Image-guided and other advanced surgeries will help decrease the number of days for hospital stay substantially, in some cases by two weeks.

KIT: Healthcare improvements

Business Standard

Sodhiji, a middle-aged Sikh played by brand ambassador Aamir Khan, is driving his car and criticising the hype around cricket. Making matters worse is Tata Sky&rsquo;s superior picture clarity which makes TV viewing addictive. He complains that while he stands in queues to pay bills, his son watches cricket on Tata Sky.

Campaign logic Tata Sky: Reverse psychology

National carrier Air India has positioned itself clearly between the full-service airlines (Kingfisher and Jet) and budget carriers (IndiGo, Spice and JetLite).

Air India: The middle path

Zee Business, the business news channel of the Zee Group, has increased its market share almost 100 per cent in the last one year. Launched in November 2004, it was the country&rsquo;s first Hindi business channel. However, it failed to make a mark. Up until one year ago, the channel lacked direction and a clear positioning. With a market share of approximately 11 per cent, it trailed CNBC, CNBC Awaaz and NDTV Profit by a huge margin.

Zee Business: Go local, get an audience

Rajesh Saxena recently moved from Citibank in Japan to become the chief executive of American Express Banking Corp, India. Saxena started his career with Hindustan Unilever and has spent 18 years in consumer and retail banking in five different geographies: India, Israel, Turkey, the UAE and Japan. He was a part of the core Citibank team when it launched credit cards in India in the early-1990s. The market today is different. Delinquencies are on the rise, consumers are spending less.

'Overseas spending has affected us'

Growth based on sanctions before Oct, say bank executives.

Banks step up lending to real estate

Narrated backward by six-year-olds in four generations of the same family, Fault Lines begins in California circa 2004, with the scarily distant voice of Sol, a precocious boy who surfs the Internet for porn and plays along with his mother&rsquo;s delusion that he is too young to watch Bridget Jones&rsquo; Diary.

Exploring the role of history in our lives

Now where to look for amusing and instructive historical parallels to this process of changing our government, choosing our leaders? I spent an increasingly frantic time flipping through Elias Canetti&rsquo;s Crowds and Power, Alberuni&rsquo;s India, Edward Gibbon&rsquo;s The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and a number of others (in other words, whatever came to hand or mind).

You are not our king yet

With &ldquo;not too much by way of money but wondrous amounts of passion&rdquo;, Faiza Seth made a go of design firm Casa Forma, she tells Abhilasha Ojha.

Understated excess

There are big and small rituals that make up artist Seema Kohli&rsquo;s life. Such as the layer of silver with which she begins each canvas &mdash; it is one of perhaps a dozen washes that will add depth and character to the painting, but it is a practice she will not vary. When she was a child, growing up in a household where no rituals were practiced, she delighted in lighting the lamp when it was time for vespers &mdash;even though her father forbade her till he found she had taken to secretly placing the lit flame in her cupboard, and so let her do her bidding for reasons of safety rather than piety.

The rituals of self-realisation

Skoda plays to its strengths with the new Superb diesel.

Superb it is

Post-war art from Germany has produced several spectacular artists &mdash; Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter, Anslem Kiefer, to name a few. All of them are well known, even quite loved, in India. Less so a successor artist, the extraordinary Martin Kippenberger. We just haven&rsquo;t seen that much work by him &mdash;unsurprisingly, since he died at 44, in 1997. Besides, he showed much less as well. A retrospective at the MoMA in New York, The Problem Perspective, however, goes beyond the expansive oeuvre of the artist. In these days of financial recession and a plunging art market, it reframes ideas about art and artists.

Keeper of our artistic memory

Shell brings its technology forum to India.

Fact vs friction

I am planning to buy a new car and the following are my requirements: 1. Budget: Rs 5 lakh 2. Daily driving: 4-5 km, Weekend driving: 20-120 km 3. Good ride quality 4. Low running costs. I like the looks of the Hyundai Getz Prime 1.3 GLS, but it offers low mileage. The Fiat Palio MJD can be a good choice, but it&rsquo;s an old design. I have no idea about the Swift diesel.

Prime choice

Music gharanas tended to be conservative, but a new generation of musicians is experimenting within that tradition. Neha Bhatt finds herself in the vortex of the ensuing debate between versatility and degeneration.

Notes of discord?

Degustation menus, the kind you find at smart restaurants in all the gourmet capitals of the world (and now, because of the global recession, at bargain prices), have gained recently popularity in India too. Till about two years ago, diners were, in fact, hard put to even pronounce the word &mdash;Degu&hellip; what?, wrinkling up their noses at a whiff or something bad. But today, chefs are increasingly presenting tasting menus (there, that&rsquo;s less of a tongue-twister, isn&rsquo;t it?) with aplomb, and hopefully there are enough takers for these.

Degustation bites

Haven't planned your vacation yet? Abhilasha Ojha tells you where to log on.

Summer of 2009

Arpad Elo&rsquo;s rating system initially sought to compare players across eras. Instead it has become the keystone of chess organisation. Titles, invitations and appearance fees are all benchmarked to rating.

CHESS #587

For a golfer, it is extremely necessary to look good, both on the course and off it. And Shiv Kapur loves to buy clothes. He rates Hugo Boss as one of his favourite brands. &ldquo;I love their clothes but there are too many brands to choose a favourite.&rdquo; But if he had to choose, he says, it would be a Hugo Boss T-shirt (starting at Rs 3,000) in which you will always find him. Kapur says he is extremely conscious of the clothes he wears and prides himself on his good taste.

Course in style

I didn&rsquo;t enjoy Rhonda Byrne&rsquo;s highly popular book The Secret. It was zealous and syrupy, and it undermined its wide-eyed wonder at the simple impact of positive thinking with an off-putting tendency to want to bend this alleged power of the universe towards the goal of making ever more money.

Happy V-Day

Anoothi Vishal meets Fortis mentor Harpal Singh to find out about his campaign that unites religion with the girl child.

Mentoring a sapling

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