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Before We Go To War James Rickards, author of "Currency Wars" believes that war is imminent, and the consequences are going to be far worse than those that confronted President Nixon in 1971.
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STYLE Purely Pankaj 68 Prasad Bidapa takes Pankaj Advani on a trip through The Collective to see how the world’s great designers fare in Pankaj’s Pick.
74 The Bespoke Shirt EXEC pays homage to the Bespoken Shirt and tells you why you should invest in them in 2012.
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EXEC and Kingfisher bring to you six restaurants and bars across the country How To Really Rock The Office Party 83 The office party is not really a party. It is still a business function where everyone is one faux pas away from the unemployment line.
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Boppin’ While Shoppin’ Or Waitin’ For The Plane Listen to Jazz anytime and anywhere with some of the applications built for your iPod, iPad or Android. EXEC presents some of the best jazz apps.
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Black Is The New Scary The classic horror novel makes it to the big screen with Daniel Radcliff in the lead.
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The Way I Travel... Sanjeev Jain, CEO of G Plus talks about what he would always carry in his check-in baggage.
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Cities across the country celebrate the happening events in town.
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PUBLISHER’S NOTE
The Groom With A View In the West, (and the Middle East and I’ll throw in the Orient), no one makes a mess at weddings. Littering is limited to the pelting of the couple Ramjee Chandran with rice. Importantly, the rice is uncooked. At Indian weddings, much of the rice that finds its way onto the floors of the dining rooms and hotel lobbies, is very, very cooked. There’s this one hotel I used to frequent. ‘Used to’ because it somehow won the reputation of being a ‘lucky hotel’ for weddings. How did the people arrive at this conclusion? The hotel was only ten years old; not old enough for divorce data as evidence. Maybe the smart hotel managers had positioned their brand thus. And once a hotel is deemed ‘lucky’, no father of the bride wants to joust with fate; debating the issue whilst his daughter twists a lace hanky between her fingers. The lobby was the hotel’s only entrance and the entire wedding party squeezed through it. Fat ladies sang tunelessly. Showing no mercy to onlookers they jiggled and convulsed. Members of the opposing factions shoved yellow sticky rice balls into each other’s mouths. Cooked rice balls. I had just got off a 15-hour flight. I had to wait 45 minutes to be checked in and now I had cooked rice, covered with carpet fibres, sticking to the wheels of my suitcase. Three strikes. I was out. Checked out before I checked in.
You Can Feel It Coming. What Should You Do? Ramjee Chandran is CEO and Editor-in-Chief, Explocity
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