S serious audiophiles will agree that a good pair of earphones can be critical for your music experience. Here are two latest pairs of audio delights that we stumbled upon.

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    This product dates back to 1929 and was known for its trademark green shaft and transparent ink window. The brand under which it is sold was founded by a chemist in 1838 and currently has a Hanging Gardens of Babylon edition too. Name it.

Answers to last week&#39s quiz (#158)

India&rsquo;s most famous one-man brand will come out of the shadows in October to relaunch TV&rsquo;s biggest game show.

KBC: Waiting for a facelift

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    In the Indian context, what is common to GE, P&amp;G, Pillsbury, Sara Lee and now Hershey&rsquo;s?&nbsp;
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    In the late 1970s, Xerox agreed to accept

The Strategist Quiz (#159)

This year&rsquo;s agenda: More TV channels, 12 movies and a host of new media initiatives.

UTV on fast-forward

Retailers today are opting for revenue-sharing arrangements with reality companies to counter high rentals.

KIT: The revenue-sharing model in retail

A big city comes to life, its people begin a new day. But this will be no ordinary day. On this day, magical things happen.

New dimension in television

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Low-cost PCs fail to boot up fast in India

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Celebrities forge new media ties

Firm regains volume growth via focus on market share, market development, margins and consumers&rsquo; mood
Sitting in his corner office at Hindustan Unilever&rsquo;s spanking new headquarters in Mumbai, Nitin Paranjpe often walks up to his sales director to ask him the following questions : Why has the company&rsquo;s product movement slowed down in Asansol in the past couple of days? Or, why aren&rsquo;t there enough stocks in the FMCG major&rsquo;s Coimbatore depot?
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HUL's marketing mantra: 4M

When Diageo recently ended its bulk scotch sourcing contract from Whyte &amp; Mackay, time was running out for Vijay Mallya fast.

W&M high on premium brands

If you think Facebook is a waste of time, good only to keep in touch with friends, or, to use social-networking jargon, &lsquo;chat and poke&rsquo; &mdash; think again.

A virtual wave

Power up!

Jadoh and turungbai, mutton keema, butter biscuits, lemon pie, red tea at a tea stall with no name, &lsquo;slow food&rsquo; at Uncle Rock&rsquo;s.

Everyday pleasures

I sympathise with Mary Jane. It wasn&rsquo;t the rice pudding that got to the child, but the monotony of it. And at this moment in urban India&rsquo;s culinary history, there are a few things sneaked on to restaurant menus a few years ago that need to be eradicated for the greater common good.

Drop it like it's hot

Splitting headache with severe pain in patches in the head, fever that could cook food all over again, bloody nose and a mucous membrane that threatened to liberate itself from my body&hellip; welcome to high altitude syndrome or whatever people call it.

Back from the mountains

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Vent your mind

Many of the conventional &ldquo;how to eat healthy&rdquo; rules are flouted by the French. Yet they remain comparatively slim and svelte, have lower rates of heart disease and live long.

Haute and healthy

The face of golf in South Africa is changing for the better.

Walking the fairways

The world being what it is, we cynics get little respite. Once in a while, though, something makes your heart soar. I felt that in April, when I saw a YouTube video called Collateral Murder. Now I&rsquo;d like to find Julian Assange and give him a big hug and a kiss. And maybe a sandwich and a clean t-shirt. And maybe donate my life savings to his website WikiLeaks.org, which this week was to Rolling Stone&rsquo;s general-slaying report what a nuclear bomb is to a firecracker.

A good man is hard to find

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