Upasna Kamineni, Dr Prathap C Reddy&rsquo;s grand-daughter, is expecting an elephant as a birthday gift. She talks to Neha Bhatt about her privileged life, her fight with obesity, and why she is involved with different charities.

The B+ve heiress

Business Standard

It is in the fitness of things that maverick fashion designer Manish Arora should design a villa at the equally maverick Dune Eco Village on the fringes of Puducherry. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re currently working on it,&rdquo; confirms Dimitri Klein, the Frenchman who upped and sold his advertising agency in France to go around the world to see in which exotic part of the world he should next make his home. When his wife became pregnant in India, he took that as an omen, and the couple moved to Auroville for four years.

Topsy-turvy villas and cottages

Yinka Shonibare, the flamboyant 47-year-old Nigerian-British artist honoured with an MBE, is showing at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Sadly, the exhibition has been unable to use the excellent opportunity to allow his body of work to follow a coherent narrative. Indeed, the display becomes not a means of showing Shonibare&rsquo;s oeuvre, but wrestling with it, even subverting it un-selfconsciously, every now and then.

Incongruous curating

The two countries&rsquo; shared history has imparted a complicated edge to their rivalry. For many Indians, Pakistanis are merely estranged siblings, &lsquo;basically like us&rsquo;... For other Indians, Pakistan can never be free of the taint of the original sin of its creation &mdash; the vivisection of the motherland in the name of religious separatism &mdash; and so their attitude as cricket fans is not just to support India against anyone, but also to support anyone against Pakistan.

Playing the real game

He studied with Shefali Zariwala,&rdquo; said the father of the bride, not apologetically but with pride, looking at his son jiving on the dance floor. My mother &mdash; who he was confiding in &mdash; must have looked flummoxed because he was forced to remind her: &ldquo;&hellip; that kanta laga girl, the item number&hellip;.&rdquo; The occasion was an engagement in the family.

Culture vulture

There are books on him and then there are books on him. But Richard Wolffe&rsquo;s book, says Kishore Singh, is on how Barack Obama became the President of the USA.

Yes, Obama can!

Radio old-timer Roshan Abbas tells Abhilasha Ojha of the downslide in the medium, his show on TV and his big plans to enter films.

Small town, big dreams

In the last few days a handful of writer-reviewer spats &mdash; nasty, as they usually are, but also unsatisfyingly brief and lowbrow &mdash; have washed up in the books sections of major English-language papers. One, between American writer Alice Hoffman and Boston Globe reviewer Roberta Silman, turned Twitter bitter. Another, between New York Times reviewer Caleb Crain and British pop-philosopher and seeker of beauty Alain de Botton, debuted on Crain&rsquo;s blog and migrated to Twitter before it hit the books pages. Business Standard columnist Nilanjana S Roy wrote this week about how authors cope (or spectacularly fail to cope) with bad reviews.

Critical mess

Swapnali: Frozen in the 2&deg;C at Kruger. Warmed at heart by leopards and cubs.

It's so 'real' on the Net

Mobile applications, better known as apps, are programmes that can be downloaded from online stores to run on your mobile phones. These apps enable you to choose for yourself what you want to see, use and experience on your handset.

What's in store?

After the initial struggle, ITC Foods is finally making its presence felt through its parent&rsquo;s distribution muscle.

Racks to riches

Nitish Mittersain, founder of Nazara Technologies, is among the few entrepreneurs who have remained unflappable in the current economic crisis.

The mobile entertainer

Licensed radio companies seem to be embracing the online media wholeheartedly. Why not, after all the music-hungry audience here is swelling by the day.

Radio stations croon their way into cyberia

1. When you don&rsquo;t have talent you should at least have great equipment. If you are a writer/art director/planner, get yourself a funky fountain pen (note: a rollerball is a not a tool, it&rsquo;s an embarrassment), next up is Apple&rsquo;s MacBook Pro laptop. If you are short, get the 17inch model.

6 points about advertising

Samsung hopes to double its mobile phone sales this year. Like most other key players, it&rsquo;s counting on innovative products to drive its sales. At the same time, it&rsquo;s building a range broad enough for consumers to find a phone with whatever features they like under the brand. In the first six months of the year alone, it has introduced over 20 new models &mdash; six of them touch screen &mdash; and now has over 50 models in its portfolio.

Samsung: Smart call

The animation industry in India is estimated at $460 million (Rs 2,232 crore).

KIT: The Indian animation industry

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IT&rsquo;S NOT WHAT YOU SELL, IT&rsquo;S WHAT YOU

The top 10 business bestsellers

    This magazine initially featured a &ldquo;sweetheart of the month&rdquo; and changed its original name after its co-founder suggested the name of the car company that produced only 97 cars in its history and closed down. Name the magazine.

The Strategist Quiz (#106)

    Which company&rsquo;s stated vision is to &ldquo;be the largest and No.

Answers to last week's quiz (105)

GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare is leveraging on Horlicks' brand equity to get into new categories.

Horlicks stretches out

In a way, Rashmi Barbhaiya has pharmaceuticals in his blood. His physician father, Harshad Barbhaiya, worked for the Sarabhais. After studying at the University of London and University of Florida, Barbhaiya joined Bristol Myers Squibb as a senior research scientist and went on to become vice-president (metabolism and pharmacokinetics). When he left in 2001, he had a budget of $30 million and led a team of 180 scientists. He then set up his own consultancy outfit called Dynametics Consulting.

Medicine for all

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