Chocolate, wine and caviar massages are the new rage, finds Abhilasha Ojha, as she checks out some new spa treatments.

Indulge and rejuvenate

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Ever since the days of Super Nintendo, Street Fighter has been one of the most popular games with avid gamers. Even though other figthing games like Tekken have been a rage, nothing comes close to the thrilling action of Street Fighter.

Games people play

Levon Aronyan pulled off his second successive Melody Amber title. The Armenian GM won the &curren;216,000 rapid-blindfold with 14 points from 22 games. Anand and Kramnik tied for second with 13.5. Magnus Carlsen was 4th with 13 with Morozevich trailing a distant fifth on 11. Everyone else &mdash; Topalov, Karjakin, Kamsky, Leko, Ivanchuk, Radjabov and Wang &mdash; logged minus scores.

CHESS #581

The wonderful thing about not having children is that you don&rsquo;t have children. This means that you can keep your breakables where they are, swear as much as you like, and call a boiled egg and cigarette &lsquo;lunch&rsquo;. You can sleep right through the night (or day), never touch anyone&rsquo;s poop but your own, and walk out of the house in the morning and decide not to come back for a month.

Dog days

Like a million other Mumbaikars, Meera Sanyal too watched the horror of 26/11 unfold on her television screen &mdash; and although she was in New Delhi instead of her home in Malabar Hill in Mumbai, she was horrified.

Banking on politics

This isn&rsquo;t a typical Neterati entry, but the animated feature film I&rsquo;m writing about has had a particularly vibrant life on the Internet &mdash; from its inception as a series of musical sequences a few years ago to its recent completion and availability as a free download (it&rsquo;s been released under a Creative Commons Share Alike licence, meaning anyone can copy it). The film&rsquo;s creator, the American cartoonist and animator Nina Paley (http://blog.ninapaley.

Ramayana to chill the blues

We are opening our salon at The Aman New Delhi. I&rsquo;m really excited about the entire venture.

Introducing luxury hairdressing

Prince-turned-politician Madhavrao Scindia died in an air crash in 2001 and left a promising career unfulfilled. In this new biography, journalists Vir Sanghvi and Namita Bhandare write of the man who lived a complex, full but short life. Extracts from the book.

Mister Maharaja

Most days I wish I was a British pound coin instead of an African girl.&rdquo; begins The Other Hand, a narrative that grips you almost immediately. The story of a Nigerian girl &mdash; Little Bee is the name she assumes to escape mercenary killers in her own country, Nigeria &mdash; who finds her way to the UK as an illegal refugee, the book is written like a thriller but has the emotional depth and complexity of a classic.

A tragic tale written like a thriller

The Devil&rsquo;s Footprints is a classic Jekyll and Hyde story, without the physical transformation wrought in the original. It is set in the haunting background of the Scottish countryside, a template that offers immediate rewards to a writer of mystery, and Burnside exploits it to full effect here.

Ghosts of the past

Everyone from Tyeb Mehta to Husain has used animal forms.

Celebrating the humananimal

The Israel Museum, with some fascinating European art and Dead Sea scrolls, goes for a $100 million makeover.

Working between walls

Starting March 26, artist Gurdeep Singh&rsquo;s works are on display at the Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. The show, Un Betoken continues at Gallerie Nvya from April 4-30. This collection of abstracts is a symphony of brush-stroke, colour and formlessness. There is a playful use of colour in the compositions. One of the highlights is the interplay between a musician and his instrument.

Of folklore and icons

I have been driving a Maruti 800 for the last 12 years and am looking to change my vehicle. I&rsquo;m looking to upgrade to a bigger car (not hatchback), that is economical to run as well. My budget is Rs 5-5.5 lakh. My average monthly driving is 2,000 km in addition to the occasional highway run. Kindly advise.

From small to big

Cash-strapped Tata Motors is using unconventional tools to promote the car.

The making of brand Nano

    Name the company and the strategic planning tool it used that envisions multiple future events and help develop plans to respond to them. It helped this company navigate the oil shock of the 1970s.

Answers to last week&#39s quiz (#091)

Companies, and their CFOs, may have to adapt more radically to the downturn than they now expect.

The CFO&#39;s role in navigating the downturn

The online search giant has tweaked its global strategy for India with a mix of online, offline and mobile offerings.

Will Google get it  right?

One of the key challenges facing the hospitality sector is the high rate of taxes. In Delhi, for instance, there is a 12.5 per cent luxury tax as well as a 12 per cent VAT on food and beverages.

KIT: The hospitality sector in India

    Sitting at his home office in the Indian subcontinent, he used a Kaypro computer and a modem to communicate with his contact in Los Angeles while working on a movie script in the mid-80s. Name him.

The Strategist Quiz (#092)

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