Lounge for 23 Apr 2011

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Saturday, April 23, 2011

Vol. 5 No. 17

LOUNGE THE WEEKEND MAGAZINE

Qawwals Chand Nizami (centre) and his nephews, Shadab (right) and Sohrab, at the Nizamuddin dargah.

BUSINESS LOUNGE WITH CALLAWAY’S THOMAS YANG >Page 8

THE NEXT KING OF THE COURT? Serbia’s Novak Djokovic exemplifies how big hitters from this little country with a laid­back approach have gotten so good >Page 9

A RAINY DAY WITH RUSKIN BOND Mussoorie’s living landmark has completed 60 years of writing >Page 14

THE REST IS MUSIC

THE COFFEE POT HAS RUN DRY

The rivalry between Delhi’s two leading ‘qawwal’ dynasties illustrates the tension between the classical and the modern >Page 10 THE GOOD LIFE

OUR DAILY BREAD

SHOBA NARAYAN

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CULT FICTION

SAMAR HALARNKAR

HOW TO SURVIVE THE DELICIOUS SUMMER HOLIDAYS TALE OF THE BASA don’t know about you, but it is around now—three weeks into the summer holidays that began 1 April here in Bangalore—that I feel like killing myself. Either that, or give those saintly schoolteachers a Nobel Peace Prize. How on earth do they manage a class full of nine-year-olds and manage to stay sane? As I write this, my kitchen has been taken over by five children, all under 10, who are engaged in the sweet if messy process of baking chocolate-chip cookies. The floor is... >Page 4

A round­up of the valuable lessons to be learnt from season 3 of ‘Koffee with Karan’ >Page 17

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et me tell you the strange tale of Pangasius hypophthalmus—in a paragraph. For centuries, this strange creature kept to itself in the riverine depths of south-western Vietnam. Then, the trade engine of the flattened world of the 21st century dragged it out of the Mekong river delta, plonked it in a fish farm and passed it off as something it is not. Via Kolkata, it finally wound up in my New Delhi kitchen, where, in a bamboo steamer imported from Chinatown in the North American... >Page 5

R. SUKUMAR

DON’T MISS

in today’s edition of

CONSTANTINE’S QUARTER­CENTURY

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would say the cigarette that’s forever hanging from his lips is cool but I know that it isn’t. There was a time in my teens when I thought cigarettes were cool. A decade and several tens of thousands of cigarettes later I gave up smoking because it bored me. And I immediately put on weight, going from 62kg to 80 in just around a year. Back when I smoked I was lean and mean. Like him. The trench coat is definitely cool. I’ve often considered getting one like it (but good sense has prevailed)... >Page 15

FILM REVIEW

DUM MAARO DUM


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