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Saturday, August 27, 2011
Vol. 5 No. 35
LOUNGE THE WEEKEND MAGAZINE
Behind the defunct chimney of India United Mills No. 1, the skyline of Lalbaug in central Mumbai is changing dramatically.
BUSINESS LOUNGE WITH DFJ INDIA’S MOHANJIT JOLLY >Page 8
SIX WAYS TO DRESS FOR FALL
The Lakmé Fashion Week Winter/Festive 2011 trends to make your own this season >Page 7
SUNNY SIDE OF THE STREET
MEMORIES OF AN ELEPHANT
Beyond the tourist traps, America’s blues city keeps its glorious musical traditions alive >Pages 1415
In a historic Mumbai neighbourhood, the start of the festive season brings the layers of an ongoing urban transformation into sharp focus
AN AMERICAN QUILT
Hari Kunzru’s new novel is a majestic work with memorable characters and a credible plot >Page 16
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THE GOOD LIFE
GAME THEORY
SHOBA NARAYAN
A PHANTOM AND OTHER NIGHT LIFE
I
got Delhi-envy at 1.43am on a soft summer night when I met a man called Honey. The evening began at 10pm at an art gallery opening. Hotelier Priya Paul (whom I had first met a week ago) and her friends, Vivek Sahni and Nikhil Khanna, were going out with a group of friends and they invited me to come along. The group included a contemporary artist-couple, a gallery owner, some expat curators, a design guru and some advertising folk. Some 15 of them debated... >Page 4
LEARNING CURVE
ROHIT BRIJNATH
THE VOICE FROM WITHIN
E
ffort is a voice in the athlete’s head. Effort to wake up at 4.17am, which is what Ian Thorpe did every day, effort when confidence is dying and the body hurts. Effort which gives sport a certain nobility. It is Rafael Nadal saying: “I fight, I fight, I fight”, and you can literally see his willingness to pursue his best self. This cliché which suggests a talent fully exhausted—“I gave 100 per cent”—is not easily lived. But it becomes the separation point between athletes. Not just skill... >Page 5
GOURI DANGE
DON’T MISS
in today’s edition of
LESSONS IN APPRECIATION
T
he process of getting any child—particularly one on whom so much adult attention and hard work has been lavished—to be appreciative and grateful should begin much before the age of 15. Ideally, the seeds for this must be sown early, and not when we see disturbing signs that our children are taking us thoroughly for granted. Teaching a child to be grateful and appreciative of what the adults around him or her do for him doesn’t mean we get our children to feel... >Page 6
SATURDAY Q&A WITH
LAVANYA NALLI