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Saturday, August 6, 2011
Vol. 5 No. 32
LOUNGE THE WEEKEND MAGAZINE
THE NEW OLD DELHI As New Delhi turns 100, Shahjahan’s Walled City is also embracing change. We visited a joint family and its neighbourhood to feel the new pulse >Pages 1012
BUSINESS LOUNGE WITH ACUMEN FUND’S JACQUELINE NOVOGRATZ >Page 8
SMARTPHONE THINKING ON A DESKTOP
OS X Lion is a wily beast, but it recognizes that things have been wrong for too long with desktops >Page 7
‘JUST A WAY TO SHUT UP SOCIETY’ As experts debate their ‘marriage’, two women get protection from a Gurgaon court against prejudices and death threats >Page 9
MODERNITY AND MEGA CITIES
Architect Rahul Mehrotra on his new book, how ‘impatient capital’ shapes a city’s skyline, and the relevance of Gandhian ideas of space >Page 16
An oldstyle house at Chitli Qabar Chowk in Old Delhi.
LUXURY CULT
REPLY TO ALL
RADHA CHADHA
MCQUEEN’S ART OF CONTRASTS
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am not the only lady gaga over McQueen—there are thousands of people in the queue, waiting an average of 2 hours to enter the spectacular retrospective Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, which is in its last week at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met) in New York. Its 4 May opening pulled a crowd of 5,100, the highest first-day traffic the Met has had since the Vincent van Gogh show in 2005. Nearly half a million visitors have already seen... >Page 4
AAKAR PATEL
WE OWE THE ‘PAV BHAJI’ TO AMERICA
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nack food represents a higher form of civilization. We can trace the ascent of man through his diet, from gulped mouthfuls to nibbled morsels. The peasant eats three meals, and often only two, lunch and an early supper. His day is structured around these sittings, and for him eating is purely for nourishment. Evidence of this is before me every day. My lunch is always thick bajra roti, one lightly cooked green, thin chhaas and a paste of garlic and red chillies. The food of my fathers. It is the trader who has introduced... >Page 5
MY DAUGHTERS’ MUM
NATASHA BADHWAR
DON’T MISS
in today’s edition of
WHY YOU WILL LEARN ON THE JOB
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hat do you know, they say to you. Wait till the pain starts. Wait till the baby wakes up, starts toddling, demands an iPad. Wait till the brat starts school, the angel turns 12. Wait till they fall in love…and then you’ll know. I don’t know what the grand truths are. I do know that everyday life with children needs to be constructed every day. Bruises kissed, roads crossed, stories narrated, albums uploaded, excuses made and work done. So how does one do it all? >Page 6
PHOTO ESSAY
FASTING, FEASTING