People only want to be alone together. They need time to meet and talk. They want to find themselves through a moment of love.&rdquo; Thus is born the guest house called the &ldquo;Four Seasons&rdquo;, Delhi&rsquo;s love nest for everyone, nestled among the Lutyens bungalows.

Room for love

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Forty years ago, man landed on the Moon. Also in 1969, the Vietnam war ground on, high hippydom ruled Western youth culture, feminism was in its so-called second wave, and the collectivist kibbutz movement in Israel was at the peak of its post-war efficacy. In 1969, Ursula Le Guin was just gaining renown as a writer. In that year she turned 40, and published her best-known science fiction novel.

Just imagine

The Beetle has a bigger role to play for Volkswagen India than just the numbers.

Reverse engineering

The largest selling adhesive in Asia has done much more than memorable ads to stay on top.

How Fevicol moved up the stickiness curve

In a bid to augment growth, the Rs 2,830-crore Dabur India has identified the foods segment in addition to skincare as areas it wishes to focus on in the coming quarters. Dabur India&rsquo;s Vice-Chairman Amit Burman says these categories are critical for the company.

First Dabur campaign on cooking range

Come December and creative folk across agencies are assailed by huge bouts of socially responsible feelings. A sudden urge envelops them to set the world right. More pressing is the fact that these urges have to be fulfilled by December 31 (the cut off date for most advertising awards.) Suddenly copywriters see red if there is less green, their creative juices flow relentlessly as they urge you to wear condoms, cubicles fog up with smoke as you are asked to quit smoking and long evenings are spent at the corner beer bar as newer ways to prevent drinking and driving are mulled over.

Social in December

2009&rsquo;s movers and shakers share with us the gadgets that set their hearts racing.

What presses their buttons

The ever-familiar Cadbury Dairy Milk chocolate has changed its stripes. Lest you miss the new packaging that a bar of the chocolate will now sport, Cadbury, the country&rsquo;s largest chocolate maker, has lined up a charm offensive to grab more of your attention. The subtle change might be the first step in a brand refresh for Cadbury Dairy Milk. The new packs, which were 18 months in the making, were designed by Pearlfisher, a UK-based design studio.

Cadbury: Brand refresh

Public-private partnerships are on the rise in the Indian healthcare industry.

KIT: Trends in healthcare

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    This brand is named after the current that flows along the coast of Florida. Identify the brand and also the reason why it was named so.

The Strategist Quiz (#129)

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After being venerated as an IT czar, Wipro is slowly but surely gaining ground in the FMCG space, its original thrust area.

Back to its roots

US-based NComputing creates virtual desktops that allow multiple users to simultaneously share one computer. Stephen Dukker, the chairman and CEO of the company, says PCs today are so powerful they can easily support multiple users working on multiple applications. But to run such a multi-user environment one needs appropriate technology &mdash; a missing link to which not many companies have convincing answers.

'We are reinventing the economics of computing'

Union Bank is on a restructuring drive to become the country&rsquo;s top nationalised bank.

Riding up the sweepstakes

Yash Chopra, the king of romance in Bollywood, is all set to paint the small screen &lsquo;red&rsquo; from January 1. Chopra&rsquo;s YRF TV has partnered with general entertainment channel Sony Entertainment Television exclusively to launch five shows which will be aired on Friday, Saturday and Sunday between 8:00 pm and 10:00 pm.

Yash Raj Films: Big debut on small screen

A slowdown makes everybody demand more bang for the buck. Stuck with smaller budgets, companies demanded better campaigns from agencies in 2009. And the agencies rose to the occasion. From lateral thinking to innovative execution of ads and meaningful insights, campaigns this year were a cut above the rest. Choosing the best five was anything but easy.

AD-vantage innovation

The UK restaurant critic A A Gill is as well known for his acerbic outrageousness as for his (formidable) knowledge of food, but even he couldn&rsquo;t have predicted the storm he would create with what will go down in history as the &ldquo;baboon confession&rdquo;. In his Sunday Times review of The Luxe, Gill served up an unforgettable opening line: &ldquo;I shot a baboon in Africa, last Wednesday, just after lunch.

Sliced baboon for breakfast?

With daybeds making a lasting impression in furniture trends, Abhilasha Ojha discovers that the market, apart from offering choices, is very high on design.

Daybed seating

I am interested in a diesel car and am contemplating the Maruti Suzuki Ritz and Swift and the Fiat Grande Punto. I drive about 50 km within the city daily, and once or twice a month to places around Mumbai (Pune, Nashik, Surat, etc).

Diesel decision

Don&rsquo;t we all just love massages? Lounging in the luxury of a massage chair or, even better, lying on a mattress while it vibrates the spine gently but firmly &mdash; massages at home never felt so good. So say goodbye to stress and hello to indulgence even as these gadgets, with just a click of the remote, knead your muscles, soothe your tired nerves and help you face the grind of the next day.

Ah! Massage

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