December fills me with a range of emotions – from introspecting about the year gone by, its many achievements and challenges and planning for the new one, to missing my father Shri Ashok Kumar Malhotra. For it was in December that we lost him. I also promise myself once again to follow in his foot...
Entrepreneurship isn’t just about making your venture profitable. It is also about self-vindication, creating value for stakeholders, leading a change, bending rules, and surviving all odds. Here’s how four of them did it When Vijay Shekhar Sharma started Paytm in 2010, he had already left behi...
TERRORISM// A series of coordinated terrorist attacks occurred in Paris and its northern suburb, Saint-Denis, on the night of November 13, 2015. Gunmen attacked a number of restaurants, two suicide bombers and a bomb detonated near the Stade de France, and gunmen wearing suicide belts killed 89 at t...
POLITICS// India’s neighbour Myanmar will soon have a new leader in the form of Aung San Suu Kyi, whose political party has won the recent elections in that country. For the first time in 50 years, the Burmese people will have a fairly elected person as their leader. For a long time, Myanmar has ...
CALAMITY// Incessant rain continued to batter parts of Tamil Nadu, and Chennai literally went under water during mid-November. It is the season of the north-east monsoon, which brings rain to southern state, but the amount of rainfall the city has seen over the past few weeks is extraordinary. Thing...
ELECTIONS// Nitish Kumar will continue to be the chief minister of Bihar for another five years after the political group that he led won the recent state elections. The election also saw a bitter defeat for the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who lost to Nitish Kumar. This election saw the h...
Modi ranked world’s ninth most-powerful person
RANKING// Moving up six spots, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, ranked ninth, has for the first time made it to the top 10 in Forbes’ seventh annual list of “The World’s Most Powerful People”. Russian President Vladimir Putin takes the top spot out of 73, for the third year in a row,...
CSK, RR OUT, TWO NEW TEAMS FOR IPL 2016
IPL// Come the summer of 2016, and the familiar sunny yellow of the Chennai Super Kings (CSK) and royal blue of the Rajasthan Royals (RR) will no longer take the field (play) in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2016. That’s because the two teams have been banned as their owners placed bets on the r...
PETER MUKERJEA ARRESTED IN SHEENA BORA MURDER CASE
CRIME// The grisly high-society murder case that has gripped India took an unexpected twist recently as a British-born media tycoon appeared in a Mumbai court over the killing of his stepdaughter. He was later arrested by the CBI in connection with the probe into the 2012 murder of Sheena Bora. He h...
Sometimes you have to travel long distances to find your roots WHEN THIS KIND magazine contacted me for a column on Indians living abroad, little did they know that they would be chasing the proverbial nightmare. Being from the same community as them (the journalist brigade that is) I know exactly...
Here’s one for the adventure-crazy
It’s made for those who jump, dive, sprint and scream in equal measure. What’s an adventure if it doesn’t set your adrenaline rushing? IF YOU can spare around Rs 50,000 to spend on some exciting new piece of tech, what will you go for? My money is on mobile phones, a premium wireless speaker ...
Modi's Challenge: Reshaping Indo-Russian defence ties INDIA’S TIES with Russia has been a time-tested one for over six decades, founded on rock-solid grounds of mutual dependence, strategic cooperation and support for technological advancement. But that unrelenting friendship is suddenly seeing s...
Retrospective tax: The spectre continues to haunt The Union Budget in 2012 presented by the then Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee was a watershed moment in the history of Indian tax. The Indian government, after facing defeat at the Supreme Court in a tax dispute with Vodafone, decided to change t...
The words “thank you” may sound simple but are filled with positive energy, and mark the beginning of the change we all desire The dictionary meaning of the word “gratitude” is the act of being thankful, or readiness to show appreciation. In a deeper sense, it has a much wider connotation. ...
Vijender Singh: Mercenary or chaser of dreams?
As any life lessons guru will tell you, you do what you can to chase your dreams; if naysayers must do what they exist to do, ignore them Some day, once the dust has settled and petty politics and pettier grievances have been stuffed where they belong, Vijender Singh will be given his due. That gra...
K L SRIVASTAVA// In the #BattlegroundBihar, the Mahagathbandhan had a decisive 168 seats vis-a-vis NDA’s 58. The breakup within the ahagathbandhan was Lalu’s 80 seats and Nitish’s JD(U) 71. This equation, by any political logic, makes Lalu the kingmaker. However, the political and social reali...
Sustainable Green Initiative is an example of how a simple idea, when translated with passion and hard-work into an endeavour for the larger good of the society, can yield positive results What good can come from planting trees, you would think. Global warming, pollution and the toxic air we breath...
Malhotra, a self-trained designer, has traversed a long way from modeling for pocket money while studying at Elphinstone College in Mumbai People of a certain generation remember Urmila Matondkar scorching the screen with her Tanha Tanha act in Rangeela. And within a year there was Karishma Kapoor,...
THE MEMORIES OF THIS BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY WITH ITS CULTURE, TRADITION, AND DISTURBING PAST WILL LIVE WITH YOU FOR A LONG TIME Most good travel stories begin with delicious food and drinks. Mine started with prawns, fish and snake wine in Hanoi. Yes, the Vietnamese enjoy a dead snake or scorpion inside...
Vidya Deshpande traces the rise of Café King Riyaaz Amlani, the man behind Mocha, Social, Smoke House Deli and more Social is going to be bigger than Starbucks. A tall claim, you say? Not if you are Riyaaz Amlani, CEO and Managing Director of Impresario Entertainment and Hospitality. He makes this...