'I fell in love with Suraiya and that was my first real gafla. The more I couldn't get her, the more I wanted her. When I couldn't marry her because the world didn't want it, I cried for the first time.'
Most actors usually face obscurity after a fade-out from the limelight.
Dinesh Raheja tips his hat to his favourite Raj Kapoor movie, as we continue celebrating the legend's birth centenary.
If you have watched the matches closely enough, it's difficult to miss the white-on-red logos of Mahindra Satyam in the soccer stadia across South Africa.
Acting as external auditor to World Health Organisation, CAG flagged a number of risks associated with the execution of the Global Management System project, where Satyam happens to be the key contractor. The $55.5 million project was initially targeted to go live in September 2007, but was given its first extension until December 2007, then a second until March 2008 and a third until June 2008, the auditor said.
The latest whistle-blower revelations of multiple shenanigans at global ride-hailing app Uber, coming thick and fast after serial exposes of various dodgy practices at Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google in the recent past raises uncomfortable questions about India Inc. If the FAANGs, Twitter and Uber can be guilty of multiple and diverse transgressions what's happening in Indian corporations? It can be nobody's case that India's largely family-owned and - managed private sector is a beacon of transparency or best corporate governance practices, bolstered as it is by an informal omerta among employees, managements and even boards.
After taking over scam-hit Satyam, Techn Mahindra has made many structural changes in the latter to turn it around.
Auditors seem to have developed a heightened sense of risk and are not content to tick the boxes and sign the papers.
Sukanya Verma looks at how one of the seven primal human emotions is usually treated in Hindi movies.
'I regret the years that I did not work. I took a break at the peak of my career. I should not have done that. You lose contact with people and to start all over again is a struggle.' Rajnigandha actress Vidya Sinha looks back at her life.
What if these old classics were made in today's times? Sukanya Verma figures it out.
'In a country like India where entrepreneurship is not common except in commercial or merchandise families, the situation is different today.'
His career as a bureaucrat has been somewhat colourless, which suggests his current elevation is simply a matter of being at the right place at the right time.
Nine months have passed since the country's largest financial scandal hit Satyam Computers, after its promoter Ramalinga Raju confessed to a fraud that its auditors had failed to detect.
Just how much do *you* know about Lataji?
'Family businesses have to put competent people in charge who believe they can get to the top.'
'If you don't remove the glass ceiling, you won't get the best talent.'
Subhash K Jha looks back at 2020, and lists the films that left him underwhelmed.
'I kept thinking the bedroom door would open any minute and Didi Atya would step out...'
The Securities and Exchange Board of India is all set to begin the proposed peer audit review of the companies that form the Sensex and Nifty benchmark indices.
The hits and misses of the week.
'He personified the kind of debonair charm, sublime sensuality and unabashed romance women fantasise about,' says Sukanya Verma.
The board will first need to unpack IL&FS - it has 169 group companies with 24 direct subsidiaries, 135 indirect subsidiaries, six joint ventures and four associate companies, says Amit Tondon.
'We will never really lose him because in death, his spirit, trapped in a frail body, has been set free and will surround us like the air we breathe.'
Telugu actor Sumanth feels his Vicky Donor remake -- named Naruda Donoruda -- is just what his career needs.
Parekh ensures that he never forgets the importance of correctness.
The film faces opposition from fringe Rajput groups, who allege that it distorts history and show Queen Padmavati in "poor light".
If banks won't lend, seek a loan from fintech lenders or P2P platforms to help you get out of a debt trap.
The plan of UID/Aadhaar-based surveillance does not end with the collection of fingerprints and iris scan, it goes quite beyond it and poses a lethal threat to the idea of India, says Gopal Krishna.
Natraj Behera scored his second century of the match as Odisha rallied to earn a draw after being forced to follow on against Mumbai, on the fourth and final day of their Group A Ranji Trophy match, in Mumbai.
Director Anil Sharma gives us an insight into the Deol men, and other Bollywood Greats.
Left-arm spinner Vishal Dabholkar shone with a four-wicket haul as Mumbai demolished Punjab by 180 runs to register their second successive win in the Ranji Trophy in Chandigarh.
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