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Saturday, February 12, 2011
Vol. 5 No. 7
LOUNGE THE WEEKEND MAGAZINE
THE INDIAN TIGER MOM >Page 7
PUNK FUNCTIONALITY
Singeractor Monica Dogra’s style icons are Ani DiFranco and Bjork and her wardrobe is hippie, punk and androgynous >Page 8
FULL FILLING
Ever thought of spending Valentine’s Day at Koh Laoliang? The region is a lovers’ paradise, to be discovered only by venturing into the unknown >Page 12
THE ‘CENTRE’ OF A NOVEL Orhan Pamuk’s musings on the art form tend to get woolly; what shines through is his passion for reading novels >Page 15
REPLY TO ALL
THE GOOD LIFE
AAKAR PATEL
BJP’S CURRENCY IS ITS ANGER
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he Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is sneeringly called the Brahmin-Baniya party, but this isn’t true. It is actually the party of Brahmins. BJP president Nitin Gadkari is Brahmin and so are the party’s leaders in both Lok Sabha (Sushma Swaraj) and Rajya Sabha (Arun Jaitley). The BJP has always been a party of Brahmins. Founded in 1951 as Jana Sangh, the BJP’s first leader was Brahmin (Syama Prasad Mookerjee), its most important thinker was Brahmin (Deendayal Upadhyaya)... >Page 4
LUXURY CULT
SHOBA NARAYAN
RADHA CHADHA
DON’T MISS
in today’s edition of
PODCASTS YOU WHAT TIES THE SHOULD LISTEN TO DAVOS ELITE
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t started with children’s audiobooks —abundantly available on the Web. Storynory.com offers free podcasts, in which a chirpy woman named Natasha tells stories suitable for children aged 6-16. Try it when your children come home from school. Along with their tiffin, you can serve them up a story. I have become hooked to podcasts. As someone who spends a lot of time staring at the computer, listening to stuff gives my eyes a rest... >Page 6
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t is surreal. I feel I am inside a TV channel. People I have only seen on the small screen are right here in flesh and blood. Bill Clinton, and the other Bill, Gates. And his wife Melinda—I love her, she has this amazing glow as she speaks about vaccines and disease eradication with such passion, clarity and intimate knowledge of the poorer corners of our world. There’s Bono and A.R. Rahman. President Medvedev, David Cameron, Nicolas Sarkozy... >Page 6
PHOTO ESSAY
YOUR WEDDING IS A WONDERLAND