Anoothi Vishal checks out the new art stores that stock memorabilia and merchandise lines with your favourite works reproduced on them.

Atul Dodiya on a coaster

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Take &lsquo;pride&rsquo; in the new BMW 7 Series.

Seventh deadly sin

I am working in Saudi Arabia and will be home on vacation in a month. I am looking for a car which is safe, handles well and looks good. I plan to cover 10,000 km in the car by going on long drives, especially to hill stations. The rest of the time the car will be used by my family within city limits. I have short-listed the Suzuki Swift VDi, Ford Fusion and the Hyundai Getz CRDi. I am also thinking of a used Tata Safari or a Mahindra Scorpio or Bolero.

Holiday purchase

The sexy bathroom might be its showstopper, but this suite doesn't stint on other luxuries.

Draw the Presidential bath

Pare down an artist to his essentials and you&rsquo;re left with very little: an idea, some tools, colour. The articulation of this is the sum of their work, but often artists speak more volubly than their canvases, something you can&rsquo;t accuse Baroda-based Jeram Patel of. Jeram Bhai, at 78, is still startlingly spare in his oratory, just as he is sparse in his work, keening in on the idea so sharply, nothing else matters.

Nature, sans colour

Arts consultant, advisor and curator Alka Pande is known for her thorough research, which is why the loose weave in Indian Art is so astonishing. It makes you wonder at the inclusion of &ldquo;forensic&rdquo; or &ldquo;crime scene&rdquo; photography in a chapter on photography &mdash; this is, after all, a book on art &mdash; almost as much as her casual reference to the miniature painting &ldquo;schools of Mewar, Udaipur or Jaipur&rdquo; &mdash; Mewar and Udaipur are the same place, and it should be Amber, not Jaipur &mdash; as the inclusion of tribal crafts such as dhurrie weaving, metalware or Firozabad glassware.

Missing the wood for the trees

    This Indian entrepreneur hit upon the idea to start a low-cost airline when he was travelling from Johannesburg to Cape Town in a flight operated by Kalula.com.

Answers to last week&#39s quiz (#084)

    This company&rsquo;s website greets you with the tag line: &ldquo;Faster. Further. Freer &mdash; Our Message in a Bottle.&rdquo; These are its leading principles on the basis of which it runs its business. Name it.

The Strategist Quiz (#085)

The Indian health care market is $40 billion (Rs 1,94,246 crore).

KIT: The health care market in India

Indigo's obsession for details when it comes to cutting flab is paying rich dividends to the low-cost carrier.

Fine strokes

Companies get a lot of advice on the subject. Which decision-making disciplines really make a difference?.

How companies make good decisions

MANAGEMENT SCHOOL days have been some of the most productive in terms of establishing a strong foundation to my corporate learning journey. From expectation and relationship management to team-building and issues management, I saw a foundation being cemented for a quality corporate life &mdash; more often than not extending to the social life.

The importance of intuition

The slowdown came down like a pile of bricks on Indian companies and their leaders. Most of them had little experience of handling a meltdown of this scale. As a result, they are still groping for answers.

&#39;India lacks the experience to handle downturns&#39;

How LG Electronics plans to more than double its share in the handsets market.

How LG plans to double handsets mkt share

Nisha Susan, a journalist with Tehelka, is discovering the other side of being in the news.

Yes, we can?

Despite the number of recipe books that continue to be churned out every year, food writing in India is a grossly underrepresented genre.

Nothing 'authentic'

Regular readers of this column may remember how my mother perfidiously sold my ancient yellow Maruti Zen, named Peeli, while I was out of the country. She claimed that Peeli was no longer roadworthy, but even though she convinced me to move on to a new vehicle, I&rsquo;d refused to let her sell Peeli, for sentimental reasons like psychosis. So she waited until I was safely in Spain before throwing her to the wolves.

We just parked our Baby Boss

Rrishi Raote cooks up a list of gadgets that will have your breakfast ready at the press of a button.

Breakfast at the press of a button

The super-tournament at Linares starts on Wednesday. The Kamsky-Topalov match is also due to begin on Tuesday in Sofia. Meanwhile, Peter Svidler won the tough Gibraltar Open and Alexander Onischuk won the even stronger Moscow Open. Open Swisses demand a different style of play and preparation from the &ldquo;win with white, draw with black&rdquo; strategy that prevails in round robins.

CHESS #576

T wo ongoing developments &mdash; the first being the moralistic chest-beating that&rsquo;s taking place in the name of &ldquo;safeguarding Indian culture&rdquo; as Valentine&rsquo;s Day approaches, the second involving protests by hairdressers&rsquo; unions against the word &ldquo;barber&rdquo; in the title of the film Billu Barber &mdash; combine to make for an interesting contrast.

Hair managers and pink slips

You can&rsquo;t really get too far from the pink-and-red-shaped hearts this season, we&rsquo;re afraid. So you might as well give in to the romance in the air. Not sure of how and what to do this Valentines&rsquo; Day? Here is a guide to where to eat, go and pick up.

V for ....

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