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Saturday, December 4, 2010
Vol. 4 No. 47
LOUNGE THE WEEKEND MAGAZINE
BUSINESS LOUNGE WITH CHRISTIAN DIOR’S SERGE BRUNSCHWIG >Page 6
TEE PARTY
Actor Imran Khan wears his interests on his sleeve—be it rock stars, comic characters or style icons >Page 7
SCIONS OF CHANGE IN THE NEW INDIA, SUCCESSION MEANS SYSTEMIC CHANGE. WE MET FIVE INHERITORS TO KNOW HOW THEY MEET THEIR UNIQUE CHALLENGES >PAGES 911 LUXURY CULT
GLOBALIZATION ON STEROIDS
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he girl who sells me the lipstick is from Kyrgyzstan. Her associate is from Russia. The lipstick, YSL, from France. The store, Bloomingdales, from the US. The guy who directs me to the store is from Syria—a smart-talking Romeo who claims to have been to Goa and Mumbai in search of his “Jasmine”. The Noodle Factory, where I stop for a quick bite, has a medley of Malaysian, Thai, Chinese, Indonesian dishes on the menu. The server who takes my order is from the Philippines; the supervisor... >Page 4
OUR DAILY BREAD
SHOBA NARAYAN
THE BIGTICKET CHARITY GAME
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ecently, someone asked why I wasn’t on Twitter. I am actually. I have an account although I don’t use it, mostly because Twitter intimidates me. It is too fast, too viral, and too abrupt. There is no preamble. People contradict and confront strangers with insouciance. Twitter negates all the civil foreplay that greases polite society and gets right into the act. Messages are short, cryptic, full of hashes, @ signs, retweets, and other obtuse conventions. Yes, yes, I know. I am a Luddite. >Page 4
It’s dangerous, costly, adrenalinfuelled fun. For moneyed entrepreneurs and ‘adventure capitalists’, kiteboarding is the new passion >Page 12
Pallavi Gopinath, 29, is business development officer, Deccan Cargo and Express Logistics.
THE GOOD LIFE
RADHA CHADHA
KITERUNNERS’ CLUB
SAMAR HALARNKAR
EAST LONDON REVOLUTIONARIES For 27 years, their incendiary songs have given voice to a community. We spoke with Asian Dub Foundation on the eve of their India tour >Page 16
DON’T MISS
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REJECTION AND REVALIDATION
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o a man fattened by the endless and often overstated endorsements of friends, family and readers, the rejection of culinary skills by a 5.5kg baby cuts to the bone, cleaving through a flab of accumulated complacency. It seemed obvious. The man of the house runs the kitchen (the wife? she handles the family finances), so it was agreed that food for our new daughter would be my responsibility. Oh, I can just imagine the inventive baby food you’ll turn out, gushed the wife, as I swaggered around... >Page 5
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