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Fab fifty!

John Bissell's Fabindia celebrates 50 elegant years. His wife, Bim, recalls the special moments.

In public view

Besides big sales, the third edition of India Art Summit in Delhi drew record numbers of the aam admi, far removed from the champagne circuit.

Alone with the mental demons?

Family support makes all the difference for women battling mental illness.

ICAI to frame charges against Satyam's ex-CFO

Perfect frame

Heavy duty stuff!

Exclusif carpets

Luxury furniture

Longines comes to Chennai

‘Pure’ and perfect

Luscious lychee

Shoddy reference

Takeaways from an RTI experience

A case where request for info on some Budget 2007 notings was rejected by the CBDT, but made available by the Central Information Commission, the Seco

Transnational professional development

Securitisation vs factoring

Farmhouses, or tax havens?

Sadly, the Direct Taxes Code has chosen to let agriculture be used as an alibi for tax evasion and farmhouses for everything else but farming.

Tax law as M&A facilitator

Curbing asthma attack

Lights, camera… Press!

Hindi films love to take the occasional swipe at journos... but few get it right.

Thunder eggs and Inca Rose

Salt march at Rann

Creative date with India Inc

Arty, witty, pretty… print calendars from corporate houses hold their own with panache in the digital times of iPad and mobile phones.

New norms for service cos' reporting

Pak women battle for political space

Many bravely oppose the death penalty under Pakistan's blasphemy law.

Beer in my brunch!

Carlsberg persuades chefs and gourmets to try some beer flavoured foods on lazy Sunday mornings.

Developing personal competencies

A craft wrongly targeted

Kashmir's gun-makers, famed for their intricate workmanship, find their industry caught in the crossfire in the militancy-embattled Valley.

Who's afraid of 50?

These women's fear of turning 50 seems to belong to an era long past.

Poetry in motion picture, by Georgia!

After two decades of inertia, Georgian film industry attempts to recreate the magic of its Soviet-era films. And, woos Indian filmmakers with tax sops

Returned with no thanks?

Microcredit earns political wrath in the developing world in a sharp reversal from the praise and goodwill showered on it in the past decade.

History in carved niches

Champaner Pavagarh is a World Heritage site tucked away in a pretty recess of Gujarat.

Oil slippages

Payments under the I-T Act

Taxes can be paid either pre- or post-assessment.

Shiso San

A vodka cocktail recipe for that night-long bash

The Hennessy Ginger

A cocktail recipe for your next party

Article List: Wines & Malts

Tourism marketing: A new pitch from God’s Own Country

Kerala’s tourism revival package has new products and a unique positioning with an eye on the post-pandemic domestic traveller

‘Arbitrability’ in times of fast emerging techno-centric businesses in India

The Supreme Court has presented what is called a “four-fold” test to determine the question of arbitrability of the subject matter

India spotlights green shipping

Guidelines for incorporation of green initiatives across ports are in the works

Four biases to avoid in today’s market conditions

Being aware of your biases will help you become a better investor. Here’s how.

Index Outlook: How far can Sensex and Nifty 50 fall?

The sell-off intensifies in the indices outlook is bearish and any bounce from current levels will be short-lived

Bullion Cues: Is gold and silver losing sheen?

Further decline in futures likely

Auroville: An utopian search for a better world

Akash Kapur’s ‘Better to Have Gone’ traces what happens when we believe deeply in a quest and give up everything in its pursuit

Lady doctors and the rocky path to healing

A handbook on India’s first women doctors holds up a mirror to the social and political realities of the 19th and early 20th century

Conquering Everest: A compelling account of how an impossible dream was achieved

Jim Davidson dwells in detail on the failure to make it in the first attempt and the harrowing return to physically and emotionally draining climb up