Kaleem Kawaja AHMAD ZAIDI, who is originally from Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, and is a 1985 Electrical Engineering graduate from the Thapar Institute of Technology, Karnal, Haryana, epitomizes a brilliant success story in United States. Zaidi is currently a vice-President at ...
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New Delhi : Search engine giant Google on Tuesday celebrated the birth anniversary of Sake Dean Mahomed who was the first Indian author to publish a book in English and later, to open an Indian restaurant in Britain. Born in ...
Read More »In Assam’s villages, a low-cost, DIY technology is battling contaminated water
By Azera Parveen Rahman, Guwahati : In a village called Aam-bagan in Nagaon district of Assam, Sumitra Biswas summoned her grandson to help her pour water into the filter kept in the courtyard of their house. The filter — three ...
Read More »LinkedIn hires Mahesh Narayanan as Country Manager for India
New Delhi : Microsoft-owned professional networking platform LinkedIn on Thursday announced the appointment of Mahesh Narayanan as Country Manager for India. Narayanan will assume his new responsibilities from January 7, 2019, said LinkedIn which has over 590 million members globally ...
Read More »Rejections shattered, strengthened and streamlined my writing: Sahitya Akademi winner Anees Salim
By Saket Suman, New Delhi : Still recovering from the surprise of being named as the winner of the prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award (English) for his novel “The Blind Lady’s Descendants” — a long suicide note of a 26-year-old — ...
Read More »I end up withholding much more than telling: Writer S. Hussain Zaidi
By Radhika Bhirani, New Delhi : Between exploring the complex labyrinth of India’s criminal underbelly and narrating it to curious readers through his gritty books on dons and mafia queens, there’s a lot that writer S. Hussain Zaidi still ends ...
Read More »Mushirul Hasan: Man with a mission and a vision (Obituary)
By Firoz Bakht Ahmed, Tears welled up my eyes, when I was told by my friend, Mohammed Wajihuddin, an eminent columnist, that not a single wreath or even a flower, was laid at the grave of Prof Mushirul Hasan by ...
Read More »Alyque Padamsee was a creator of superbrands and superconsumers – and a theatre personality
By Quaid Najmi, Mumbai : Alyque J. Padamsee, lent glamour to common products and brought luxury products within the reach of the common masses with his catchy and memorable advertising campaigns. Considered the Father of Indian Advertising, Padamsee also excelled ...
Read More »Chef Ranveer Brar romances railways with ‘Station Master’s Tiffin’
By Vishnu Makhijani, New Delhi : Time was when many trains on the Indian Railways network featured dining cars where you could savour a leisurely meal of your choice as the landscape rolled by. Today, you are served at your ...
Read More »Babar Ali’s inspiring story: How a nine-year-old’s zeal brought education to Bengal’s poor
By Bhavana Akella, Murshidabad (West Bengal) : Walking home from school in a small town in West Bengal, a nine-year-old boy saw some of his friends work as rag-pickers. The thought that his companions were unable to study like him ...
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