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Saturday, December 11, 2010
Vol. 4 No. 48
LOUNGE THE WEEKEND MAGAZINE
CITY OF THE
WHITE TIGER
THE HUE OF 2011 >Page 8
THE CHIEF WINE EVANGELIST Sula Vineyards is set to double with new foreign equity. CEO Rajeev Samant tells us how he is changing wine tastes in India >Page 6
MIRRORS TO OUR DEVICEDRIVEN LIFE
Two books address our new wired reality where reading means negotiating everchanging digital platforms >Page 14
Bookerwinning author Aravind Adiga on Delhi’s extreme class barriers and its freeroaming peacocks—and why he had his life’s biggest epiphany here >Page 10 THE GOOD LIFE
THE TICKLED SCORER
SHOBA NARAYAN
FACEBOOK CAN’T HIDE YOU
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elative to some of my friends (real-world college friends, not the online ones who I have never met), I am a Facebook novice. Recently, I had a debate about journalistic ethics with several other journalists who live all over the world. It was the sort of argument that routinely happens in Bangalore’s Koshy’s or whatever your neighbourhood café happens to be. A group of opinionated people get together, start a topic; and proceed... >Page 4
RAHUL BHATTACHARYA
WHY TEST CRICKET IS IN A SLUMP
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ecline, decline everywhere in Test cricket. Australia are in gloat-worthy decline. New Zealand have declined to a small spot on the horizon. Pakistan are declining in concentric implosions. West Indies, perhaps, can no longer be accused of being in decline; they have simply settled into a permanent beach-chair recline. And yet managed to come out looking better in rain-drenched Sri Lanka who, no longer levitating on Murali’s magic carpet, are themselves not flying up, up and away. >Page 5
MUMBAI’S ELECTRIC ‘OTHERNESS’
What went into the making of ‘Dhobi Ghat’ and why director Kiran Rao’s Mumbai is akin to Wong Karwai’s Hong Kong >Page 16 Delhi’s Lodi Gardens is a walker’s paradise.
PIECE OF CAKE
PAMELA TIMMS
DON’T MISS
in today’s edition of
NANNY NELSON’S XMAS PUDDING
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uch as I would like to be the kind of cook whose diary reads: “1 Jan: make Christmas pudding for next year”, the truth is, I’m not. Which goes some way to explaining why I’m bringing you this festive recipe weeks after more organized cooks have their puddings made and stashed. This year, though, I have an excuse—on “Stir-Up Sunday”, the day towards the end of November on which Christmas pudding... >Page 7
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