Writes Meenu Arora: Some people see the New Year as a chance to start afresh. Is it time to make yet another unbreakable promise to oneself?

Amazon's latest tactic of encouraging customers to compare prices at their local bookstore is hardly a surprise.

Writes Geeta Padmanabhan - With Mamata Banerjee and Jayalalitha being sworn in chief ministers, nearly 380 million or 30% of the population will be governed by women [include UP under Mayavathi and Delhi under Sheila Dikshit].

Writes Geeta Padmanabhan - The excitement is palpable. Election results in the five states that went to polls are to be announced tomorrow – Friday the thirteenth. These elections, though in just five states out of the 29, were remarkable for many reasons.

Writes Geeta Padmanabhan -If you are a retiree in India and spend your hours watching day&night TV news channels, chances are you have stopped watching feature films. In the last year alone, the skeletons that the channels have discovered in government and private cupboards and have instantly sensationalised on air ...

More than 185 people from 7 countries and 16 cities fasted for a day in Chennai's Besant Nagar beach to protest against the elevated expressways proposed in Chennai, including the Beach Expressway that is to run through all four ...

The news that a Whole Foods store might replace the Barnes & Noble bookstore in the Fremont Hub fills me with a sense of melancholy. Don’t get me wrong; having a child with allergies, I have been making the ...

why I'm voting Democrat this year [youtube 8BJfMPxQuiU] Partial transcript as follows: I REMEMBER I remember the party that blocked health care for our nation's 9-11 first responders I remember which party was in power during every single banking crisis since ...

This post is still generating a lot of interest and comments, so I am republishing it to the front page.

About this time last year I had written a somewhat critical account of the first ever Sevathon Walk/Run. What a change a year brings! The Sevathon is an annual walk/run organized by the India Community Center ...