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                                                                     EXHIBIT 3.2

                            THE COMPANIES ACT, 1956

                           A COMPANY LIMITED BY SHARES

                            MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION

                                       OF

                            REDIFF.COM INDIA LIMITED



I.      The name of the Company is REDIFF.COM INDIA LIMITED. (@)

II.     The Registered Office of the Company will be situated in the State of
        Maharashtra.

III.    The Main Objects of the Company is established are:



        A.      THE MAIN OBJECTS WHICH THE COMPANY WILL PURSUE ON ITS
                INCORPORATION ARE:

                1.      To carry on and undertake the business of providing on
                        line information services in various languages via
                        electronic and other forms of communication for local
                        and other subscribers in India and abroad and to deal in
                        all materials connected therewith. (@)

        B.      OBJECTS INCIDENTAL OR ANCILLARY TO ATTAINMENT OF THE MAIN
                OBJECTS:

                1.      To deal in export, import, buy, sell and or otherwise
                        deal, manufacture, develop in or carry on business in
                        raw materials, semi finished material or finished
                        material, software, used or useful in connection with
                        publication of Electronic Data/Computer
                        Floppies/disks/cassettes and printing of books,
                        newspaper, journal, magazines, periodicals, directories
                        souvenirs, year books, etc.

                2.      To carry on and undertake the business of publishers of
                        dailies, weeklies, fortnightly, newspapers, periodicals,
                        journals, magazines, directories, souvenirs, year books
                        and other literary works in the Electronic and other
                        forms in any language and on any subject and marketing
                        including exports markets sell/distribute such published
                        items to subscribers in India & abroad.

                3.      To work as Consultants on Marketing, Advertising and
                        Publicity and Sales Promotion and undertake such work on
                        behalf of Companies, Corporations, Local Authorities,
                        Government or any other Customers.

                4.      To undertake all type of work in the area of Public
                        Relations, Press Relations and Editorial Publicity.

                5.      To plan and carry out training and Educational
                        Programmes within the areas of Advertising Publicity,
                        Marketing, Mass Communications and the applied Arts.

                6.      To organise Meetings and classes, Conferences and
                        competitions to ascertain the popularity of the products
                        on their own or on their own or on behalf of the
                        customers, to organise door-to-door publicity and train
                        personnel for the same.



                (@) Amended vide Resolution passed at the Annual General Meeting
                held on 13th August 1999

                7.      To assist customers in their Sales Promotion, Market
                        Research Programmes, Recruitment of personnel furnishing
                        with advertisement



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                        and Publicity layouts, write-ups and other materials
                        necessary for effective Sales Promotion.

                8.      Generally to carry on business as Advertisers,
                        Publishers, Canvassers etc. and to undertake all such
                        work which falls within the purview of modern methods of
                        advertising publicity propaganda, mass communication,
                        marketing including exports market and the applied Arts.

                9.      To employ Artists, Authors, Photographers and other
                        personnel required for the efficiently carrying out the
                        objects of the Company and to remunerate them from time
                        to time, to enter into Agreements with them laying down
                        the terms and conditions of employment, remuneration,
                        etc. etc.

                10.     To receive money on deposit, merely for the purpose of
                        financing the Company's business on interest or
                        otherwise and to lend and advance money and give credit
                        to such persons and on such terms as may seem expedient
                        and in particular to customers and others having dealing
                        with the Company and to guarantee the payment of money
                        or the performance of any obligation or contract.

                11.     To lend money with or without security to such
                        companies, firms or persons, and on such terms as may
                        seem expedient and in particular to customers of and
                        others having dealings with the Company and to guarantee
                        the performance of contracts by any persons, firms or
                        companies. Provided that the Company shall not carry on
                        the Banking business as defined under the Banking
                        Companies Act.

                12.     To borrow or raise or secure the payment of money in
                        such manner as the company shall think fit and in
                        particular by the issue of debentures or debenture
                        stock, perpetual or otherwise, charged upon all or any
                        of the company's property (both present and future),
                        including its uncalled capital and to purchase, or
                        redeem, any such securities.

                13.     To guarantee the payment or repayment of any money or
                        performances of any contracts or obligations by any
                        person, firm or company, including such companies which
                        are or may come under the management or control of the
                        Company, and also to give guarantee in respect of any
                        financial arrangement that may be made by or on behalf
                        of such Company and if thought fit to secure or support
                        such guarantee by mortgage, pledge or hypothecation of
                        any properties of the Company or to mortgage, pledge or
                        hypothecate any properties of the Company as security
                        for any advance to be made to, or any debits or
                        obligations of any person, firm or company.

                14.     To draw, make, accept, endorse, discount, execute and
                        issue promissory Notes, Bills of Exchange, Bills of
                        Lading, Warrants, Debentures and other negotiable or
                        transferable instruments.

                15.     To invest or otherwise deal with the funds Company and
                        from time to time to vary or realise such investments.

                16.     To remunerate the servants of the Company and others out
                        of and in proportion to the profits of the Company or
                        otherwise as the Company may think fit.

                17.     To remunerate any person or company for services
                        rendered or to be rendered in acting as trustees for
                        debentures or debenture stock holders or placing or
                        assisting to place or guarantee the placing of any of
                        the shares in the Company's capital, or any debentures,
                        debenture stock or other securities of the Company in or
                        about the formation or promotion of the Company or the
                        conduct of its business or for guaranteeing payment of
                        such debentures or debenture stock and interest.

                18.     To appoint attorneys and agents whether by commission or
                        otherwise and constitute agencies and sub-agencies of
                        the Company in India or elsewhere.



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                19.     To allot shares in this Company to be considered as
                        fully or partly paid up in payment for any property of
                        whatever description which the Company may acquire or in
                        exchange of services rendered or technical know-how or
                        goodwill.

                20.     To adopt such means of making known to the public the
                        business of the Company as may seem expedient and in
                        particular by advertising in the press, by circulars and
                        by publication of books and periodicals.

                21.     To apply for and to acquire any statutory or other
                        powers, rights or concessions.

                22.     To provide public or private amusements and
                        entertainments upon any property of the Company.

                23.     To acquire or construct, work, maintain, alter, use,
                        deal with and to sell, let or dispose of any property
                        and/or interest.

                24.     To acquire and undertake and to work the whole or any
                        part of the business, property and liabilities of any
                        person, firm or company carrying on (or in the case of a
                        company formed to carry on) any business which the
                        company is authorised to carry on, or possessed of
                        property suitable for the purposes of this company.

                25.     To enter into partnership or into any agreement for
                        sharing, profits, union of interests, co-operation,
                        joint adventure, reciprocal concession, or otherwise
                        with any person, firm or company carrying on or engaged
                        in or about to carry on or engage in any business or
                        transaction which this company is authorised to carry on
                        or engage in any business or transaction capable of
                        being conducted so as directly or indirectly to benefit
                        this company and to take, subscribe for or otherwise
                        acquire shares, debentures, and securities of any such
                        company and to hold, sell, re-issue with or without
                        guarantee or otherwise deal with the same.

                26.     To acquire from any supreme, municipal, local or other
                        Government or Authority or from any body or person any
                        concession, charter, contract, right or privilege which
                        may seem desirable for the furtherance of any object of
                        the company and to make any arrangement which may seem
                        desirable for the last named purpose with any such
                        Government, Authority, body or person and to comply
                        with, work, sell or otherwise turn to account any such
                        concession, charter, contract, right or privilege.

                27.     To sell, improve, manage, work develop, exchange, lease,
                        mortgage, charge hypothecate, enfranchise, dispose of,
                        turn to account or otherwise deal with all or any part
                        of the property and rights of the company.

                28.     To carry on any other trade or business of any
                        description whatsoever (manufacturing, trading or
                        otherwise) which may seem to the company capable of
                        being advantageously or conveniently carried on
                        including manufacturing of Capital or Consumers Goods in
                        connection with business of the Company or otherwise
                        calculated, directly or indirectly, to enhance the value
                        of any of the Company's property and rights for the time
                        being or to promote the interests of the company.

                29.     To amalgamate with any other company having objects
                        altogether or in part similar to those of this Company.

                30.     To do all or any of the above things as principals,
                        agents, contractors, trustees, or otherwise, and by or
                        through trustees, agents or otherwise, and either along
                        or in conjunction with others, and to establish agencies
                        or branches for the purposes of the Company's business
                        in such place or places as may be considered necessary,
                        and to transact general agency business.

                31.     To establish and support or to aid in the establishment
                        and support of associations, institutions, funds, trusts
                        and conveniences calculated to benefit employees or
                        ex-employees of the Company or its predecessors in
                        business or the relative or dependents of such persons
                        and great pensions or allowances and to subscribe or
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                        charitable or benevolent object or for any exhibition or
                        for any public, general or useful object.

                32.     To pay out of the funds of the Company the costs and
                        expenses of and incidental to the promotion, formation
                        and establishment and registration of the Company.

                33.     To sell or dispose of the undertaking of the Company or
                        any part thereof for such consideration as the Company
                        may think fit and in particular for shares, fully or
                        partly paid debentures or debenture stock (redeemable or
                        perpetual) or securities of any other company having
                        objects altogether or in part similar to those of this
                        Company and to distribute any such shares, debentures,
                        debenture stock or securities amongst the Members of the
                        Company and either by way of dividends or upon any
                        return of Capital.

                34.     To acquire for such consideration as the Company shall
                        think fit in India or Overseas secret process,
                        inventions, protections, patents, brevets d'invention
                        and rights in the nature of patent rights therein, the
                        acquisition of which may seem advantageous or beneficial
                        to the Company and to test, use exercise, develop or
                        grant licenses in respect of or otherwise turn to
                        account the property rights or information so acquired.

                35.     To produce, distribute or exhibit in India or abroad
                        cinematographs, motion pictures, etc. and for that
                        purpose engage services of Artists, staff and other
                        personnel required.

                36.     To acquire by purchase, lease, exchange, hire or
                        otherwise any lands, tenements and premises of any
                        tenure, or interest in the same whether subject or not
                        to any charges or encumbrances and to hold or to sell,
                        let, alienate, mortgage, change or otherwise deal with
                        all or any such lands, tenements or premises.

                37.     To construct, erect and maintain either by the Company
                        or other parties, sewers, roads, streets, brick-kilns
                        and works, buildings, houses, flats, show-rooms and
                        shops and all other works, erections and things of any
                        description whatsoever either upon the lands acquired by
                        the Company or upon other lands and generally to alter
                        and to improve the lands and other property or the
                        Company.

                38.     To let on lease any such premises or parts thereof and
                        to provide such facilities for the occupiers whether
                        members or tenants thereof as are commonly provided in
                        residential flats, business offices or hotels.

                39.     To grant easements, profits, a pander or other rights in
                        over or under the said lands and to acquire such right
                        in, over or under any adjoining lands.

                40.     To enter into foreign or local collaboration, to start
                        any industry or business either in India or abroad.

                41.     To depute any person abroad or in the country or to call
                        for any other person either from abroad of from this
                        country and pay for all such expenses.

                42.     To start, acquire or build new hotels, boarding houses,
                        clubs, restaurants, cinema houses, theatres, or any
                        other places of recreation.

                43.     To acquire any agency rights, distributorships, etc. for
                        goods of any nature i.e. capital consumer's otherwise.

                44.     To purchase from within the country or import from
                        abroad machinery for manufacturing or resale and also to
                        sell machinery that may be purchased or imported for
                        manufacturing purposes.

                45.     To sell or hire out machineries installed-either old or
                        new.

                46.     Generally to do all such other things as may appear to
                        be incidental or conducive to the attainment of the
                        above object or any of them in any part of the world
                        either along or in conjunction with other objects of the
                        Company mentioned hitherto.



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        C.      OTHER OBJECTS:

                1.      To deal in shares, stock, Government papers, Debentures,
                        Debenture stock and securities of all kinds on its own
                        account or as agents for others, for ready or forward
                        deliveries and also to underwrite any shares, Debentures
                        or Debenture stock.

                2.      To carry on the business of trading through Electronic
                        Commerce i.e. commercial transactions on the Internet
                        facilitating buying and selling or otherwise dealing in
                        all kinds of merchandise and services including books &
                        publications, audio & video products, tourism, jewelry,
                        confectioneries and other food items, personal & heath
                        care products stationary, consumer utility products,
                        clothings, watches, sports goods, flowers, computers &
                        computer related accessories and electronic items.(**)

                3.      a.      To engage in the business of data processing,
                                software development, computer consultancy and
                                software supply services.

                        b.      To engage in any business relating to access or
                                computer resource (as defined under any law
                                relating to information technology)

                        c.      To engage in any Information Technology -
                                enabled business including relating to the
                                Internet, Intranet, Extranet, Outernet or any
                                developments thereof and all interactive
                                services. (@)



IV.     The liability of the members is limited.

V.      "The Authorized share capital of the company is Rs. 10,00,00,000 (Rupees
        Ten crores) divided into 2,00,00,000 (Two Crore) equity shares of Rs. 5
        each with power to increase and reduce the capital of the Company and to
        divide the shares in the capital for the time being into several classes
        and attach thereto respectively such preferential, deferred, qualified
        or special rights, privileges or conditions as may be determined by or
        in accordance with the Articles of Association of the Company for the
        time being and to vary, modify or abrogate any such rights, privileges
        or conditions in such manner as may be permitted by the Companies Act,
        1956 or by the Articles of Association of the Company for the time
        being." (~) (#)


        (Amended vide Resolution passed at the Extra-Ordinary General Meeting
        held on 20th March, 1998).

        (**) Amended vide Resolution passed at the Extra-Ordinary General
        Meeting held on 6th July, 1998).

        (@) Amended vide Resolution passed at the Annual General Meeting held on
        13th August, 1999

        (~)Amended vide Resolution passed at the Extra-Ordinary General Meeting
        held on 6th January, 2000

        (#)Amended vide Resolution passed at the Extra-Ordinary General Meeting
        held on 3rd May, 2000

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We, the several persons whose names, addresses and descriptions are hereunder
subscribed are desirous of being formed into a Company in pursuance of this
Memorandum of Association and we respectively agree to take the number of shares
in the Capital of the Company set opposite to our respective names.



                                          No. of Equity                   Signature, Name,
         Name, Address, Description &     Shares taken    Signature    Address Description &
 Sr          Occupation if any of            by each      of the        Occupation if any of
 No              Subscribers.              Subscriber.    Subscribers       the Witness.
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  1            AJIT BALAKRISHNAN              100              SD/-
               S/O. THAYYAMBALI              EQUITY                       WITNESS TO BOTH:
                 BALAKRISHNAN               SHARES OF
             26 D, SAGAR SANGEET          RS.10/- EACH                          SD/-
                   COLABA,                                                BHARAT M. PENDSE
                BOMBAY 400 025                                          S/O.MADHAV S.PENDSE
                   BUSINESS                                               31, PREM MILAN,
                                                                       87-B, NEPEAN SEA ROAD
                                                                           BOMBAY 400 006


  2               ARUN NANDA                  100                        CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT
             S/O.DIWAN NAROTAMLAL            EQUITY            SD/-
                    NANDA                   SHARES OF
           15, TARANGINI APARTMENTS       RS.10/- EACH
              VEER SAVARKAR MARG
                BOMBAY 400 025
                   BUSINESS

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                    TOTAL                  200 EQUITY
                                           SHARES OF
                                          RS.10/-EACH


PLACE: BOMBAY                                         DATED: 14TH DECEMBER, 1995




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