    &ldquo;What&rsquo;s this internet thing? I don&rsquo;t get it.

Answers to last week's quiz (#224)

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Kosi, Kumaon

Kumaon

Stranded in the rainwashed hills of Uttarakhand, Suman Dubey wonders why it had to be so.

Mid-term break in Kumaon

After tasting success with its newly launched premium ice cream range, Ahmedabad-based Vadilal Industries, the second largest ice cream maker in the country, is now planning to spread wings in the processed fruits business with its aamras brand, &lsquo;Garden Fresh Kerino Ras&rsquo;.

Aamras takes the brand route

Crowdsourcing is a great way to cement the bond between the brand and the consumer.

Jugaad in Indian advertising 

Geetanjali Krishna walks around Porto and comes back enchanted by the people, food, wine lodges and the relaxed pace of life.

Porto works

I would love to get hold of a bottle of Dom Perignon Rose Vintage 1959 (my birth year!).

My Life My Style: Alex Kuruvilla, MD, Conde Nast India

How do cities (actually, the people who live in those cities) view art? At the risk of trading in clich&eacute;s, one finds that over the years the dynamics haven&rsquo;t changed all that much, even though the markets have shifted base from the financial capital to India&rsquo;s aspiring world city where reckless spenders on brands treat art as just another commodity that&rsquo;s as important, or insignificant, as the signature on it.

Urban at art

Mumbai&rsquo;s airport needs room to grow, so the Sahar slum is being cleared. Arghya Ganguly finds out where, and whether, the residents will go.

Landing rights

The last while has not been a good time to be a Honda employee. The Japanese behemoth, which once could do no wrong in India, has found itself beleaguered by all manner of crises. Some, like the recent tsunami in Japan, have been beyond its control, but others have been situations where a bit of timely action could have staved off significant headaches. To not have a diesel offering in its stable, in a country where petrol prices have blown the roof off, is puzzling, to say the least. The other area where Honda has displayed a lack of foresight is in the small car arena; it may have given us the Jazz, but its price ensured that only die-hard Honda fans reached for their chequebooks.

Look lively!

He calls himself a serial entrepreneur. With food, wine and, of course Dabur Foods, rightly so.

Selling Kuchh Nai

Sure, it was a gloomy day on the whole and it was raining fat Persian cats and dogs, but there wasn&rsquo;t one gloomy face in the gang that reflected the greyness of the atmosphere. Why, you ask? Well, because we were surrounded by 13 of the cutest and the brightest classic Volkswagen Beetles around, not to forget some of the most cheerful and passionate Beetle owners you&rsquo;d come across. Business Standard Motoring, together with Volkswagen, had organised a classic Volkswagen Beetle rally over the last weekend, and we had a great time driving down to the Volkswagen plant in Chakan near Pune, 13 Bugs in tow.

That's all, Volks!

Thierry Marx, an ex-soldier whose mother sells sausages, has held two Michelin stars and runs a haute cuisine restaurant in Paris.

Paratrooper chef

I am confused between the Fiat Punto diesel and Hyundai i20 diesel. I like the Punto more since it&rsquo;s good value for money, but I&rsquo;ve heard that Fiat after-sale isn&rsquo;t too good. On the other hand, the i20 has a long waiting period plus it&rsquo;s expensive. Please advise.

Head or heart?

HIV/AIDS has not taken as savage a bite out of India&rsquo;s population as was predicted a few years ago.

Outlook positive

If you responded &quot;yes&quot; to some of the above, you are guilty of lookism, a prejudice perhaps more insidious than racism that has concerned psychologists, social scientists, feminists and spin-doctors for years.

Of beauty and lookism

A new book and a documentary put chess star Bobby Fischer in the spotlight once more. J Jagannath looks for fresh insight into the flawed genius.

Lethal moves

It&rsquo;s California&rsquo;s reading-for-pleasure and its attendant neighborhood library culture that I miss the most. Yes, that&rsquo;s it. I&rsquo;m finally sure of the answer to the second question every one in Palo Alto asked us when we said we were moving back to India. It was after our container had been shipped, carrying all our worldly belongings. All we had left to get us through the next few weeks were eight suitcases, a borrowed airbed &mdash; and around 50 books from our neighborhood library.

Chess (#688)

Relying on preconceived notions, Siddhartha Deb misses the real story.

New India, old angle

Priyanka Sharma spends time with two popular RJs in their studio and finds what it takes to keep the listeners tuned in on the radio.

Having fun on air

Here is a collection of &ldquo;new Indian writing&rdquo; that defies the present state of Indian writing: its fiction is more interesting than its non-fiction, though there is less of it.

Fiction is better than fact

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