'Ratan Made You Feel Special'

'He had a lovely, lovely, sense of humour, very subdued and very, very subtle, but it was very, very, prominent.' All photographs: Kind courtesy Ratan Tata/Instagram.com   Halekai or Home By......

'India Has Changed So Much'

'I don't feel like going back to India, to the old Delhi that I grew up in. Because the place doesn't exist anymore.' Illustrations: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com   Still a foreigner in her......

'I Don't Know What I Am Going To Do'

The political heat in West Bengal has been giving the rising mercury levels serious competition since the high court order. IMAGE: Upper Primary (2016) job aspirants protest in Kolkata on......

'General Zia was real startled'

'But he was very quick and did a very stylish adab.''Of course, I didn't expect him to hug.' IMAGE: Lakshmi Murdeshwar Puri and her husband Hardeep Singh Puri, currently India's minister of......

Cryptos akin to 'a world of Caribbean pirates' in absence of regulation: CEA

Chief Economic Adviser V Anantha Nageswaran on Thursday said cryptocurrencies are akin to 'a world of Caribbean pirates' in the absence of a centralised regulatory authority and are yet to pass the......

Business Families and their UGLY succession battles

The world is full of family businesses that withered away with the passing of generations, creating much bitterness and ill will.Entire clans that used to be household names have become pale......

The Strange Death Of India's Pen King

If there is a morality tale here, it is that debt and death spare no king. IMAGE: Vikram Kothari. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com Vikram Kothari had two coronations, first as the Gutkha......

The incredible story of Lijjat Papad!

Everyone enjoys 'rags to riches' stories and everyone likes tales of stupendous success achieved through sheer determination. The story of Shri Mahila Griha Udyog Lijjat Papad is all that and much......

10 Times Couples Faced Pyaar Vs Parivaar

Ajay Devgn and Rakul Preet Singh take their love story to the next level in De De Pyaar De 2, and this time, it's all about winning over her stubborn family. They are not the only Bollywood jodi......

Pather Panchali@70: Beautiful, Broken People

Seventy years after Pather Panchali released on August 26, 1955, we finally get it.Shuttling between the village of Boral and a studio in Calcutta, caught between worrying about the next purse of......

'Women Want To Remain Invisible'

'It is, in a way, my mother's story.' Photograph: Kind courtesy Sanya Malhotra/Instagram Like many of us, Arati Kadav first saw Jeo Baby's critically acclaimed Malayalam film The Great Indian......

The Most Memorable Goodbye Turns 50

'Garm Hava understands that the scorching, hate-filled, doubt-filled affair between Hindus and Muslims is our national love affair.' Sreehari Nair revisits M S Sathyu's classic film, featuring the......

When Irrfan made Paan Singh Tomar a household name

The fascinating story of this man was one of the most searched topics on Google after the trailer was launched with Irrfan's Tomar, his gaze fixed at a journalist interviewing him, mouthing that......