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Saturday, September 3, 2011
Vol. 5 No. 36
LOUNGE THE WEEKEND MAGAZINE For many young Indians, home is in the mind, not a geographical location.
BUSINESS LOUNGE WITH HARLEY DAVIDSON’S ANOOP PRAKASH >Page 8
THE THINKING MAN’S SHOOTER
In 2000, ‘Deus Ex’ was well ahead of its time. ‘Human Revolution’ is a love letter to the original, in gameplay and atmosphere >Page 9
SEARCHING FOR CHICKEN RICE
THE SUITCASE INDIAN REPLY TO ALL
M
ost of us are married under a Vedic ceremony we don’t really understand. We are familiar with the Christian wedding and its vows because of cinema and our familiarity with English. However, this exchange between groom and bride is quite recent when compared with the Vedic ceremony. The Christian formulation is: “To have and to hold, for better and for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health till death do us part.” >Page 4
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THE GOOD LIFE
AAKAR PATEL
A MARRIAGE OF EQUALS
Owning a home is no longer the great middleclass dream. Exorbitant prices, getupandgo job opportunities and lifestyle choices have added to our general sense of uprootedness
LUXURY CULT
SHOBA NARAYAN
ANUPAM PODDAR AND HIS ART
A
bove art collector Anupam Poddar’s bed, hangs a Tyeb Mehta painting. It is perhaps the only sedate, if beautiful, objet d’art in his home. Opposite the bed, occupying half the bedroom floor, is a low-slung Sakshi Gupta metal sculpture that rises up and down, as if the earth were breathing. In the centre of Poddar’s spacious dressing room is an elongated, mechanical penis that moves forward and backward—a whimsical work by Sudarshan Shetty, whose hammers... >Page 5
RADHA CHADHA
To know Singapore is to know its food by stall number, clear soup, chilli dip and food court >Page 14
FOLLOWING THE FALLEN ANGELS Mohammed Hanif’s fiercely tender love letter to the human spirit is hobbled by its structure >Page 17
DON’T MISS
in today’s edition of
A LEAP BACK TO THE FUTURE?
I
am at a sold out 10km run in Central Park, New York. I am not sure what I am doing here as I can barely run for 5 minutes before I run out of breath. But this is a special race—the Boomer’s Cystic Fibrosis Run to Breathe 10K—and among the 5,000-plus participants there are some with the deadly lung disease. My family—they are running too—has talked me into this by pointing out that if people with serious health problems can do it then a relatively healthy woman... >Page 6
FILM REVIEW
THAT GIRL IN YELLOW BOOTS