Aleksej Aleksandrov of Belarus won section A of the 11th Parsvnath International with 8 from 10 games. He was followed by Marat Dzumaev, Henrik Teske and Vaibhav Suri who all managed 7.5. Untitled 13-year-old Murali Karthikeyan scored his first GM norm. IM K Rathnakaran made his second GM norm and Rakesh Kulkarni made an IM norm.

Chess (#1028)

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The avalanche began last evening in New Delhi &mdash; more art shows and curated events than had possibly opened in as many weeks, all clustered together, making it impossible, given the city&rsquo;s spread and traffic, to attend a launch or talk or two. But what was driving this action? It wasn&rsquo;t as though the new year had opened with a lot of promise, so it had to be the imminent closeness of the India Art Fair that was the catalyst. With all the action at the NSIC grounds during those four days, galleries and museums appeared keen to take the lead on the offsite action, and if this weekend was busy, you can expect the coming one to go into overload mode.

Riding out the bad times 

I am planning to buy a car within a budget of Rs 30 lakh. I have considered the Audi A4 and Q5, but I have heard that the Mercedes-Benz C-Class is a good option as well. I like Audi, and I haven&rsquo;t really driven the C-Class. However, I read reviews online that state that the injectors on Audis wear out after 50,000 km.

Three for all

Every January, many people start working out, hoping to lose weight. But as studies attest, exercise often produces little or no weight loss &mdash; and even weight gain &mdash; and resolutions are soon abandoned. But new science suggests that if you stick with the right kind of exercise, you may change how your body interacts with food. It&rsquo;s more than a matter of burning calories; exercise also affects hormones.

Fine-tune your appetite

In its right as a story about the complicated relationship between two co-workers, Inkaar does not disappoint. Viewers, however, would be well advised to drop expectations of a social discourse on the ills of sexual harassment in the workplace.

Trouble at work

Nemai Ghosh&rsquo;s book of photographs of his mentor Satyajit Ray, of film &ldquo;stills&rdquo; of Ray&rsquo;s movie productions with some photographs of other filmmakers thrown in for good measure, is not only an incredible, nostalgic journey into the film world of the &rsquo;70s and &rsquo;80s but also a testament to the craft and perseverance of Ghosh himself. This 360-page book, with as many pictures within it, has images from the time that Ghosh took up photography at the age of 33 &mdash; when he first visited and photographed the sets of Ray&rsquo;s film Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne &mdash; until as recently as 2006, when he shot on the sets of Sandip Ray&rsquo;s Bankubabur Bandhu.

Satyajit through the looking glass

Want to savour a cup of home-brewed coffee, admired across the world, that has been delivered to your doorstep? Kunal Ross&rsquo;s Theindianbean.com, a portal for selling coffee online, offers just that. Ross believes that India has a treasure trove of coffee plantations, yet people hardly get to enjoy the produce.

Is promoting Indian coffee online

Last year, a jersey worn by American baseball legend Babe Ruth went under the hammer. The final bid? A cool $4.4 million, making it the most expensive memorabilia sold. But this is par for the course in the US, which has a highly developed, though fragmented, celebrity memorabilia market. The Indian celebrity merchandise market, in contrast, is virtually non-existent &mdash; so far, the only avenues have been the occasional auction, or fund-raiser for charity.

Signed by the Greats

The oldest (the first edition started way back in 1907) and the largest auto show on the planet, Detroit is back to becoming relevant on the global stage. In the last few years, most launches were US-centric, driven primarily by the fact that emerging markets like the BRIC nations was where the action was.

Motown rocks

Pulling a prank can be dangerous business as two Australian RJs found out last month.

Is everyone laughing?

Season one of the Indian American football league passed by mostly unnoticed.

Bend it like the Americans

A cheetal doe and her two young ones graze peacefully in the twilight. Two langurs chatter overhead. Are they gossiping about the mother-cub bear duo that frequents this area? We can&rsquo;t tell. Then, somewhere in the foliage, the alarmed whoop of a cheetal breaks the silence. Has it felt the presence of a big cat? Goosebumps prickle my skin as I mull over all this drama in the jungle, sipping mulled wine around a roaring bonfire and playing charades on Christmas.

At home in the jungle

Here is a hypothetical exercise. Suppose we are tasked with mapping mythologies of the world on an atlas. Can you guess the outcome? The picture emerging finally is expected to be far more complicated than expected. We would end up with a criss-cross of arrows coursing through multiple continents. It would be as difficult to assign a nationality to these stories as it would be to date their origins.

Many cultures, one story?

A few days ago, when Ankur Bhatia, the 39-year-old executive director of Delhi-based Bird Group, rang up Gyan Sharma to inquire about the state of his 1962 Mercedes 190 Ponton &mdash; a prized possession which Bhatia had acquired in 2007 &mdash; Sharma knew he needed to wrap up his work quickly. The classic model, along with a 1972 Volkswagen Voyager Beetle, is currently under restoration at Sharma&rsquo;s workshop opposite Bird Group&rsquo;s sprawling office in Connaught Place in Delhi.

The vintage man

For Sabeer Bhatia, co-founder of Hotmail, one of the first free e-mail services in the world, Chennai is special. Twenty-four years ago, heâ€™d come to the city to get a student visa to the United States of America. He was in the city again late last month to open a 250-seat facility for his company, AMP Technologies, a cloud-based real-estate asset management platform.

Life after Hotmail

On January 11, SpiceJet put for sale 1 million tickets at Rs 2,013 apiece (all inclusive). The window of discount would stay open for 72 hours, and was meant to attract traffic during the lean season (March to June). On a normal day, the airline would sell up to 45,000 tickets; but on those three days, it sold 700,000 tickets. Such was the rush that travel portals were left gasping for breath. Some had to suspend sales for a while. Consumer anger spilled over to the social media.

Know the Marans

Last year, Cadbury created a massive, award-winning activation in Kolkata in an effort to get Bengalis to try chocolate. Now the brand is back, making an even bigger attempt to enter Bengali hearts and minds, reports afaqs.com.

Cadbury weds Mishti

Chinatown was teeming with people. But I had a single mission. Eliminate my target and make a quick getaway.

Stealth & brains over brawn

Despite security and cost issues, IT managers are keen on investing in virtualised data centres.

Data centre for cloud deployment

    The Late Dewang Mehta, one of the most dynamic President&rsquo;s of NASSCOM.

Answers to last week's quiz (#288)

    When IBM and Ford announced casual work days, allowing employees to wear business casual attire, which brand ran congratulatory ads in the Wall Street Journal and USA today? This brand credits itself of inventing the concept of casual wear.

The Strategist Quiz (#289)

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