‘I would want to come back as an advanced being’

Sunday 23 November '08

Anousheh Ansari, an Iranian-American technology serial entrepreneur who became an inspiration for millions around the world in 2006, when she became the first female private cosmonaut.

‘God had nothing to do with it’

Sunday 16 November '08

Mukhtaran Mai was gang-raped in June 2002, as a form of honour revenge in a village in Pakistan’s rural Punjab. She became known internationally when in an unprecedented move, she decided to sue her attackers--and won.

‘The business of business is not that profound’

Sunday 9 November '08

Pramod Bhasin, President and CEO of Genpact, the largest BPO company in India, and credited to have initiated the BPO industry in India

‘Religion has become politicised’

Sunday 2 November '08

Margaret Alva is general secretary of the Congress

‘Others shouldn't decide the woman I ought to be, I should’

Sunday 26 October '08

Anu Aga is director of Pune-based engineering firm, Thermax, and is also engaged in social activities such as education for underprivileged children

Space may power Earth’s future

Sunday 19 October '08

At the World Economic Forum, our columnist met two space explorers who believe humans will soon be a multi-planet species

‘I have been seeking the meaning of life’

Sunday 19 October '08

RK Pachauri, Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He received the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for the IPCC, along with co-recipient Al Gore

‘I have felt the presence of a guiding hand’

Sunday 12 October '08

Dr. Shashi Tharoor is a diplomat, author and journalist. He was the former Under Secretary-General of the United Nations. He is now the chairman of Dubai-based Afras Ventures.

‘I don’t care much for happiness’

Sunday 5 October '08

Sudhir Kakar is a novelist and a well-known figure in the fields of cultural psychology and the psychology of religion.

The end of a gilded age

Friday 3 October '08

The entire world is watching Washington DC and Wall Street, looking for signs of what is to come next in the financial drama that has gripped the world in the last few weeks.

‘Painting is an agent for forces beyond me’

Sunday 28 September '08

Krishen Khanna is a well established contemporary artist. He has been awarded the Padamshree in 1990.

‘Dreams are like being on the Internet with God’

Sunday 21 September '08

Nafisa Ali Sodhi is an actor and social activist. She was a national swimming champion and also a former Miss India.

‘I don’t try to analyse God’

Sunday 14 September '08

Lord Swaraj Paul is an Indian-born business magnate based in the UK.

‘Where logic ends, the link with the divine begins’

Sunday 7 September '08

Ustad Amjad Ali Khan is a sarod player and composer who was awarded the Padma Vibhushan in 2001.

‘I SEE MY WORK AS SPIRITUALITY’

Sunday 31 August '08

Rajan Mittal is vice-chairman and managing director of Bharti Enterprises.

‘Life would be dreadful if we believe the mind controls all’

Sunday 24 August '08

Mark Tully is the author of several books on India, a failed priest and a journalist “made by India”

‘The artist is a creator, a miniature version of God’

Sunday 17 August '08

A. Ramachandran is one of India’s leading painters and sculptors.

‘I AM THE SECULAR AGE’S LOST CHILD’

Sunday 10 August '08

Ashis Nandy is a political psychologist and sociologist

‘THERE IS NO HAPPINESS IN BEING UNATTACHED’

Sunday 3 August '08

Keki Daruwala is a poet and a former cop.

‘I AM INCAPABLE OF HAVING SIMPLE FUN’

Sunday 27 July '08

Manpreet Singh Badal is minister of finance in the Punjab government.

'It is better not to plan the end and rather focus on what I have to do today'

Tuesday 8 July '08

Israeli-American entrepreneur Shai Agassi is Founder and CEO of Project Better Place, a company focusing on a green transportation infrastructure based on electric cars as an alternative to the current fossil fuel technology.

‘I want to be born as a better person’

Sunday 20 July '08

D.R. Kaarthikeyan is the former director of CBI. He authored Triumph of Truth: Rajiv Gandhi Assasination- The Investigation and runs the Life Positive magazine

‘One life and so much to do’

Sunday 13 July '08

Suresh Kalmadi is a Congress MP, the President of the Indian Olympic Association.

‘Even God would find it tough to live a truthful life in this world’

Sunday 6 July '08

Dr. M.S. Gill is Union sports and youth affairs minister and former Chief Election Commissioner.

‘If you are in tune, a glass or a chair will talk to you’

Sunday 29 June '08

Jatin Das has been painting for over four decades and is one of India’s prominent artists.