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    This board game created by an Indian is probably the world&rsquo;s first on intellectual property rights. Name it.

The Strategist Quiz (#098)

    Who said: &ldquo;I expect the personal computer to become the kind of thing that people carry with them.

Answers to last week's quiz (#097)

As the downturn tightens its grip, consumers shy away from spending. Consumer confidence takes a beating in India and the world over.

Cautious and tightfisted

&ldquo;Hot town, summer in the city/ Back of my neck getting dirty and gritty&rdquo;, go the words of Lovin&rsquo; Spoonful&rsquo;s 1966 hit song. Back then summer was still innocent, and every day might end well: &ldquo;Cool town, evening in the city/ Dressing so fine and looking so pretty&rdquo;. Something strange has happened in the world of books this year: the bubbling tumult of new books and gathering trends, so visible last year, seems to have faded a little.

Summer in the city

Last week Bangalore was host to a unique promotion: the European Art of Taste (EAT), a campaign financed by the EU and Italy for a consortium of companies producing pasta, olive oil, cheese and wines. It was a week-long programme showcasing selected brands of member-companies.

Wining and dining

Barack Obama's pet Bo is on several wishlists. Abhilasha Ojha tells you what it takes to own one.

Having a dog&#39;s life

Prepare for the flash-the-flesh season with a quick buff and shine with summer ranges that most cosmetic brands are hardselling now. We don&rsquo;t have to tell you that during this season your makeup should be reduced to the minimum and that the accent should be on going au naturale. So don&rsquo;t hit the streets before you have mastered that no-makeup look &mdash; even with these must-have summer cosmetics.

Getting ready for a skin show

GERMAN MNC UEP, which sponsored the Anand-Kramnik title match had bid to organise and pick up the tab for the entire 2009-11 title cycle. Unfortunately negotiations with Fide have broken down. So, there will be a scramble for funding for what increasingly seems like a jinxed cycle.

CHESS #588

One of the great pities of the electronic age is that it has quietly marginalised, if not completely obviated, one of life&rsquo;s greatest pleasures: Revisiting old letters. I&rsquo;ve always been pathologically attached to every scrap of friendly writing that ever came my way. Among my most prized possessions are cartons and cartons of snail mail from the pre-internet age, as well as thousands of stored emails dating right from the early 1990s.

Postmark: Way back when

Chef Antonio Carluccio would rather shop for food than cook it, he tells Kishore Singh over a gargantuan meal.

The spice of his life

Ideas,&rdquo; the editor at the newspaper where I worked earlier would bellow each day. But when people did produce some as per the request nothing would pass muster. She was fussy about &ldquo;original&rdquo; ones, didn&rsquo;t possibly appreciate the world view that nothing is as such in god&rsquo;s kingdom, and fretted if one turned in something based on a party conversation or, horror, another publication&rsquo;s reportage, however obscure.

The ideas society

Noodle House is a Jumeirah brand, owned by the Dubai royals. It comes to India as The Tasty Tangles. Anoothi Vishal speaks to Roger Narula, CEO, Wadhawan Hospitality, the company that has brought the brand to India.

Casually Chinese

This book of conversations is the closest you'll come to probably knowing Lata Mangeshkar.

A singer's story

Amit Varma may be one of India&rsquo;s best-known bloggers but if there is one thing that he emphasies during the course of this interview, it is this: &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t want to be known as a blogger who has written a book.&rdquo; The last is, of course, true. The India Uncut writer has just come out with his first attempt at fiction, a novel called My Friend Sancho.

'I'll be able to deal with bad reviews'

The wonderful French film Ridicule (1996) follows the short career of a minor nobleman named Gr&eacute;goire Ponceludon de Malavoy at the pre-apocalyptic court of Louis XVI in Versailles. Like bees drawn to honey, the thousands of nobles of every degree massed there buzz for favour and advancement.

Talking heads

Among the many ways Bunti Bakshi might describe himself as, technocrat may not be something that trips easily off his tongue, yet that&rsquo;s exactly what he is, supplying original parts to Suzuki, even though he seems to spend an inordinately large part of his life in the Himalayas.

The fuss over linen curtains & other stories

It is difficult to say anything about Jatin Das without it seeming like a contradiction, though few would argue with the contention that he has more edges than most people, is fiercely independent, and though he can and does get into heated discussions, he would rather not talk about his paintings at all. &ldquo;There&rsquo;s too much intellectualising of art,&rdquo; he says, &ldquo;too much analysing.

Distinctions of form

Architect Renzo Piano&rsquo;s new $294 million Modern Wing for the cramped Art Institute of Chicago provides much-needed additional space and a flying carpet.

Flying carpet...

It is not bigger than the Swift, though it is taller overall. It shares the same platform as the Swift.

The 'FIVE STAR' small car

How many of you remember the movie Bullitt? Especially that famous chase scene, where Steve McQueen chases a bad guy in a Dodge Charger down the streets of San Francisco? Steve, being the hero, is in something equally quick and brutish &mdash; the Ford Mustang GT390. Eventually, the bad guy meets his demise when his car goes belly up into a petrol bunk and lights up in flames. That one scene defined the way the Mustang was always perceived &mdash; a hero car for the masses.

Stang operation

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