whole night to take each of them, one by one to the fields.' 'I am not saying all rapes are because of lack of toilets. 20 to 30 percent of rape cases happen because of the lack of toilets.' Dr Bindeshwar Pathak, founder, Sulabh International, on how India should go about building toilets for all its people in this exclusive interview with Shobha Warrier/Rediff.com
'I'm a fashion philanthropist, but people are wondering how she can still be doing a song in a bikini.' 'When a woman becomes a philanthropist, it is always expected that she must be like a Mother Teresa kind of a girl.' 'Why would I become like anyone else?'
'I am here to look after people's needs.' 'I am not bothered about who is a Maoist or who is not.'
In India, 173 people defecate in the open for every square km.
The greatest progress on civil rights in the United States since Abraham Lincoln was under the Southern Democrat Lyndon Johnson, the past master of wheeling and dealing in Congress.
The second fortnight of September saw Rs 3 lakh crore of time deposits, something unique, followed by liquidation of Rs 1.2 lakh crpre of these right after.
Stepping up his offensive against the Congress, he asked the party to "repent" for what it has not done in the last 60 years.
US president was unaware that the son of a manual labourer had to abandon studies
'In our film industry, there are not many opportunities for actors... Our films are not character based, they are hero and heroine based. The only roles we have for character actors are to play the girl's or boy's dad or a police officer...'
Between 2001 and 2011, the number of rural habitations with population of less than 1,000 has declined sharply
Apart from Smriti, Ravi Shankar Prasad and Ananth Kumar took over as law and parliamentary affairs ministers respectively.
'His simple lifestyle, his optimism, his hard work and his genuine humility made him an authentic role model to millions of children, many of them growing up in challenging circumstances.'
While Raju and Brijesh Saroj have found help from the Uttar Pradesh government as well as the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Zahid Qureshi is struggling to make ends meet.
Reasons include include dropping out of education, raising children and family pressure
Private investment will respond only to sustainable reform.
One needs to bring differentiation to succeed: Murthy
Onir blasts Bollywood for being regressive.
Two years into power, there is very little to show for the Modi government by way of 'achievements' on the foreign policy front, and his China, Pakistan policies are gasping for breath, says Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
M R Venkatesh, chartered accountant turned political commentator tells Shobha Warrier/Rediff.com that Modi's war is not against the opposition parties or the Congress but against the bureaucracy and the establishment.
India's billionaires are pledging a decent amount of their wealth for the welfare of society.
Household consumption recovered in urban India in May-July but remains weak in rural.
In the December quarter, Sensex earnings had contracted 5 per cent.
Over Lebanese delicacies, the daughter of billionaire Kumar Mangalam Birla talks money, relationships, her passions and how she outpaced her peers.
Siddharth Tata's Purple Chilli helps vegetable farmers earn an income 365 days a year.
Pawan Kumar, organising secretary of the Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS) affiliated to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), tells Aditi Phadnis it will join forces with other trade unions if necessary to oppose the Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) provisions in the Union Budget.
KV Kamath has had a tough journey so far.
Raam Reddy gets candid about Thithi, his film journey so far and his next project.
India scored at the recently-concluded Telluride Film Festival, reports Aseem Chhabra.
Raghav tells Rediff.com's Shobha Warrier how he and his cousin Mukund co-founded Renew IT, which refurbishes discarded computers and makes them affordable for the poor in rural India.
How would you like to have it? S Saraswathi helps us with a few recipes.
Companies from the capital goods space will under-perform.
'If I am angry, then I do not have the right to be in the Cabinet. Whatever I have done, I have ensured that farmers' interests are protected,' Rural Development Minister Chaudhary Birender Singh, who 'abstained' from a meeting with the President on the ordinance, tells Rashme Sehgal.
As the teachers began gaining confidence, it also drew the attention of other women in the community, leading to greater demand for teaching jobs.
Arun Jaitley had a tough fiscal hill to climb.
The city is becoming more democratic as the past embraces the future says Rahul Jacob.
