Siddhartha Tawadey&rsquo;s images are full of movement and emotion.

Indelible compositions

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An outstanding English transcreation of a classic Malayalam book gives us an intimate,&ldquo;perspective&rdquo; Mahabharata through the eyes of the second Pandava.

Bhima speaks

It&rsquo;s a rare time when mainstream artists engage with global political issues, keeping intact their ability to produce an experience as part of their art work. It&rsquo;s not unknown, just rare &mdash; the challenge is to embrace the senses of others in your work.

Beyond the gallery

Avijit Das Patnaik, project manager at Standard Chartered Bank in Singapore, has just two things on his mind &mdash; the lofty targets his bank sets for him and his football team&rsquo;s performance &mdash; and each brings equal amounts of sweat beads on his brow. No, this banker does not own a football team but manages a virtual team of 15 players and invests almost eight hours a week strategising for his team. Patnaik along with 50,000 other gamers belongs to this latest genre of gaming &mdash; online fantasy games.

Gaining from fantasy

Apple&rsquo;s iPhone may be forcing its way into the handheld gaming market, sidelining the Nokia N-Gage gaming platform, but console kings Sony and Nintendo have no plans to back off yet. With the Sony PlayStation Portable (PSP) 3000 and PSP Go, and Nintendo&rsquo;s DSi in the market, Christmas holidays will be the best time to bring home a portable gaming console.

Game to play?

Three friends went to college together, became software engineers, went to Silicon Valley, got cushy jobs and, after a few years, decided to become entrepreneurs. Sounds like a run-of-the-mill story? But this is where Tushar Makhija&rsquo;s story takes a serious turn. It&rsquo;s common to hear of entrepreneurs struggling to get that one big idea to start a business, but for Makhija and his two other friends, it was simply about taking inspiration from several popular online portals and creating a unique one of their own.

Tr(e)ading with caution

Ravind Budhiraja, a US-based Web developer, has read a bunch of e-books. &ldquo;I have the very first Sony e-reader, which I am looking to get rid of. Not because I don&rsquo;t like e-readers, but because I&rsquo;ve been drooling over the Nook.

Carry around a virtual library

The price war in the touch screen mobile phone market in India has just begun. While Samsung has created a stir with Corby, which it launched a few weeks ago, Nokia is planning to catch up fast with the 5230 and 5530 models.

Battle for touch screens

Yuvraj Singh has just told us the secret of his power-packed performances. It&rsquo;s Revital, a combination of vitamin, mineral and the Chinese wonder herb Ginseng.

New tonic for Revital

There is an old joke in advertising. Agencies bully small clients into buying great work, while large clients bully good agencies into producing crap.

Thank God for telecom

Little-known Mankind Pharma has earned a name for itself with cheap drugs. Can it move up the value chain?.

Mankind vs Goliaths

The biggest casualty of the global financial meltdown was real estate. Banks became wary of lending. Home buyers postponed purchases out of fears of joblessness. Companies put their real estate plans on hold or simply dumped them. Of late, things have begun to look up. Takers for reasonably-priced real estate are back. Large buyers of office space, especially the information technology companies, have started to return to the market place.

'All markets are now recovering'

Videocon thinks integrating set-top boxes with consumer appliances will prove disruptive in the crowded DTH market.

Out of the box

Airtel&rsquo;s new ad attempts to block its consumers&rsquo; mind space in a market cluttered with aggressive plans.

No man is an island

Last week, German domestic appliances maker Miele entered the Indian market with a range of 65 high-end products targeted at the premium segment. This is the company&rsquo;s single biggest venture outside the German market. The offerings, which are priced between Rs 23,000 and Rs 20 lakh, are targeted primarily at the 400,000 most affluent people in the country. Miele has opened its first &ldquo;product experience centre&rdquo; in Delhi.

Miele: Doing a BMW in appliances

THE CURRENT SIZE of the computer peripherals market is estimated between Rs1,500 and Rs 2,000 crore. It is growing at about 20 per cent a year.

KIT: The Indian market for computer peripherals

Within the first three months of its launch in 2007, the Maruti Suzuki SX4 had overtaken the then Honda City to become the market leader in its segment. Two years hence, the situation is rather different. Today, the Honda City has recovered lost volumes. And Maruti Suzuki&rsquo;s very own Swift Dzire is the leader in the segment. And all of this has been at the cost of the SX4, once the darling of its segment.

Maruti Suzuki: SX4 redux

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    Desire, Calgaro, Diya, Kashmi, Maya and Lucera are some of the brands of this company. It has 25 film stars who are its brand ambassadors. Name it.

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The 1.5x2.2 meter area where Ravindra Salunkhe sells vegetables and fruits at the upmarket Cuffe Parade in South Mumbai may look like just another case of an unauthorised hawker occupying prime space.

Serving up a 'Super Ace'

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