'The country must learn to sacrifice some rights to fight terror. While fighting terror, you cannot have the same freedom,' says intelligence specialist Colonel R Hariharan (retd).
C K Ranganathan, chairman and managing director of Cavincare, talks about the current global economic crisis
The actress is enjoying her stint in Tamil cinema.
'This is about children caring for their parents and helping them with assistance.'
Son of veteran Tamil actor Sathyaraj, Sibiraj talks about his first negative role.
World champion Viswanathan Anand, who turned 40 on December 11, looks back on the year gone by and his upcoming World Championship match with Veselin Topolov.
Being disabled does not mean the end of the world. Shobha Warrier narrates G J Siddharth's inspiring story.
Newcomer Babusivan talks about directing the much awaited Tamil film starring popular actor Vijay.
It's been a long wait for the Tamil actor who is now ready with two films.
A car that only costs Rs 25,000 to produce and also doubles up as a two-wheeler.
'The finance minister said, the MSME is the backbone of the economy. My question is, what have you done for the sector?'
'One of the advantages is that students need not take many entrance examinations.'
As A R Rahman received his Oscars at the 81st Annual Academy Awards, everyone back home was cheering -- including his older sister Reihana, who is the mother of budding music composer G V Prakash. She talks to Shobha Warrier about the excitement at home.
'This setback is only transient, and this too shall pass.'
Director Radhamohan talks about his beautiful film, out this Friday.
Ganesh Chella, co-founder of Totus Consulting Services, talks about what young professionals should do to tide over the tough economic times ahead.
The Tamil actor is all ready to shed his romantic image with his latest film Modhi Vilayadu.
G Anantha Narayanan on why he chose a pick pocket as the protagonist of his first film Valmiki.
Everybody would like the Sri Lankan Tamils to live in peace first and with equal right to the Sinhalese. Even I, a vehement critic of the LTTE and also very much against the Centre intervening the military action against the LTTE, have been saying that the Indo-Sri Lankan accord must be implemented in full by Sri Lanka, says political analyst Cho Ramaswamy.
Sateesh Andra, co-convenor, Tie-ISB, talks to Shobha Warrier about growth, entrepreneurship and the need to look at new business directions.
Tamil Nationalist Movement leader, one of the most vocal supporters of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and its supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran, speaks on the civil war raging in Sri Lanka.
The Vice Chancellor of Anna University, Coimbatore, Dr R Radhakrishnan made history by announcing that his university would provide free engineering education to brilliant economically poor students who cannot afford engineering education. An interview.
'Such a struggle at Kalakshetra is unprecedented.'
'India's manufacturing will take 10-15 years to catch up with China.'
A R Rahman's double Oscar win has his family back home ecstatic. His nephew -- 21-year-old budding music composer G V Prakash, son of Rahman's older sister, Reihana -- has obviously taken after his famous uncle.
'We continue to believe that the global economy will narrowly avoid a recession, despite expecting the US, Canada, and most of Europe to fall into recession at some point over the next year or so.'
Son of a police inspector father and a music teacher mother, Pradeep Kumar talks about how tough it is to get a foothold in the Carnatic music scene without a name to back.
'A delay of two years has happened, but stretching it to 2024 is a bit too far.' 'And we do not know about 2024 also.'
'A change we have seen after the Russia-Ukraine war is the energy crisis in Europe.' 'Earlier, in Europe, people used to change their clothes after 5 washes, now they are using it till 15-20 washes.' 'They used to change their entire wardrobe after 2 months or so, but because of the economic conditions, it has changed.' 'It has affected exports as 40% of our exports is to Europe, 30% to the US and 10% to the UK.' 'The war has to end for better days to come.'
Actress Nandita Das talks about her choice of films and life in general, in this interview with Shobha Warrier.
Director Rajeev Nath is sure his next film will create controversy.
Indian IT professionals are second to none in terms of hard work, desire to learn, and intelligence
'RBI is already late in addressing inflation pressures.'
'We need not worry about the market. If we do the right things, the market will come around,' says economist Raja Chelliah.
'It encourages a shadow industry, the coaching industry.' 'Only those students who have the resources to go for coaching, benefit.'
'India's output contraction in the previous year was among the worst in the world!'
S Somasegar, corporate VP, Microsoft, speaks about Vista and other products that the team at IDC, Hyderabad are working on.
