‘India has done a good job in branding itself as the world’s fastest growing democracy’

Tuesday , 2 February '10

Sir Martin Sorrell is CEO of WPP, one of the world’s largest media and communications services. In an interview at Davos with The Indian Express Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta...

‘India’s security problems are graver than America’s in relation to jehadi terrorism’

Friday , 29 January '10

Pulitzer Prize winner Steve Coll, author of books such as Ghost Wars and The Bin Ladens, was South Asia bureau chief for The Washington Post between 1989 and 1992, during which he did some incisive reporting and writing about Pakistan and Afghanistan.

‘I still think it was a historic blunder. Because such an opportunity (to become PM) does not come often’

Monday , 18 January '10

Jyoti Basu, last of the long marchers in Indian politics, in an interview with The Indian Express Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta...

‘Some (cancer) treatments are offshoots of molecular biology... (It) will be very exciting’

Monday , 4 January '10

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on the structure and function of the ribosome.

‘Sometimes there is a tendency to overdo T20 cricket’

Monday , 21 December '09

In an interview with The Indian Express Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta on NDTV 24X7’s Walk the Talk, former India opener Srikkanth talks...

‘At Woodstock, who was listening to music? They were all stoned’

Monday , 14 December '09

Pandit Ravi Shankar, in the second part of an interview with The Indian Express Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta on NDTV...

‘I found out that I was the only one who could explain our music, give a comparative idea of Western and Indian music’

Monday , 7 December '09

Pandit Ravi Shankar, world-renowned sitar maestro, grew up with Western teaching and culture before making the painful transition to the austere gurukul system of learning.

‘We look at nature as part of family... only now world realises forests are important’

Monday , 30 November '09

In the run-up to Copenhagen, Meghalaya’s indigenous activists Toki Blah and his daughter Mebanda, standing in a sacred grove for a conversation with The Indian Express Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta on NDTV 24x7’s Walk the Talk, underline what their traditions have to teac...

‘There’s no question of public campaigns to choose the Chief Information Commissioner’

Monday , 9 November '09

Wajahat Habibullah, Chief Information Commissioner, feels that civil servants have nothing to fear from the Right to Information Act. In this interview with The Indian Express Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta on NDTV 24x7’s Walk the Talk, Habibullah talks about his work in upholding the R...

‘It is (Ambanis’ dispute) now at a corporate level and ought to be settled between two corporates’

Monday , 26 October '09

K V Kamath, chairman of ICICI Bank, thinks India is a land of opportunity and this is the time to choose the business of aspiration.

‘Hooper has been a great hindrance. He has been shouting... throwing keys at our staff... Can’t have him here. That is for sure’

Monday , 19 October '09

Indian Olympic Association chief and Chairman of Commonwealth Games Organising Committee Suresh Kalmadi claims that as of today the committee...

“Telomarese lies at the heart of cells’ self-renewal”

Wednesday , 7 October '09

Elizabeth Blackburn won the Nobel Prize in medicine for her discovery of Telomarese, the enzyme that replenishes the telomere (a protective structure at the end of chromosomes).

‘The US wants those caught (for Mumbai attacks) be given adequate sentences, Hafiz Saeed is prosecuted, LeT infrastructure dismantled’

Monday , 5 October '09

US Ambassador to India Timothy J Roemer feels that now that there’s plenty of evidence pertaining to the 26/11 Mumbai attack, Pakistan needs to put it together and prosecute the guilty. Defining the US-India relationship, he says the US wants to expand the relat...