Nikhil Lakshman remembers the times he spent with the legendary writer who passed into the ages six days before his 86th birthday. IMAGE: Sir V S Naipaul gives the Nobel lecture at the Old Stock......
It is a dark legacy bequeathed by Nehru to India. In its DNA lies the subconscious fount of India's schizophrenic geopolitics that forsook in one sweep all its historically-entrenched strategic......
Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray on Wednesday asked all the institutions in the city with the name Bombay as prefix to change it to Mumbai, failing which the party would target them. 'If the......
United States Ambassador David Campbell Mulford came to India in early 2004, a time when India-US relations were undergoing a dramatic shift, and saw Indian democracy in action in the general......
Altogether 1088 bandh supporters, including seven Trinamool Congress legislators, were arrested on Monday for disrupting rail and road traffic while enforcing a 12-hour West Bengal bandh, which......
Vindhya Telelinks, Universal Cables and Birla Cable shareholders go against family’s wishes. IMAGE: Harsh Vardhan Lodha. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com. The Birla camp failed to......
While Nifty 50 reflects changes in 40 years, it also shows what is missing: Low-cost manufacturers at one end, and deep-value players at the other.Also missing are technology players, observes T N......
'Leaders of the Indian community in Hong Kong had broached the idea of developing the Andaman and Nicobar islands for investment and setting up manufacturing units,' points out Rup Narayan Das.......
The man who ran Mohan Meakin for over four decades was a teetotaller, discovers N Sundaresha Subramanian. IMAGE: Kapil Mohan, chairman, Mohan Meakin, the maker of Old Monk rum, passed away on......
'He was sought after because he delivered.'Ishita Ayan Dutt profiles Tata Steel's new boss.Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com T V Narendran, the newly appointed global CEO & MD of Tata Steel,......