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'The past has a knack of exploding in our faces'

'People beat their chests when the Babri Masjid was brought down, not realising that it was just one event in a chain going back centuries; to look at the last link or two in isolation is absurd.'......

50 years later: The City of Dawn thrives

Auroville just turned 50.Aurovilians who grew up in the experimental city speak of how their childhood was marked by a sense of openness and possibility.Nikita Puri reports from the City of Dawn.......

'May Auroville serve as a beacon to the world'

'May it be the guardian which calls for breaking down narrow walls of the mind.''May it continue to invite everyone to celebrate the possibilities of humanity's one-ness.'Claude Arpi salutes 50......

Compare 48-year rule of one family with NDA's 48 months: Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday lashed out at the Congress saying that one family had ruled the country for over four decades and asked the people to compare the dynasty-led governments......

Delhi, the No-No capital

Delhi is a year-round health hazard that visitors shun like the plague, says Sunil Sethi. IMAGE: India Gate, obscured by Delhi's smog. Photograph: Manvender Vashist/PTI Photo A frequent......

How Ashok Leyland plans to reinvent itself

More than just a legacy brand in commercial vehicles, Ashok Leyland wants to be seen as an old brand embracing new values. How does an old brand reinvent itself for new age customers and......

The extraordinary story of Radha Daga and Triguni Food

'One’s dreams never end. If you don’t dream, you don’t exist. You need to dream to look forward to in life.' Radha Daga, who went from a textile exporter to food entrepreneur at......

'For many years, it upset me that I was a businessman'

'I wondered what mistakes I made in my life to be a businessman. Deep down, I still have doubts about it.' Shobha Warrier meets the amazing Dilip Kapur who built a Rs 160 crore business with just......

'I wish to recreate an India of self-employers'

In December, some 400 youngsters aged 15 to 18 years boarded a train for the Tata Jagriti Yatra (TJY), a 9,000-km, 16-state journey of 18 days from December 24, 2010 to January 11, 2011, starting......

From Rs 25,000 to Rs 100-crore! The Hidesign story

Sixty-one-year-old Dilip Kapur, founder-president of Hidesign, an international brand, started designing leather bags as a hobby. Soon he converted that hobby into tradecraft. Today, his business......

Parineeti, Anushka, Deepika: Where were our stars born?

Take a look! Photograph: Courtesy India International Jewellery Week Parineeti Chopra may not be working on a film at the moment but the Kill Dill actress sure knows how to keep herself......

Kalki Koechlin: The perfect Lolita

Vladmir Nabokov would certainly approve -- she's the perfect Lolita. A wide-eyed ingenue' with bee stung lips and sex appeal oozing from every pore. Oh yes, Kalki Koechlin is every red-blooded......

'I don't think I look like Rani'

Did I sound stupid?' Ayesha Kapur asks at the end of the interview. The 10 year old has just made her acting debut in Sanjay Leela Bhansali's film, Black, starring Amitabh Bachchan and Rani......

Inspiring! This Marathoner wants you to break free

Partially paralysed, but with unbreakable will power and determination, Nihad Panju beat the odds to run his 4th Mumbai Marathon on Sunday.The 26 year old tells Rediff.com's Norma Godinho he wants......

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