The Indian sugar-boiled confectionery market is estimated at around $700 million (Rs 3,100 crore) .

KIT: The sugar-boiled confectionery (candy) market

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THE NEW AGE OF INNOVATION
Author: C K Prahalad&nbsp;
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THE LEADERSHIP CHALLENGE
Authors: Jim Kouzes and Barry

The top 10 business bestsellers

    This vehicle named after a city in the US will be launched in India sometime this year. Despite its obscure looks, the first of its kind vehicle from this company was a success when it was launched in the US. Name it.

The Strategist Quiz (#147)

The heritage brand, which has retained its number two position through an aggressive rural push, seems to be a permanent takeover target.

Amrutanjan: Pain for suitors

The ambitious Unique Identification (UID) number project has got a new identity and logo &ndash; something that brand experts have endorsed wholeheartedly. While the project has been renamed Aadhar, the new logo has the halo of the Sun on the imprint of a thumb.

How to sell Aadhar

Time and again, people around the world have partially or fully disrobed in protest.

Underexposure

Old coins and paper money are not just an antiquarian interest; they are also big business. Priyanka Joshi meets the Todywallas, who run India&rsquo;s first licensed numismatics auction house.

Heads we win

There&rsquo;s security in rootlessness when you are a &lsquo;global citizen&rsquo;.

No place is home

A macabre Swedish export has gained popularity over the last few years: crime fiction. It is a phenomenon the whole world is talking about.

What is it about swedes and crime fiction?

The search continues

Trust nobody when they say they can tell you about India. Unless the teller is a storyteller, and can offer you an essence distilled into a myth. When the subject is so oceanic in scale, nothing factual is going to be adequate and only the purely fictional can be entirely true.

Lost on the river

A plot of land with a real machan, a wacky idea, an enterprising architect. This getaway in Lonavala provides an unusual experience.

A cut above

Look between the covers for design opportunities.

Kyoorius characters

Bijoy Kumar Y lists a dozen big brands that have ignored Indian roads so far. Just when you thought we had them all...

Missing the India bus

I live in Mumbai and I am looking forward to buying a car in the range of Rs 3 to 4.5 lakh. I will only travel about 50-odd kilometres on weekends and a getaway once in three months or so. I did test drive the Tata Indica Vista Safire and the Chevrolet Beat. Though the Vista has a luxurious cabin and good space, the driving aspect of the Beat surpasses that of the Indica. I will drive the car myself.

Beat this

Neha Chowdhry tells you how to design your home theatre space.

Acoustics aesthetics

Why pair plain-vanilla speakers with high-definition flatscreen TVs? Priyanka Joshi picks out the best home theatre systems your money can buy.

A sound alliance

Indians are suspicious of all soups except Hot &amp; Sour, and Tom Yam.

Hot days, cold soup

If a latest report is to be believed, 80 per cent of mobile subscribers are willing to accept advertisements in exchange for free music downloads.

Thank you for the music

Soon, we will forget flash drives just like we did floppy disks. The reason being web apps (applications) now allow users to work from virtually anywhere. So, not only does this negate the need to carry around our files, you can even work on them from anywhere &mdash; whether you are editing a document from home or collaborating with someone from any corner of the world.

Working on docs in the air

Answers to last week's quiz (#147)

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