The Incomparable Ved Mehta

On a visit to India in 2013, writer Ved Mehta -- who passed into the ages on Sunday January 10, 2021 -- gave Rediff.com's Vaihayasi Pande Daniel a rare glimpse into his state of mind and what he......

9/11: 'Love leaves a memory no one can steal'

After Joseph Mathai's death in the 9/11 attacks his wife Teresa found solace in doing service in his memory. Arthur J Pais reports The World Trade Center had a special connection with Joseph......

Obama appoints Jhumpa Lahiri to his arts committee

Indian-American Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri has been appointed as a member of US President Barack Obama's Committee on the Arts and Humanities, along with five others. 'I am proud......

Pax Indica and a multipolar world

The images of an America struggling to assert its will in Iraq have startled many observers. Here is a country devastated by a decade-long embargo; its paramount ruler has been hunted down in a......

India Inc hails Modi victory, looks for bold reforms

Hailing the clear mandate given by voters to the BJP-led NDA, leading lights of corporate India hoped incoming government would boost economic growth and create jobs to herald a "golden era of......

The 'Ford' test of CEO success

Few people are likely to take issue with last week's ranking in business magazine Conde Nast Portfolio of the world's worst-ever CEOs. Lehman Brothers' Dick Fuld, Enron's Ken Lay and even......

India's experiments with inflation

American economist Alan Blinder once said: "Price stability is when ordinary people stop talking and worrying about inflation." With inflationary pressures predicted to stay in India this year, the......

Want to succeed? Be aggressive!

'Mr Outside,' Charles E Phillips, Jr, in charge of Oracle Corporation's external operations always devises a plan before playing to win. A strategist by choice, he transforms aggression into an......