Writer Manjula Padmanabhan talks about her repeating cycles of sadness

There is a small hen sparrow exercising her unfledged wings on Manjula Padmanabhan's lawn.

The former RBI governor retains an appetite for governance issues on the eve of his parliamentary debut, as T N Ninan discovers

Bimal Jalan likes reading the accounts of the movers and shakers who have lunch with Business Standard, but he doesn't like what he reads.

Marc Faber, the global investment guru, reveals his passion for beer, bikes and babes to Haseeb A Drabu

If he weren't an investment advisor, he could have easily have been a movie star.

Ashok Jhunjhunwala tells Subir Roy why he first shunned business but tailors his technological visions to work in the marketplace today

Ashok Jhunjhunwala is an oddity several times over.

S Gurumurthy's world-view is heavily influenced by his rural Brahminical roots, discovers Sanjay K Pillai over a frugal meal of fruit

The 54-year-old convener of the Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM), S Gurumurthy has contacts any journalist would die for.

Once considered the grande dame of drawing room art, Anjolie Ela Menon's new-found respectability is based on the zeros people are willing to add to her price as she becomes a collectible commodity

For a granny, she's a jet setter who's chewing up more air miles than most corporate honchos do in a year.

Jean Dreze tells Aditi Phadnis why action-oriented development economics need not be a contradiction in terms

Jean Dreze began his adult life as a Belgian mathematical economist with a fine academic record who could have, if he'd chosen to, joined a rich pharma multinational or an international bank or even the Belgian bureaucracy.

When he's not modelling government behaviour into game theory, Kaushik Basu's painting sarees, even writing a play

Having lunch with a former professor is not something you normally look forward to, even though anyone who's graduated from the Delhi School of Economics will tell you Kaushik Basu was always considered really "cool", probably a combination of his boyish charm and Woody Allen looks.