India's New Trilemma

...Kids, jobs, emigration, notes Ajit Balakrishnan. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com   "Aren't you kids going to have children?" I asked one of my nieces who had come for a one-week......

When Sudha, Narayana Murthy Broke Up

After agonizing over this for weeks, he made a decision.When they met after work one evening, he startled her by blurting out, 'I think we should break up.' A moving excerpt from Chitra Banerjee......

The A-W Of Desi Guests At the White House Dinner

The dinner Jill Biden and her husband US President Joe Biden hosted for Prime Minister Narendra D Modi, June 22, at the White House brought together, Indians and Americans from so many firmaments,......

Look, how that beard has grown!

In these lockdown times, we are all confined to our homes. Many men, we know, avoid Zoom calls because they haven't had a hair cut or trimmed their beards in the four months they have been locked......

'Where Your Data Resides Is Now A Fundamental Question'

'What we see now is a much stronger need for data sovereignty.' Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff   Hans Dekkers, general manager, IBM Asia Pacific, was recently in India to announce collaboration......

Why Birla finds US an attractive investment destination

The United States offers an "abundance" of stability and transparency, which makes the world's largest economy an attractive investment destination for the Aditya Birla Group, a top official from......

IBM laptops for Rs 49,990 now

IBM India on Monday announced the availability of its entry level, notebook, the IBM ThinkPad R40e priced at Rs 49,990.Targeting the small and medium businesses and the home segment, the IBM......

'India is a very important market for IBM'

While Indian information technology companies are looking at the US and Europe for acquisitions, IT giant IBM is gearing up a mergers and acquisitions strategy in growing markets like India, China,......

Serve-and-volley a lost art as grass loses its menace

So are the days gone when grasscourt tennis was truly a different ball game? Are the likes of Spain's Feliciano Lopez, Croatian Ivo Karlovic, Luxembourg's Gilles Muller and Germany's Mischa Zverev,......

Serve and volley: Back to the future as moribund tactic is revived

Stefan Edberg of Sweden makes a backhand volley. Photograph: Simon Bruty/Getty Images The yellowing obituaries are looking premature as serve-and-volley tennis creeps, with a few tweaks, towards a......