Motivational speaker and bestselling author Priya Kumar has a knack of talking to people and telling them stories that inspire them to feel good about their lives even in the worst of circumstances.
You need careful planning to accumulate a corpus for your children's dreams and goals
Salil Dhawan shares his stock market wisdom as 2017 is all set to ring out.
Do you have the ability to speak up and lead by example?
The capital's ever-shifting power class remains unsettled and unnerved seeing the power, favour, nepotistic and quid pro quo pillared superstructure gradually crumble under Narendra Modi's watch -- the only mantra that seems to be taking centre stage is that of performance, implementation and delivery, says Dr Anirban Ganguly.
'ISRO provides a very positive atmosphere. What matters here is your talent, not your gender,' says Ritu Karidhal, Deputy Operations Director, India's Mars orbital mission, Mangalyaan. A fascinating excerpt from Minnie Vaid's Those Magnificent Women And Their Flying Machines, Isro's Mission To Mars.
'If you are not able to perform today, 10 years later, you won't have an excuse to explain why you didn't do it when you could.'
'I am a daughter of the mountains and my heart is free of care.'
Visual appeal or taste, what attracts you to food?
Where the most popular camel fair in the world is on...
'An elephant has to behave like an elephant and not shy away from confronting the jackals,' argues Colonel (Dr) Anil A Athale.
Rediff readers share why they support the breastfeeding campaign.
The choking of natural drainage brings monsoonal Mumbai to its knees year after year.
Wisner said during a discussion organised by Asia Society here yesterday on the Indian elections.
Maruti Warke's basic understanding illustrated how far outside the system most less privileged Indians are -- simple, innocent people barely but admirably eking out an existence, with almost no knowledge of their surroundings or owning even the basic smarts to go about life. The same people who instinctively and often astutely vote governments into and out of office in New Delhi without knowing the entire reality of this country. The folks who are actually the essence of India.
'Lots of Indians are not eating healthy.' 'They eat lot of carbs, eat late, and use sugar unnecessarily.'
Voices from the Treasury are clamouring for lowering rates as this would boost demand.
"For years I had been the cynosure of all eyes in my residential complex -- 'the lady with the full-time maid!'"
Tamal Bandyopadhyay discusses his latest book Bandhan: The Making of a Bank at Bandhan headquarters in Kolkata.
Pankhuri Gidwani took a year's break to focus on the pageant, but scored brilliantly in her CBSE Class 12 exams this year.
Elated after India's decimation of Sri Lanka in the just-concluded One-Day Internationals, stand-in skipper Virat Kohli said the biggest takeaway from the hurriedly-arranged series has been the positive and aggressive attitude that his team displayed all through.
Raju Dabhade is the creator of the game of roll ball that will see its third World Championship in December, 2015, in Pune.
'It will take a long time for the effects of demonetisation to wear away, and I am not even sure that a year lost, can at all be even recovered.'
As Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to deliver his third Independence Day speech on August 15, he is inviting ideas from citizens on issues he should speak on
'The government has belied the hope that many harboured of change, efficiency and dismantling old practices as the defence ministry continues to pursue the same well trodden and wasteful path.'
Attired in his trademark half sleeves kurta and sporting a Rajasthani turban, Prime Minister Narendra Modi devoted a bulk of his 90-minute address on the occasion of the 70th Independence Day to presenting in effect a report card of his government's work particularly in boosting economic growth, ease of doing business and welfare schemes for the poor and farmers.
Two young dhaakad designers tell us why they want to dress up the First Lady of Bollywood.
Gavin DSouza who scored 99.49 percentile in CAT 2013 tells us how he cracked the test.
Bezos wears it on his sleeve, Nadella keeps it quiet
'We need to put aside our anxieties about the Budget for now and possibly for long, and carry on as best as we can,' advises Shreekant Sambrani.
Reason must triumph over blind faith, says Praful Bidwai in this tribute to murdered rationalist Narendra Dabholkar.
Modi today needs BJP CMs and non-party regional leaders to win votes and build alliances, but he will over-rule them and treat them like dirt once they have served their electoral purpose. Make no mistake: Modi is incurably authoritarian and will brook no dissent -- so long as the RSS is on board, says Praful Bidwai.
Experts share their views on the steps that will help businesses become GST-ready.
Kalki Koechlin talks about her upcoming projects, marriage and much more!
Making it easier to do business is a key element of our strategy, says Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar.
Yash Birla, one of most prominent businessmen of India, had a lively interaction with rediff.com readers when he hosted a chat on Tuesday.
In the near term, two key factors are the outcome of the monsoon season in respect to cropping yields; and the correction in the crude oil price.
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The catalyst is the run on emerging market equities, but many investors are just tired of waiting for India to get its act together.
PM Modi seems to be gradually ending India's strategic ambiguity
'A participant in many rounds of the border talks with China once told me that China seemed not interested in resolving the border issue as it wanted to keep it as a ready excuse to intervene in the sub-continent,' says Colonel (retd) Anil A Athale.
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