When the Fashion Design Council of India (FDCI)was born almost 10 years ago or so, it did so amidst intense wrangling.

It`s ego, not biz sense

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Some time ago, one of our Business Standard Weekend covers focused on the death of music channels.

A revolution in sound

Rajeev Khandelwal talks to Abhilasha Ojha about his switch from television and the unusual launch vehicle that he chose to enter Hindi filmdom.

From lover boy to unlikely winner

Indian customers may be uncomfortable with edgy or over-the-top design, but it is slowly creeping into the restaurant space.

Appetite for design

&nbsp;A book on Chameli Ramachandran is a celebration of her art. 
&nbsp;Sometimes you don't notice things right under your nose, or at least because you're looking elsewhere  like at A Ramachandran's gigantic canvases of lotuses  you fail to see another, altogether diminutive artist, his Chinese wife Chameli Ramachandran's works, also including lotuses, that might have bloomed earlier had someone taken cognizance of them.

Folios of an artist

The total value of the belts market in urban India for the youth is estimated at Rs 840 crore a year.

KIT: The market for leather look-alike belts in India

BREAKING THE BAMBOO CEILING: CAREER STRATEGIES FOR ASIANS Author: Jane Hyun Publisher: Harper Collins Price: Rs 690 ISBN: 0060731222.

The top 10 business bestsellers

    A company came out with advertisements in 2004 to take credit for the turnaround performance of a company it took over. The ad copy read: _______ has gone from BIFR to BSE-30. Name both the companies.

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<LI>Name the brand with which the following trademarked phrases are associated: Smart Planet, Smart Sleep, Smart Space and Smart Basics? Ginger Hotels.

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Acclaimed niche films and docus are now more accessible, showing in theatres and on the TV.

World cinema in the multiplex

Crafts of India come together with modern design at the Petro IT corporate office in Gurgaon.

Craft for everyday living

Anoothi Vishal talks to artist Seema Kohli about religion, philosophy and the Gita, the inspiration behind the artist's latest body of work.

Painting in progress

&nbsp;The 2008 Whitney Biennale was a snapshot of America. At the end of a day devoted to seeing the relatively small spread, there is a difficult question left to answer: When was the last time that a major art event was so angst ridden and reflective? This show doesn't oscillate as sharply between anger and apology as global audiences have come to expect from the liberal American public.

Resistance art

&nbsp;The Fiesta goes all sporty on us. 
&nbsp;They're a good bunch, the Aussies.

The S word

&nbsp;The Bajaj Pulsar 220 DTS-Fi gets the top motorcycle honour for 2008. 
&nbsp;Abraham Joseph has collected a lot of awards this year.

Won that!

I want to purchase a luxury sedan running on diesel and my budget is Rs 35 lakh.

Luxurious drive

On a recent trip to Beijing, I was intrigued with a vegetarian dish of what appeared to be noodles, but which were made with vegetables mixed with flour.

Eating Chinese, the Indian way

&nbsp;More and more Indians are travelling abroad to play or watch sporting events. And tourism boards are facilitating them with cut-price packages.

Sporting holidays

We are in a market that is not behaving the way most investors have seen it acting in the last five years.

Anatomy of bear markets

Anyone who uses a laptop knows that the touchpad, though ingenious, is hardly a good substitute for the standard computer mouse.

At the click of a mouse

One of my favourite comic books is Asterix in Switzerland, in which all the Swiss characters have neat ginger moustaches and wander about with cleaning implements, dusting off everything including the people they're talking to.

Switzerland remixed

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