Lounge for 12 Mar 2011

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Saturday, March 12, 2011

Vol. 5 No. 11

LOUNGE THE WEEKEND MAGAZINE

Friends and relatives mourn Neetu Solanki at her home in Matiala, Delhi.

BIHAR’S PRIDE, EAT IT >Page 8

THE REMAINS OF NAXALBARI

This one­road village wears no clues to its revolutionary past >Pages 6­7

THE GIRL WITH THE PEACOCK TATTOO

EXPERIMENTS WITH BOOKS

Zubaan’s Urvashi Butalia helped create the blueprint for indie publishers. Now she hopes to make it a sustainable, for­profit business >Page 14

The tattoo was Neetu Solanki’s way of saying she would live life on her own terms. But in aspirational, conservative new India, being forthright and fearless can be deadly >Page 10 REPLY TO ALL

THE GOOD LIFE

DYSFUNCTIONALLY FUNCTIONAL

LESSONS IN RAJAT GUPTA’S CALL

AAKAR PATEL

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ndian society functions as a whole. Observed in part, it’s dysfunctional. Let me explain. Without Gujaratis and Rajasthanis, India wouldn’t have an economy. Delete Tata/Birla/Ambani/Mittal/Premji and India begins to look like Bangladesh. The rest of the country—Bengal, Bihar, Orissa, Kashmir, UP, etc.—will have lots of culture but little else. That such a tiny community monopolizes the ability to raise and manage capital is frightening. However, it needs to be understood... >Page 4

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Moving beyond traditional imagery, contemporary Tibetan art is carving a niche for itself >Page 16

PIECE OF CAKE

SHOBA NARAYAN

here is a Sanskrit saying that I grew up hearing, “Vinasha kaleshu viparitha buddhi”. My grandfather used it to sketch out doomsday scenarios, the idea being that as one’s doom approaches, one’s mind works perversely—like Ravana when he kidnapped Sita or Duryodhan before the Mahabharat. What fascinated me was the corollary. If your mind works perversely in bad times, can you avert the bad times by adjusting your mind and your... >Page 4

LEAVING LHASA VEGAS

PAMELA TIMMS

DON’T MISS

in today’s edition of

THOSE DELECTABLE CRUMPETS

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ust what is so sexy about crumpets? Elizabeth David noted in 1977 that “crumpet” had long been a colloquialism used to describe “a piece of skirt, any likely young woman, a girl with whom someone is having a passing affair, and other less polite interpretations”. In the heyday of political incorrectness, a leading British broadcaster, Frank Muir, coined the phrase “thinking man’s crumpet” to describe Joan Bakewell, a woman audacious enough to be both... >Page 9

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