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Saturday, April 30, 2011
Vol. 5 No. 18
LOUNGE THE WEEKEND MAGAZINE
TRAFFIC ON MOUNT EVEREST
POP STARS >Pages 67
DESIGN AND MATHEMATICS
A growing number of Indian civilians are making a beeline for the Everest on commercial guided expeditions >Pages 911
Inspired by the Jantar Mantar, a boutique hotel near Jaipur seeks luxury in geometry >Page 8
RECLAIMING KASHMIRIYAT
Between the crossfire and curfews, a generation missed the liberal, vibrant Kashmir. We met artistes who are reviving it >Page 16
‘WAH’, ONCE AGAIN PLEASE Arjun Vajpai was only 16 when he summited the Everest last year, the youngest Indian to do so.
REPLY TO ALL
PIECE OF CAKE
CRIMINAL MIND
MY MULBERRY MORNING
FICTION BY THE CASEBOOK
AAKAR PATEL
OUR 22K CULTURE OF CORRUPTION
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nalysis on corruption in India does not address its cultural aspect. We see nothing peculiar about corruption in India (except that it is everywhere). We see many corrupt individuals in a system unable to correct itself. Our media reports corruption episodically. One independent incident of greed follows another. Let us set all that aside and look at it differently. No race can be congenitally corrupt. But can a race be corrupted by its culture? To know why Indians are corrupt let’s look elsewhere... >Page 4
PAMELA TIMMS
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f the mango is the Aishwarya Rai Bachchan of the Indian fruit world, dazzling and international, perhaps a little over-exposed, then the poor old mulberry is the shy unmarried sister left behind in the village to look after granny, with only cowherds to marvel at her fragile beauty. In the past few weeks, the Alphonso has embarked on her annual red carpet rounds in London, Paris and New York, barely batting an eyelid at all the gushing and fawning. >Page 5
ZAC O’YEAH
Hyderabad’s ghazal culture is being revived in living room soirées and university halls >Page 18
DON’T MISS
in today’s edition of
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any of the older crime writers have been wary of diluting fiction with too much suspense-slackening fact. In Twenty Rules for Writing Detective Stories (1928), S.S. Van Dine laid it out—Rule 16: “A detective novel should contain no long descriptive passages, no literary dallying with side-issues, no subtly worked-out character analyses, no ‘atmospheric’ preoccupations.” H.R.F. Keating warns in Writing Crime Fiction that “facts from the real world... >Page 14
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