Driven by kindness
Driven by kindness
Chennai autorickshaw drivers, generally a reviled lot, showed during the recent rains that they could be ...
Mythili Rajkumar
Mythili Rajkumar
mythili.rajkumar@thehindu.co.in
From literature to business, it’s been a culture shift but I am enjoying every minute of it. I survive on my sense of humour. Love Wodehouse, westerns, crime thrillers, and a good laugh with family and friends.
Walk into my parlour...
Walk into my parlour...
It’s one of those places where you go all primed to spend just what you intend to, exactly the way you want ...
Happy Birthday, Madras
Happy Birthday, Madras
Madrasa suthi pakka poren...marinavil veedu katta poren.. If you are struggling to read these Tamil words in ...
Gripe corner
Gripe corner
The other night, with an early morning train to catch the next day, I dashed into a leading retail store in T ...
Bond with the best
Bond with the best
Right at the end of GN Chetty road in Chennai, just before it meets up with Mount Road, if you were to look up ...
Sweet summer sweat
Sweet summer sweat
Mythili Rajkumar recalls a time when Chennai summers meant much more than power cuts and water shortages.
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Staying a notch ahead of the pandemic
An international network that helps vaccine-makers stay a step ahead of the virus, assessing vaccines against ...
Roadblocks to vaccination
Misinformation and the infodemic fuelled vaccine hesitancy in some countries
As the price of aviation turbine fuel soars, airlines’ finances spin out of control
With the impact of the pandemic going down to some extent, air travel for leisure has increased dramatically.
Becoming Atmanirbhar
India needs to produce its own commercial aircraft to forge ahead
There’s byte beyond FAANGs
Keen on netting some US tech stocks? There’s a flourishing ecosystem of companies beyond the biggies. Here’s ...
Index Outlook: Will Nifty 50 rebound from its 21-DMA?
Investors’ focus will be on July month auto sales numbers, RBI’s MPC meeting, rupee movement and crude oil ...
Why you should accumulate Cognizant Technology stock
Course correction provides an opportunity
Why Nippon India Value is a good investment
The fund’s top holdings have delivered healthy returns over the past one year
Rice and shine, always
The ingredient that has hung out with the mighty stegosaurus, peered at lunar craters, and played a starring ...
‘You go to meet the prime minister and all you can talk about is my bluddy swimming pool?’
When prime minister Rajiv Gandhi was lectured on free market economics, and cornered about the luxury addition ...
A quiz on defamation
On this day in 2003, English author Daniel Defoe was placed in a pillory for libel after publishing a ...
Imperilled Immunity — India’s ailing Vaccine PSUs
At one time the primary producers of the country’s vaccine requirements, the units are in terminal decline.
Beena Kannan’s new silk route from Kerala
The Seematti CEO’s new brand — launched in her own name — is weaving a new story for silk, beyond sarees
The race to become out of the world brands
Much before Branson and Bezos, brands have propelled themselves into space in a bid to captivate viewers
On the Campaign Trail
The biggest games on the planet, the Olympics, have begun. However, the mega event, being described as the ...
Touch deprived humans
The pandemic has led to “touch starvation”. Isobar, the digital agency from the house of Dentsu India, has ...
Is GST about ease of doing business?
Three years after its inception, compliance with GST procedures remains a headache for exporters, job workers ...
Channapatna sees a revival
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives of companies are altering the prospects for wooden toys of ...
Clustering around Koppal
Aequs Aerospace to create space for large-scale manufacture of toys at Koppal
Say cheese, says the organised dairy sector
And it has every reason to smile. Covid-19 has triggered a consumer shift towards branded products as ...